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

From:Sheets, Jeff <jsheets@...>
Date:Monday, October 5, 1998, 14:17
English.  I have tried learning Latin, French, Romanian, Russian, and a
small bit of Cherokee.  I have failed miserably.  Therefore I create my
languages.

> ---------- > From: Sally Caves[SMTP:scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET] > Reply To: Constructed Languages List > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 1998 7:42 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG > Subject: FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs. Sorry this is the last > of the survey... > > 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 > > > On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Nik Taylor wrote: > > > Mia Soderquist wrote: > > > Also, I don't know if other bilingual > > > people experience this, but I feel differently about expressing > things > > > in different languages. > > > > What are you bilingual in? > > > > I've read that some bilingual people are incapable of talking about > > certain things in one language or the other. > > <I accidentally erased Nik's signature.> ;-) > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Sally Caves > scaves@frontiernet.net > http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >