Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet

BP Jonsson sekalge
>What really pisses me off is the insinuation that being lame *and*
having
>weird interests *and* being bad at casual conversation is worse than not
>being lame and having those other traits...
My pathology exactly. Perhaps it's symptomatic of conlanging in general?
By "lame", I take it that you mean socially and not physically.

I've given up on normal people. They can just... go away, I guess. To
facilitate this, I occasionally advertise my conlanging. It works half
the time and backfires too often. :))

>Since everybody is involved in language
>change, what's so d****ed strange about deliberate linguistic
creativity?

It's like having an artificial heart. Few realize that they are a part of
linguistic change, and conlanging is not exactly linguistic change. It's
much more direct and complete than that.

Laimes,
Wright