Re: Is conlang a generator of conlangers? or a sustainer? (was: Oops!)

Sally Caves wrote:

> My other question:  how much was Tolkien an influence on your decision to
> invent a language?  I'm made curious by your story, Christophe, since
My impression has long been that there are 3 main external avenues to
conlanging; Tolkien, Heinlein's Speedtalk, and Sapir-Whorf's Linguistic
Relativity.  Tolkien had no influence on me to speak of because by the
time I had read him, I had already created my 1st conlang and the basis
of Nova had been worked out.  On the other hand, Heinlein and Sapir-
Whorf were both very important to me (and still are although I give
less credence to either).
Just my 2 cents,
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