Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> Gary Shannon wrote:
> > Not so strange, really.  When I was a kid I used to love to draw maps of
> > imaginarey lands.  I still admire nicely done works of concartography.
>
> Me too.  In fact, I have a roughly-drawn, periodically revised, map of
> the Continent (the one continent on Terra Nova).  I wonder if many other
> conlangers/conculturers were the same way?
>
I'd forgotten, and now I'm remembering in flashes... Yes,
when I was a kid I had a neighbour and we had invented
some imaginary countries... We drew the frontiers and the
big cities, and some rivers and such, and then we played,
"invading" countries, holding diplomatic conventions,
accumulating missils and so on :( Each country had different
currencies and languages, and we kept statistics of
cash flow, population, etc. (in a very rough manner, of
course). After a time we did it all the time, and our
parents began to worry a bit, I think -- anyway, then we
stopped gradually, when we became "too grown-up" for such
games.

The language issue didn't pop up, usually, except in the
names of the countries and the big cities, which had some
consistency as regarding their phonetical structures...
After that time, I think, I began writing short stories
and creating words for them. I was engaged into this years
later, when I learned about Conlang; I didn't have Internet
access, but when I got it, subscribing was one of the first
things I did.


--Pablo Flores