Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet

 --- Maarten wrote:

> > This was until my father came in my room and asked me what I was doing
> > on the computer, and I told him, and he was ready to have me taken to a
> > psychiatrist.
That's funny! My own father was never surprised by my interest in languages,
although he never knew about my conlanging. He had some moderate interest in it
as well. After he died three years ago in a car accident, me and my brother had
to go through all his stuff. I found a lot about Latin, Greek, and Ancient
Egyptian. Besides, he had created some sort of secret script, inspired mostly
by Greek and Cyrillic, which I had great pleasure to decypher.

> I really don't understand this. Ok, conlanging is not something many people
> do, but I have seen stranger hobbies. My mum collects weird tea puts and
> unclothed teddy bears. She has over two hundred of the former, placed
> strategically all over the house, and several dozen of the latter, in the
> teddy bear corner which you can see directly as you enter the house.
Yes, but collecting weird stuff is somehow more generally accepted than
creating worlds and languages.

> I have never hidden my conlang activities and although most people are only
> politely interested when I mention it (but that happens with all of your
> hobbies), it has never caused me to be not taken seriously.
Same thing here...

> Actually, I have had more people calling me crazy for one of my other
> hobbies: skydiving.
Skydiving?! How come you're still alive? :)))

Jan

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"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought,
wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J.
Michael Straczynski

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