Age of Conlangers

On 12/18/02 8:32 PM, "Jake X" <starvingpoet@...> wrote:

> I think I am.  I joined when I was in eighth grade, but now I'm a freshman.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Funny twist:  when I saw the subject of this post, I read it as ³the age of
> conlangers² as in ³the age of enlightenment, innocence, or reason.
> 
> Well, perhaps there¹s something to that.  Does anyone else have the sense of
> some kind of intense pressure building up, heat and pressure, in the
> language-making zone of consciousness as a species, of which one symptom might
> be the spontaneous combustion of conlanging in ³the young² (but how many of us
> by survey started very early) brought into view and enabled by the WWW
> connection and ability to build a community, share ideas, find others, and
> generally get encouraged in one¹s ³madness?²  All leading perhaps‹and there¹s
> nothing but intuition to lead me on here‹some breakthrough in languaging, to
> some new means of so doing, to say nothing of new ends in sight.
> 
> I remain, feet firmly planted in mid-air,
> 
> Diana
>