Re: The magic of conlang (was: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Thanks to conlanging and the eye and ear it brought me, I
> discovered a world of originality in my own language, a world that I hadn't
> even suspected to exist! Since then, I look at my native tongue with new
> eyes, and I discover new things everyday!
Who would have thought, living in the heartland of Europe, that he spoke an
exotic polysynthetic language with free word order and grammatical prefixes!

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