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

I took up the guitar when I was about 15, and changed almost overnight.

Music's an intro into ordinary life for someone as abstracted as I was back
then.  Significantly I also started reading SF and Fantasy at about the same
time.

Wesley Parish

On Wednesday 23 April 2003 03:31 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:53:33 -0400, Harald Stoiber <hstoiber@...>
>
> wrote:
> >Up to the age of 16 I was a hard-core techie like Andrew Nowicki seems
> >to be. Then music stepped in my life, and still later languages did. It
> >started with writing poems and evolved steadily and consequently. There
> >is no substitute for creativity. At 16 it started and now, ten years
> >later, I see that it wasn't just a temporary mood - it was a big and
> >heavy switch that moved from "off" to "on". It was a change of life
> >style which I did neither forsee nor believe when I created my first
> >own piece of art (which was music in my case).
>
> It's interesting how many conlangers seem to have some interest in music. I
> started writing music pretty much around the same time I started
> conlanging, in the late 1970's. Over the years, I've had big gaps where I
> haven't done anything with music or conlangs, but I always come back to
> them in the long run. My interest in music and languages goes back as far
> as I can remember. Sesame Street's "Canta una canción" may have been an
> early influence.
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