Re: Conlanging as a personal thing

 --- João Ricardo Oliveira skrzypszy:

> To most people here, conlanging seems to be a personal thing. Not only the
> process of creation, but also of learning. Do you usually learn to
> speak/write other people's conlangs?
To me it is definitely a personal thing, indeed. I enjoy the process of
building the mechanism of a language, of creating a phonology, a grammar, and
lots of words. Personally, I don't care much about learning my own conlangs.
Why should I? Writing texts in my conlangs is definitely not my favourite
activity, and I really don't mind using a word list when I do it. Besides,
there is no one I could communicate with in my own conlangs, and I wouldn't
encourage anybody to learn them.

And when it comes to learning other people's conlangs: I enjoy watching them,
but if I were to learn a new language, I would probably rather elect a natlang
(or even better: improve the languages that I know already).

But that's just my opinion. I know other people think differently. Philip
Newton, for example, is quite fluent in Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian
(correct?). There is even a special Yahoo! group for people who want to teach
their own or learn others' conlangs, called "conlangs-in-use".

On a sidenote: I don't know how many conlangs have ever reached the level of
full communicability, but I would be surprised if there were more than, say,
ten.

Jan

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