Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

Hallo!

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:35:47 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> On 2009-04-03 Tony Harris wrote:
> > That very much describes my experience with my conlanging
> >  as well.  I often say Alurhsa feels like something that
> > exists in its fully developed form, and I am
> > "remembering" how to say things, or "discovering" it, or
> > documenting the grammar and usage. I find the same is
> > true of Tariatta now that I've done enough development on
> > that to get the feel of the language.
> >
>
> That's my experience too, and apparently was Tolkien's.
I feel exactly the same.  Whenever I find out something about
Old Albic, it feels more like *discovering* something that has
been there before rather than *inventing* it in the moment I
find it out.  It is as if I am rediscovering an old, lost
language that once actually was spoken.  The Commonwealth of
the Elves has become a reality to me - a secondary one, but
still a reality.  (Of course, I do not suffer the delusion
that it was as real as the primary world, but there *is* a
sense of reality to it.)

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