Re: Accidental Conlanging

>Anyone here engaged in accidental conlanging?
>
>I did while setting up a D&D campaign this summer.  I wanted to have
>some place names, that was all, but I wanted them to all have a
>similar "flavor".  Next thing I knew, I was developing grammar, roots,
>a rudimentary consonant mutation schema...
Yes! I have posted about this before. The Rhean language originally started
as a gibberish intended to "look all industrial and Eastern European" on
signs and stuff in the background of a comic I'm working on. So Rhean has
ALWAYS been about the "flavour"; I've mentioned that before too. There was
never supposed to be a language behind it, but eventually I started
tinkering around with rules, just for the sake of consistency. Now, a near-
full grammar and 2500 words later, I can say it's been quite an accident.

>Conlanging:  It's not a hobby, it's a mental illness.
Or some kind of bodily function.

M

"It started as a lump, but it grew."