An article titled "The Speed of Thought" noted remarkable similarities between Ithkuil and an imaginary language cooked up by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein for his novella "Gulf," from 1949.
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"[Codex Seraphinius] is an imaginary world with its own imaginary language," explain Kamil and Pa, the duo behind VolvoxLabs.
Luigi speaks an imaginary language, inadvertently slaps Queen Victoria in the face -- literally so -- and turns out to be an expert mixologist.
As H. Neville Davies argues, Godwin's imaginary language is more perfect than for instance More's in one aspect: it is spoken on the entire Moon and has not suffered from the Earthly dispersion of languages caused by the fall of the Tower of Babel.
In Rates Of Exchange, the imaginary Slakan language was largely invented over several years by the combined contributions of the polyglot participants of the council's annual Cambridge seminar of contemporary writing, of which Bradbury was the founder and, for many years, chairman.
Fairytale is a country of the mind made by imagery, by riddles and charms, spells and nonsense; it uses language to create imaginary structures in which language itself is supremely powerful: Rumpelstiltskin is undone when the heroine discovers his name.
Lot 129 is entitled "Autoportrait", a volume illustrated only with manuscript lines and in an imaginary script and language that is quite indecipherable.
New and abstract terrains, visual languages, and imaginary environments nod to interstellar travel and perhaps even science fiction in the intricate ink illustrations of musician and artist Brandon Locher.
