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De: Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Fecha: Jueves 24 de Septiembre de 1998 23:21
Asunto: Lunatic Survey
>THE SURVEY:
>
> 1) To what extent is your conlang an "intensely peersonal"
>pursuit--one that you don't often reveal to people other than conlangers?
I've found some resistance telling my parents what I do in my free time, and
as longer as they are the ones paying my studies...
As stated in my http://members.tripod.com/~chlewey/Akulm/Akulm.html page, my
first attemps for conlanging was crypting personal stuff, they are still
personal ones, after "there's no point" in what I'm doing.
> 2) If so, to what extent do you feel that the listserv "Conlang"
>has given you a _raison d'etre_ for
>
> a) pursuing your invented language
> b) making it public?
I would agree with David. This is a community. I can talk about what I
feel, what I know and what I want to know in this hobby. The more developed
language I've ever made is lost, I have many projects, many of them dead
(not death as I wrote in some other thread, not too good in English).
Currently three living projects: the Akulm/Fyrismonlaryn project, the "lots
of pronouns" project and I new one. I expect chating on them publically in
the list.
> 3) How many of you, in mentioning your conlang to an
>acquaintance, received a belittling reply? Condescension? Disapproval?
The "why inventing what's invented" answer...
> 4) How many of you are:
> b) undergraduates?
> 4a) What is your profession, or your desired profession?
Senior year in Electronics Engineering.
> 5) How many of you have invented a language because
> a) you are solely interested in language experiments
> and linguistics?
> i) for personal experiments...
Yes!
> ii) because you like participating in the
> development of an auxiliary language and its
> socio-political effects?
Something.
Besides the NGL project, I would dream on a world an AIL is feassible and
used... but I've found it dissapointing.
> b) you are interested in world-building
A big yes!
> i) for fiction
> iii) just for your own amusement?
Both fiction and own amusement. I've been inventing worlds much before
inventing languages.
> 5) How many of you take the time to learn another's conlang?
Little. Actually I like to read about them, about theirs structures and
grammar, but I have little patience for actually learning them.
> 6) How many of you are women?
Not me...
> 7) Who is lurking period? [these questions I don't expect
> public answers to--if any answers--but I ask it anyway
> to see what happens]
I posted the from my first or second day on the list...
> 8) Which of you would give me permission to (or object to) my
>mentioning your conlang and webpage (if any) at a convention, in an
>academic article? I'll protect names if so desired [as though this is
>writing pornography!-- now there's something]
No problem for me. The first reason I am on Internet is expressing myself
the way I cannot express myself personally.
(I don't think, by personal experience, Internet makes people less social.
It allows people who is shy, as me, express themselves in a way wouldn't be
possible before).
> 9) For how many of you is "exoticness" in your invented language
>and absolute must? How many of you pursue more familiar models... and
>why to both?
I would like the Fyrismonlaryn project to be alien... I wanted my RI.T.H.
project to be cryptical but natural and speakable... I've had some
regularized euroclones, simplifications of spelling or grammar projects (in
dead/hyberning phase), my other two live projects are experimental. All
exoticness that could be derived from this as longer as I do not want
another euroclone.
> 9) FINALLY: what is the appeal of an invented language for you?
>Wherein is its "sexiness"? Its spirituality? its sensuality? What keeps
>you at it? How does it benefit you? Does it harm you? heal you?
Actually I don't know.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Sally
>
Your welcome!
-- Carlos Th.