Re: Whether we're thin and rich

Started by Tom Weir in a comment about whether conlanging is a
rich European pastime for people with a lot of time on their hands.

I'm wondering whether you mean conlanging on the listserv or
"conlanging"
in general.  Tolkien ran into a fellow language maker in the army...
what do you want to bet that there are far more of us out there
than just log-in to the listserv?  We SEEM to be European and rich
(if you call owning a computer rich), and to have time on our hands,
but I say that anybody with a passion will make time for it if he
can.  I didn't have a computer for years and yet I toiled away at
Teonaht, keeping it secret from all but a few, thinking I was unique
in doing this.  A great many of us had already started doing this
before we met each other on the list.  Tom's assertions are deducted
by what he's met on the list.  What if the list only scratches the
surface of world conlangers?

Sally

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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > FFlores wrote:
> > > That's a bit harsh, you know... I don't have so much idle time
> > > in my hands (though I'd use it for conlanging if I had it),
> > > and I'm certainly not rich.
> >
> > Well, compared to much of the non-Western world we are!  All of us here
> > have computers, which is a lot more than many people can say.
> >
>
>         Not all of us! I won't have my computer before long, and even if I had
> one I'm not sure I could afford Internet. That's why I can only use the
> computers of my office (here in Eindhoven), or of my school (back in
> Paris), and why I'm generally uncontactable during the weekend.
>
> > > but it's almost our duty to be deviant from it. :)
> >
> > Hmm, that's an interesting way to look at it.  We're not weird, we're
> > just loyal to our duty!  ;-)
> >
>
>         Of course! Weirdness is necessary, or our world would be not far from
> Brave New World
>
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