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

Hallo!

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:34:09 -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:

> How did you find out that there were other conlangers?
I don't know.  I have been messing around with fictional worlds
since I was ten or so; and at the same time, roughly, I first
heard of Esperanto.  A few years later, I read Tolkien and
thereby became acquainted with Quenya and Sindarin.  I never
really had the feeling that I was the only one.

> How did you find out that it was called "conlanging", or find any of
> the online resources in general?
I learned of the verb _to conlang_ only after I discovered, and
got involved with, the CONLANG list in mid-2000.  I happened to
stumble upom CONLANG when I started my Nur-ellen project (later
to become Albic) and searched the Net for useful resources.

> 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.
I don't really know.  But as usual, Google and Wikipedia are your
friends (see below).

> 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.
Yes; before I found CONLANG, I did not know the words _conlang_ and
_conlanger_.

>       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.
Yes.  However, asking Google for "artificial language" or "fictonal
language", you are directed to the highly useful Wikipedia articles
on these topics.  And from there, it's not a long way to CONLANG.

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