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

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Henry
> 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,...
A lot of my projects depend upon the mood I'm in at the time.
Sasxsek has definitely had the most attention but it also
requires a lot of home too.  My other conlangs usually sprout of
of an idea, and sometimes I'll play with the idea for a while
until I get bored then move on to something else  I've taken a
fairly long break from S:S: mainly because I was getting a bit
burned out working on it, but now I'm starting to get an urge to
continue it along with a couple of my other favorite projects
like Deini and the loglang without a name.