Re: My girlfriend is a conlanger!

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From: "Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work" <daniel.andreasson@...>

> The story seems to be that she isn't a very active conlanger
> and hasn't been for at least a year. She started out with a
> conculture when she was about 13 and did some conlanging back
> then. She then took it up in highschool. I think she gave up
> the project when she felt it didn't lead anywhere. And she was
> pretty alone in her endeavor. However, I'm hoping she will become
> much more an active conlanger now that she knows about me and
> the list.
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.  Where is this going? I thought.  I'm crazy to work on something
no one will ever see.  I have to write a novel, I thought.  (I've started
one; am about a third of the way through it).  Then I found CONLANG.  Here
is where one finds an audience.  So I wrote my article about Audience and
Conlanging.

Tell her that it's not a lost cause.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
http://www.frontiernet.net/~awen/bastgosp.html
http://www.media-culture.org.au/0003/languages.html

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