Re: Tell your conlang story!

> 1) How did you get in to conlanging? What was your inspiration?
    I got into from a deep interest in both poetry and science fiction.
At first I got into auxlangs like Glosa, but I am too much of a pragmaticist
and creative "rogue" to fit in with the auxlang crowd (who seem to lack the
depth of linguistic knowledge of the conlanging crowd as well as a tolerance
for humour and wackiness).

    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.



> 2) What is your purpose in creating languages? Is it a personal
> art, an anthropological experiment, a pasttime...?
    All of the above.
    And, for me, it is also "applied speculative linguistics" - especially
with my conlang Gomi.


> 3) How have people reacted when you tell them about it?
Bafflement, puzzlement, amusement.

> 4) Did conlanging lead you places you never expected it to
> take you?
Nearly everyday language leads me places unexpected.


"La poesie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
"La poesie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
                --- Blaise Cendrars