> MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM
> I started learning Esperanto in high school on my own around 1972.
> While in the army a friend of mine and I started creating our
> own language at
> work. It was based mostly on English and German, with lots
> of made up words.
> We didn't keep it up for very long.
> I read Tolkien's books a few years later, maybe 1980.
Sounds familar. I first encountered Esperanto when I found a
booklet called "Esperanto for Beginners" back around 1981, by that
time I'd already been playing with fonts and scripts on my computer.
It wasn't long before I had my own ideas for creating a language. I
never really documented anything, but I started out with what was
essentially a relexed Esperanto with mostly Low-Germanic vocabulary
and a phonology that can only be described as a cross between
Icelandic and Slavic. Pretty much the same one I'm using for my
personal language now, though the script is something fairly recent.
http://www.nutter.net/dana/language/deini_script.pdf