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

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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