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Re: Hello...

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Sunday, November 12, 2000, 22:01
David Stokes wrote:
> > Amensazhus liel ! > (Greeting in Diom.) > ("May the day be beautiful.") > > My name is David Stokes. I've been reading the list for a couple of > weeks now, but this is my first official post.
Ugh visenepi khinepi nom odapugho, Davidu. ("God looks well onto you, David.") Welcome to the list, David. It's always a pleasure to welcome a new member to the list.
> I've been conlanging for years, but not with much sustained effort. > About a year ago I discovered some of the sites on the web and was > inspired to drag out my old attempts and work on the again.
Precisely what happened to me, last February, 'cept I looked over my old attempts and decided to shelve them. They're not very useable, to say the least. I took a quick glance at Diom, it looks pretty nice. I'll look at it in more detail later on, but so far I like what I see. Unfortunately I don't have a website for Ajuk, the language I used above. I do have a 600K Word file about it, but it's pretty out of date. <snip>
> It is not finished, but then it sounds like conlangs are never finished.
Nope, never are. They can be usable, they can have a robust vocabulary, and the creator can stop working on them, but they are never *finished* - there's always something that can be added, changed, or made better.
> One thing I found when working on Diom is that I was too close to it. I > repeatedly found myself paralyzed when I'd come up with something, then > say "No, thats not right." and erase it. I was making it up so it would > seem like I could do anything I wanted. But it felt like there was an > already existing correct language out there and I was just trying to > find out what it was. Does this happen to the rest of you ?
Happens to me a lot - when I began work on Ajuk, it didn't feel like I was creating a language, it felt like I was discovering a language that had always been a part of me, somewhere in the back.
> So now I have decided to set Diom aside for a while and work on some > other projects. These will give me chance to try out some other ideas. > Then maybe when I go back to Diom I can progress a little more easily. I > will discuss these other projects in future posts.
That's a good idea, I stopped working on Ajuk temporarily, and started work on some other conlangs. They're coming along nicely, and they're very different from Ajuk. <snip>
> that yet). I had one intro linguistics class as an undergrad, and so may > be a bit naive about some points of linguistic theory.
Well, you're a head of me, I'm still in high school. -- Robert ICQ: 1668484 Disco Jesus