> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Sai Emrys
> How did you find out that there were other conlangers?
I would have to say 10-12 years ago when I started browsing the net
for information on various languages including the few conlangs I'd
already heard of. Those being the most well known auxlangs:
Esperanto, Interlingua and Ido.
> How did you find out that it was called "conlanging", or find any
of
> the online resources in general?
Google, or whatever the search-engine du-jour was at the time.
> How could that be made easier - so that conlangers who think
they're
> The Only Ones (didn't the majority of us start out that way?) can
> easily be connected to the rest of us, have more resources at
their
> disposal, etc.
Can't offer too much here. I think Langmaker.com does a good job of
cataloging conlangs, but I don't know of any really good ways to
draw people in without inve$ting in adverti$ing.
> Basically, I'd like to improve the reaching-out that we do, but
I'm
> not sure how to go about it. Even using the term 'conlanger' is
> something that's community-internal. Once you know a few
resources,
> the rest are relatively easy to find - it's that initial step of
> realizing that there might even *be* something out there, and
finding
> it, that is difficult.
Maybe getting links or banners posted on sites dedicated to some of
the more popular conlangs like sites dedicated to Klingon or
Tolkien's languages. There are also a couple of conlang webrings
out there. Of course, this all assumes you have some type of site to
bring them to.