Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet

On Saturday 01 June 2002 07:59 am, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> To each his own, but for me, I experienced quite enough rejection as a kid
> that I'm perfectly willing to bend a little in order to be accepted. I
> don't see it as "being someone I'm not" (how could I?), but as think of it
> as thinking a bit about what aspects of myself I chose to display.
I do that also...but I see it as self-protection rather than as a way of
getting accepted.  This particularly applies to non-mainstream activities
like conlanging, programming just for fun (which I also have done), and
reading science books just for fun.  (Part of my current light :) reading
list is Alan Guth, _The Inflationary Universe_, which is not heavily
mathematical but goes into some recent notions about the interfaces
between quantum theories and the origin of the universe.)


Cian
http://www.self-owner.org/~cian/conlang/