Re: How did you find out that there were other conlangers?

Well, first I knew about Tolkien (had Book of Lost Tales I), then I found
out about Esperanto from Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series, and then I
enjoyed LeGuin's Always Coming Home.  So I always knew there were important,
serious, authorial conlangers, but I certainly didn't dream of the Internet
and the sort of online community it could create.

I had looked into Esperanto by mail-in lessons (address found in the back
of a book at the library where I worked as a teenager; wow, those old days!),
but I think that what actually led me to conlangers was after all the
Internet, which I had heard about and was eager to get on the first day
I was at college.

At any rate, I remember being subscribed to paper versions of the Vorlin
newsletter and also one for lojban, and I have the impression (possibly
incorrect, or maybe true, especially given Conlang's birthdate) that this
was before I was on Conlang per se.  Vorlin was the first one that really
felt like somebody else was messing around the same way I was - it was the
first conlang I'd seen that was neither an auxlang (apologies if it was
meant to be :) nor a published-fiction conlang.

And then I found Conlang (probably through a post on some Usenet group).
And the rest is history.

Amanda

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