Re: My girlfriend is a conlanger!

 --- Daniel Andreasson skrzypszy:

> 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.
Oh, that is very likely, especially if she joins the list. That's more or less
what happened to me: before the second half of 2001 it was something I used to
do only every once in a while, sometimes with breaks of many years.

> Then "Denica" perhaps. :)
Sounds nice. If pronounced [dEnitsa] it could be a Slavic language :) .

> Amusing story: [...]
LOL.

> > Should I call my next conlang "Mariniani"?
>
> What's your fiances name? Marina? Maria? Mariana?
Marina. Otherwise I would probably have written Mariani (in both cases :) ).

> The best thing about all this is that I can talk to
> someone about conlanging. It is a rather big hobby
> of mine, and not being able to share it with someone,
> not even your girlfriend, is a bit sad. You know how
> it is. "What are you doing?" "Oh, I'm just writing some
> stuff". You wouldn't say "I'm creating a language and
> I'm proud of it as well!" At least I wouldn't.)
Yeah, that's my situation :( . She can accept it as long as it doesn't swallow
too much of my time, but she has never shown even the slightest trace of
interest in it. That is a bit sad, indeed. When I was spending most of my time
writing music, she didn't like that either, but at least she knew what I was
doing, and why, and she liked (and performed!) the result. One of the reasons
for my temporary switch to conlanging was the fact that conlanging is much less
time-consuming and requires less isolation and concentration, but it hasn't
really helped, I'm afraid.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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