> Hi, I'd like to introduce myself to this group. My
> name is Quentin Read and I am a junior in highschool.
> I have dabbled in conlangs since 8th grade. The first
> one I came up with was Ysthol ("our language.") It
> was a bunch of bizarre-sounding words held together by
> an extremely sketchy grammar. I used it to taunt
> people incomprehensibly, but gave it up after a couple
> of weeks. In 10th grade, I came up with a new
> language: LanguFota. (Fota meaning fake, as in
> Faux.)It was a very unoriginal language, with almost
> all the words being derived from Spanish. I gave that
> one up after a while because it was boring and stale.
> In the past few months I have tried out a few ideas.
> I developed a language with all the roots randomly
> computer generated (has anyone else done that?) and am
> now working on 2 projects: SimIE, (Simplified
> Indo-European Language) and Ulm (a monosyllabic
> language).
>
> So far I have translated the Our Father, the 23rd
> Psalm, the first part of Genesis, etc. into them. I
> would like some advice about creating conlangs.
> So far I have madea basic vocabulary, the alphabet,
> the rules of grammar,and a few translations. What
> should I do now? I don't want this to fizzle out
> like my other ones. I need some direction. Also what
> are some basic, widely recognized texts I can
> translate besides biblical ones? How much
> does one have to do before the conlang is considered
> complete? Finally, where can I get fonts for
> characters I need? I would appreciate any
> advice.
> -Quentin Read
> Durham, North Carolina
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