Re: My girlfriend is a conlanger!

Erin Notagain wrote:

> I wish I could get one original idea. Meisteik is Russian and Spanish
> based. (And about every other language, for that matter, but those are the
> two main influences)
Do you have a website for Meisteik? I'm sure you do, but I
can't find any references to it in the archives. It would
be interesting to compare Meisteik to Coní.

> Hey, she doesn't happen to know either language, does she?
She knows Spanish quite well. She took Spanish in school as
the first language after English and studied it for six years.
And now she's taken two terms of Spanish at uni, so she speaks
it really well.

Russian is a Teach Yourself-thing for her. I'm not sure how
far she got, but she's not totally lost. She's not conversational
in it though, and I don't think she's ever been.

All in all, it's not surprising that those two languages are
her main inspirations.

Oh! And her language makes a distinction between unaspirated
and aspirated /f/! Whoa! :) There *are* natlangs out there that
does that, right? I mean, with ALF and all. :)

Daniel Andreasson

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