Re: promiscuity & fidelity (was: Re: The philosophical language fallacy (was Re: Evanescence of information (was Re: Going NOMAIL: Honeymoon))

On 7/8/08, And Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:

> Have any of the surveys of conlangers conducted on this list over the years
> looked at the quantity and longevity of our conlangs? Among us, there are
> And
> perhaps there are (tho I can't think of an example) fickle monogamists, who
> work on one language at a time but do sometimes abandon one language for
> another-- ah yes, Matt Pearson would be an example.
Since I first encountered Quenya and Noldorin in 1989, I've
created about 20 conlangs; the vast majority of which I worked
on for less than a year (many for less than a month)
before abandoning them.  Since 1998 when I started working on
gjâ-zym-byn, though, I've never gone more than six months
without doing some development work on it,
and in the last 4-5 years, probably never gone more than two
months without *using* the language; though during that time
I've created nine other conlangs, two of them tolerably well
developed and the other seven mere sketches.  So I reckon
by your classification I would be a fickle monagamist.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/fluency-survey.html
Conlang fluency survey -- there's still time to participate before
I analyze the results and write the article

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