Re: Is conlang a generator of conlangers? or a su

I think for me, it was a mixture of fascination with Latin's infecltive
case system, and exposure to Tolkien's "Secret Vice" through a role
playing game based on Middle Earth.  After the Klingon Dictionary came
out, I bought a copy and really began feeling that conlanging was a
viable hobby.  To this day however I can't speak a word of Klingon.  I
just liked the Agglutinative nature of Klingon.  Now I've put all my
previous languages on hold, and am focusing on Tit'xka, and will be
until I get a full translation of Shakespeare's MacBeth completed.

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> From:         Mathias M. Lassailly[SMTP:lassailly@AOL.COM]
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> Sent:         Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:32 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Is conlang a generator of conlangers? or a su
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> > BTW, Sally, don't worry about asking all these questions about
> conlangers
> > and their experiences.  It's my experience that metalinguistics (or
> metastudies
> > in general) are usually just as interesting as the studies
> themselves.  Metaconlanging
> > is right up there, in my estimation, so keep asking those questions!
> I am very
> > interested in what's going on.
> >
> So am I. I want more answers from other conlangers. When I started
> conlanging, I had never read Tolkien (I read the Hobbit... only last
> year), I could hardly say 'hello' in German, I did not know anybody
> making a language, I was wondering why I was doing it and I was very
> affraid of it given my very stern family environment, so I've been
> thinking for years I was nuts until I realized that it had never
> impaired nor threatened anything in my life by then. Also discovering
> that one of my ancesters did the same without hiding made me more
> comfortable : it's all genes so how resist ? :-))
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