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> A. PROFESSION, DEMOGRAPHICS, INCLINATION:
>
> 1. Who are you, and what is the name of your
> invented language or languages? Pseudonyms allowed.
> (Are you using one? asked "Sally Caves")
The Sock, Heefahoshaj is the main one, but I have
hordes of minor ones.
>
> *2. Are you new to the Lunatic Survey or have you
> filled out a version of this survey before?
New
>
> 3. Do you have a website for you language/world(s)?
> If so, please list the URL address.
No
>
> 4. What is your email address? name at hostsite dot
> whatever.
arcanesock@yahoo.com
>
> 5. What is your age? (vague answers allowed, but it
> is an important demographic)
16 going on 17
>
> 6. What is your gender?
Male
>
> 7. What is your nationality? Where do you live now?
Merkin. USA
>
> 8. What is your native language?
English
>
> 9. What natural languages foreign to you have you
> studied or do you speak?
Studied Spanish, studying Japanese in spare time
>
> 10. What is your level of education? i.e., your
> highest degree achieved or sought?
I'm a junior in HS
>
> 11. What is your profession? Are you a professional
> linguist? If so, what also makes you a conlanger?
Student, though I do work.
>
> 13. If you are a student, what is your major or your
> area of study?
Er... High School doesn't allow majors.
>
> 14. How long have you been developing your invented
> language(s)?
Heefahoshaj nearly a year now, the rest a little more
or less, depending.
>
> 15. At what age did you first start inventing a
> language? Can you briefly describe your early
> efforts?
Freshman year, but I didn't remember it. My first
language that I remember working on is Sidhe /sid.he/,
and had a habital aspect, as well as subject-object
pronouns, which was a little interesting for a first
lang. Got the habitual idea from AAVE
>
> 16. What drew you to start inventing a language
> and/or constructed world? What was the inspiration?
A dream I had of a beautiful city.
>
> 17. Did you start inventing before you had heard of
> the list or after? Before you had heard of Esperanto
> or Tolkien? (I name the two most common
> inspirations)
Before both, though my reading of Tolkien did heavily
influence my conworld
>
> 18. Tolkien calls it a "shy art" and a "secret
> vice"; but that was before the Internet. How secret
> do you keep it from others outside this list for
> much the same reasons?
Not at all; I am very open about it.
>
> 19. Yaguello has called it "pathological,"
> influenced, unfortunately, by a lot of psychiatric
> writings such as _Le Schizo et la langue_. To what
> extent have you encountered such reactions by
> outsiders you had taken into your confidence?
They generally giggle about it for a while, or just
accept it as another one of my wierdnesses.
>
> *20. Do you consider it nerdy to be doing this? This
> is a term that gets tossed around a lot. Or actually
> sophisticated? Do you need to get a life, or is this
> your life? What is a life?
Oh yes, it's very nerdy, but I love it to death. Hey,
it took so long to get rid of my other life, why would
I want to get a new one?
>
> 21. There has been a connection noted between
> linguistic and musical ability. Are you musically
> inclined? Do you sing and/or play a musical
> instrument? Do you compose music?
Oh no. I am musically inept. Then again, my languages
aren't exactly the best in the universe, either...
>
> 22. There has been a connection noted between
> linguistic and mathematical ability. Are you
> mathematically inclined or inclined towards
> computing in any way?
Nope. I find math boring.
>
> 23. What other passions do you pursue that give you
> creative pleasure? (painting, drawing, sculpting,
> calligraphy, model-building, novel or story-writing,
> role-playing games, map-making, book-making, poetry,
> web-designing, star-gazing or other?)
role-playing games, drawing, writing.
>
>
>
> B. FEATURES OF YOUR INVENTION
>
> 1. Pick the best term for the invented language you
> are currently invested in: auxlang, artlang,
> engelang, loglang, lostlang, philosophical language,
> or "other." etc.
lostlang
>
> 2. Is your conlang a priori (devised from scratch)
> or a posteriori (based on an existing natural
> language or drawing from a language class such as
> Semitic)?
a priori
>
> 4. Do you have a script for your conlang? What is it
> called? Could you provide me at a later date with a
> sample of it? Is it on Langmaker's "neography"
> site?
No to all... as of now.
>
> 5. Briefly describe the outlines of your invented
> language (syntactical structure--VO, OV, etc.; class
> or type--analytic, synthetic, agglutinating,
> incorporative, accusative, ergative, active,
> trigger, other, combinations, etc.), noting what you
> have done with it that is innovative in your
> opinion.
VO, agglutinative, accusiative, trying to make it
polysynthetic and incorporative... and I rather think
my gender system is nice, along with the realis/
irrealis divide
>
> 7. How extensive would you say your invented
> language is, now? How big the vocabulary? Do you
> provide a vocabulary list or taxonomy on your
> website if you have one?
Eech, not very big. I keep getting distracted by other
langs.
>
> 8. How do you build vocabulary? Some people pull
> words out of the air; others build up a base of root
> words and affixes. Many do both.
A mix of the two. Ish. Mainly the pulling out of the
air.
>
> 3. Does a constructed world accompany your
> invention(s)? What is it called?
No, not this one.
>
> *9. Has your language and conworld ever served in a
> role-playing game or a world shared by other
> conlangers?
Yes! I have several like that, most of which are in
rehaul status.
>
> *10. Briefly describe your conculture (is it within
> the bounds of this world? on another world, etc.?)
See the lostlang list.
>
> *11. Are the beings who speak your invented language
> human or alien? If alien, what features have you
> given the language to make it alien or how have you
> restricted or expanded its phonology? vocabulary?
Human, Native Americans from Texas.
>
> 12. What do you write in it? Poems? chants?
> lullabyes? prayers? history? stories? recipes? Are
> any of these exhibited on your website?
... still working on the grammar...
>
> 13. Can you speak your conlang? Are you fluent in
> it? Is this a goal for you? Have you tried to teach
> it to an intimate? a companion animal? :)
No
>
> 14. Have you made any soundbytes of your language?
> Could you provide me at a later date with a sample
> of them?
No
>
> *15. If you use Roman script, how recognizably
> "phonetic" is your writing system? In other words,
> do you use unconventional letters or letter
> combinations to represent sounds? Why or why not?
> I'm thinking, of course, of Etabnannery, for those
> who remember it.
For Heefahoshaj, the orthography is meant to mimic the
English orthography, with many of the strangeties
thereof.
>
> 16. How many of you sing in your language and have
> invented songs for that purpose?
Not I.
>
> *17. How many of you, for entertainment or any other
> reason, resort to gibberish? (This is in response to
> Adrian Morgan's question in December). Does it give
> you ideas for conlanging? (Have you ever fooled
> anyone?) How many of you have sung gibberish?
Gibberish occasionally instead of cursing. /ArumpeSte/
is a very nice one, in my opinion
>
> *18. What on-line games do you play? (or devise?)
> Translations, Babel-text, Relays, etc.
None of my langs are developed enough for this.
>
> 19. Which do you prefer doing: devising phonology?
> script?
Phonology!
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-The Sock
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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