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Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 13:39
En réponse à Irina Rempt <ira@...>:

> > > Do other people construct languages in their sleep? > > No, I just dream in Latin :-) I wish I'd dream in Valdyan! I do have > dreams set in Valdyas, or dreams in which I see the world I usually > live in through Valdyan eyes, but the language spoken is usually > either explicitly Dutch or English (I'm quite bilingual even in my > dreams) or some generic language that doesn't present itself as > anything in particular. >
Same for me, except that lately I've been dreaming both in French and in English, with the strange phenomenon of beginning to speak in French, and carry on in English without realizing when I change language! (and as the people I speak with in my dreams seem not to see the change, I'm the only one to get confused :)) ) As I'm using as much French as English in real life, and that I sometimes get confused, beginning to talk to someone in English instead of French, the fact that I dream in both languages is not strange. It's the fact that I jump from French to English without feeling the transition which is strange. I also spoke once Dutch in a dream, a better Dutch than I think I can ever reach! :)) Christophe.