CHAT: Introduction

Hello everyone. I just this very minute joined the list (though I've
been reading the archivefor a while) so I thought I'd better introduce
myself. Well, I made my first attempt round about the second grade, but
nothing much came of it. I made a more serious attempt in the eighth
grade, though, like everyone's first serious "attempt"...
I am a high school student in the US, and, gees, I hope I don't grow out
of it.
I have noticed the gender "bias" on this list, but it seems that women
are generally discouraged from creative and intellectual pursuits
anyway, if not by society, then by themselves. I enjoy being an
exception.
Anyway, enough about me. I have two things:
First, I don't think it's fair to say one language is more beautiful
than another. There's something beautiful about all of them, whether it
be in euphony or lack of it, logic of system, or lack of it. Perhaps our
definition of beauty is too narrow.
Secondly, I am interested in your methods. What do you do when you get
an idea for a new language? Do you outline it all at once? Do you do
each section in detail before moving on to a new one? Do you ruminate on
it for a year before setting done the phonology? How do you keep track
of vocabulary, etc.?
Your humble neophyte (for now),
J. Barefoot


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