Re: FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs. Sorry this is the last of the survey...

Sally Caves wrote:
>
> This should have been on the survey as well.  Mea maxima culpa... I don't
> mean to tax your patience.  But an obvious question to ask is whether
> your interest in inventing languages has some congruence with your
> learning or having learned another natural language.  As for me, I went
> into languages because of a secret need to fuel the invention engine for
> Teonaht.  Other people may have gone into conlanging because they are
> bilingual.  Mia's remark stirred my curiosity as well.  How many of you
> conlangers know other languages, and what is the extent of that knowledge?
> Sally
>
The last 7 years of relative linguistic inactivity have seen the loss
of much of my ability with other languages.  I still read Spanish fairly
well, am regaining my Latin, Classical Nahuatl and Hopi and hope to
start working on Cahuilla soon.  On the other hand, French, Russian,
German, Portuguese, and Classical Yucatec Maya are gone, all except the
first probably for good.
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