Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people in Academia [was Re:Caryatic]

In a message dated 7/21/01 7:06:02 PM, scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

<< I told you guys a year or so ago about another academic

response:  "how arrogant!"   A department colleague

did not want to believe that I was doing anything as

complicated as Tolkien.  How could I be like Tolkien?

There must be some flaw.   My more eccentric department

colleague loved the idea, and quoted me passages from

James Joyce.  Only my linguist friends at the UR have

been open to the idea.  You may recall Doug

Ball who was briefly on CONLANG.  I shared a

private tutorial with a linguistics professor in which

Doug expanded his language Skerre.  I'd love to teach

a class on the invention of languages, and since we have

inter-department clusters, here, we could cross-list it

with English and Linguistics.  YES! >>

Depending on where "here" is, maybe you can swing up to Berkeley sometime
spring semester and teach a few lessons in my class.  :)

-David