Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

Hmmmmm....should I get into this?  Studying Glide, especially in the
psychedelic sphere, identified it as a branch of Elven languages, a far
branch.
And I'd like to hear from the Icelanders about the Elves, hmmmmm?

RR

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>wrote:

> 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.)
>
> ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
>