Re: My girlfriend is a conlanger!

Sally Caves wrote:
> It's not surprising how the list gives one a reason to continue Conlanging.
> I left Teonaht alone for years at a time (in Wales and Switzerland, I hadn't
> even brought my Teonaht notebooks).  I took it up again when I bought a
> house in Rochester.  But sometimes just working on it would make me sick to
> my stomach.
That's what happened to my original Tarníf.  When I created it, I
eagerly worked out grammar and vocabulary (of course, as I was rather
unknowledgeable about linguistics, both grammar and vocabulary were
largely English relexes) but then about halfway thru my organizing the
lexicon I just got sick of it.  I continued alphabetizing the lexicon,
but it had become work by that point.  It wasn't until I got the
internet and I came upon conlanging sites (I think that Mark
Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit was the first conlang site I
found, but I can't remember how I found it originally) that I was once
again bitten by the conlanging bug.  I ignored my original conlang (I
don't think I even had the notes in a convenient location) and created
new ones, however.

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