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Re: juvenalia (was: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs)

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 18:33
--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

> From: Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:12 +0000, R A Brown wrote: > > > deinx nxtxr wrote: > > >> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf > Of R A Brown
> > > > > > My interest in conlanging started when I first > encountered Esperanto > > > back around 1980-1981. > > > > My first attempt was way back in 1949. I had found two > French text books > > with _loads_ of grammar in them (they had belonged to > my mother
My first conlang was around 1952, as best I recall, and was inspired by Pig Latin. I called it Pig Russian (Igpaya Ussianruski). Rather than the one transform rule of Pig Latin, it had 26 different rules depending on the first letter of the original word. Being a trivial relex, it had no grammar of it's own. I discovered Esperanto around 1958 or 1959, but I didn't care for it. A few years later, in high school, I took Latin for a year and German for two years. That gave me exposure to non-English grammars and made my several unfinished conlangs less like a simple English relex. In college, majoring in computer science, I took more German, a semester of Russian, and two semesters of ASL sign language. While taking sign language I devised simple system of "pictographs" representing each sign as I learned it. Over the course of those two semesters my pictographic writing system became so complete, and I became so fluent in it that I took class notes easily in the conlang. Many years, and three children later, all my conlang notes were lost in a house fire, including around 2,000 file cards with my pictographic dictionary. From time to time I still go back to trying to reconstruct my lost pictographic conlang. Hence my PPP (periodic Pictographic Projects). --gary

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