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

Sai Emrys wrote:
> How did you find out that there were other conlangers?
When i was about 10 I had become interested in etymology and also
discovered my mother's French text books. The result was a conlang
which, essentially, had French grammar and an Old English vocabulary.
About a year later I discovered that a guy called Zamenhof had invented
a language called 'Esperanto' which was intended to be universal. I also
noticed that no one I know actually used Esperanto and wondered if there
had been something in the design that held it back - so my teenage years
saw something like two or three auxlang a year!

During that time I discovered that before Zamenhof, some called Schleyer
had also invented an auxlang and so had some called Jespersen. Also in
my mid teens I learnt Dutton's Speedwords by correspondence course. The
weaknesses in Speedwords' design became apparent & I decided to try
something along the same lines, but better   :)

I had also discovered Tolkien by that time.

But getting married & bringing up a family put conlanging on hold for
very many years. Then along came the personal computer and the Internet.
I browsed for 'artificial languages' or 'constructed languages' or some
such - this led me to find the Auxlang & Conlang lists, which I joined.

It was not until than that I'd met the terms 'conlang' or 'auxlang'. I
remained on both lists until the internecine Novial wars (different
revivers of Novial flaming one another) on Auxlang, at which point I
left, never to return. I am, of course, still here on Conlang    :)

> How did you find out that it was called "conlanging", or find any of
> the online resources in general?
Browsing.

Oh, and rather than use another email, I'll just add that no stories
have affected my conlanging.

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