Re: CHAT: Which world? Which culture?

>It is said that language is a mirror of its speaker's culture. In fact,
>this
>sounds so very true to me that I am even creating an entire world for
>my current conlang. On the other hand it seems to me that there are
>people on this list who don't create cultures when they create languages.
For me, yes & no.

My Palu f'Dule grew orignally from my interest romanized Japanese plus a
formalization of the shorthand I used when attending college. I later
adapted it to a non-human race resembling hedgehogs on a semi-arid planet.

My Bes Dis'z grew from trying op create a an agglutinating language from
monosyllabic CVC roots. I later adapted it to a different non-human race of
trilaterally symetric starfish.

My Nenshar came from an attempt to create a language based solely on objects
and their states as supposed by Vance in _The Languages of Pao_.

My latest doodling, Laafaah, came from needing a language for race of
serpent men for an RPG, some cultural aspects of which have been pre defined
by H.P. Lovercraft and Thomas Smith.

>So my question to those fellow conlangers would be: Which culture do
>you mirror into your conlangs? Your native one? Another existing culture
>that you deliberately choose? Or some ancient culture? Just curious...
>*smile*
My native culture as in the one in which I was born? Ugh, no. As in the
personal one which I've built during my life? Somewhat.

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