Re: CHAT: closet conlanging >> definitions?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>What I wanted to say is an odd thing I saw since I began unhiding that I
>was gay: my friends all accepted my homosexuality without a problem, with
>only some surprise, but when I say I'm a conlanger, they look at me as if I
>was mad! (even my gay friends do that). I find this situation quite weird.
>After the Gay Pride, shall we have a Conlanger Pride?
Perhaps!  I've encountered this situation as well, and while I'm completely
out as a gay man, I'm still fairly closeted about my conlanging.  Even
after having been on the conlang list for years and having shared my work
with countless people, I still often feel a knee-jerk sense of embarassment
and discomfort when revealing my conlanging inclinations to the uninitiated.
The Maligned Art, as Sally Caves puts it.

Matt.

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Matt Pearson
mpearson@ucla.edu
UCLA Linguistics Department
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
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