On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:53, Monica Byrne wrote:
> 1) How did you get in to conlanging? What was your inspiration?
I got my start in large part from reading Tolkien (mark down yet another
one :)). I also started taking Latin classes at just about the same
time: my first conlang was as much as anything else a reaction to the
then-perceived oddities of Latin grammar.
> 2) What is your purpose in creating languages? Is it a personal art,
> an anthropological experiment, a pasttime...?
Artlanging at first, then soon after also to support worldbuilding for
an RPG world I've run campaigns in off and on for several decades.
> 3) How have people reacted when you tell them about it?
I generally don't. :) Most of the people who know (off of this mailing
list) are RPGers who find out about it as part of the worldbuilding.
> 4) Did conlanging lead you places you never expected it to take you?
It led me to take a far greater look at how grammar and synax works. It
also led me to understand that phonetics is my least interest by far in
linguistics.
Cian Ross
cian@cox-internet.com
http://crlh.tzo.org/~cian/conlang/