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

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 3:28
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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