Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 7, 2003, 21:10 |
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En réponse à mna_vanantha <paul@...>:
> Well, hello to everyone here on the CONLANG list.
Welcome to the list!
And a big thank-you to
> Sally Caves, who's been so very kind and helpful to me since I first
> discovered the world of conlanging on the Internet, only two weeks
> ago.
>
Well, you've been well introduced by her :) .
> As Sally has just related to you, I started on my conlang, Hermetic,
> back in 1970, when I was 13 years old. For these past 33 years I've been
> working on my conlang pretty much in isolation. Then, two weeks ago this
> evening, I was just surfing around, and stumbled on the term "conlang."
> Which led on to all sorts of websites, including Sally's. And I got in
> touch with her. And here we are.
>
Hehe, Sally seems to be a catalysor of some kind. Teonaht is also the first
artistic conlang I ever discovered. It was kind of "Wow! Other people make
languages for pleasure?! Incredible!!!".
> I'm excited, and still rather stunned, to discover that there are so
> many of us.
Hehe, it's always a surprise to everyone :) .
The first two or three years I was working on my conlang, I
> never dreamed anyone else in the world constructed languages for the
> sheer joy of it. Then a high school English teacher introduced me to
> Tolkien, and I was just blown away.
Shame on me, I read LOTR in the French translation when I was 10 and never
realised he had created languages. Then again, it was a bad translation lacking
the appendices, so I'm not responsible :)) . In any case, my conlanging has
never been influenced by Tolkien :) .
In the late 1970s, I was in contact
> by mail with two other conlangers. Over the years I've heard a few
> second and third hand rumors of people with constructed languages. (One
> of these turns out to have been Sally, in her NPR interview. Small
> world!)
>
LOL. With Sally's work and the LOTR movies, conlanging is really getting less
and less secret! :)
> But apart from that, my constructed-language endeavors have been going
> on in their own little "Hermetically sealed" world. Until two weeks ago,
> when I stared at my computer screen, and I said to myself, "Ai, gaimoz
> il yothov dhalvanof vagi ridalcary'avn'ist?" ("What the heck are all
> these websites about, anyway?")
>
Did you really say that to yourself?! Are you really fluent in your language
like Sally said you were?! Incredible!!! I just so wished I could just utter a
single sentence in a conlang of mine!
It looks great!! And the images seem to show that there is a script associated
with the language, with a looks which reminds me a bit of Arabic calligraphy.
Beautiful!
Great! Which chapter is that? I'd like to try and compare the written word and
the spoken word :) .
> I'd like to put up more material about my language on my site, but (busy
> as my work keeps me) time will tell. In the meanwhile, I will post to
> CONLANG a few "specs" on Hermetic grammar-- soon, within a few minutes,
> if I've got the hang of this. :)
>
Please do! I'm a true linguavore and long for extensive grammatical
descriptions of Hermetic!!! :)
> I'm glad (and still somewhat stunned)
The stunness will go away soon enough, believe me :)) .
to be here, among so many
> conlangers. Thanks once again to Sally for everything she's done for me!
> And I'd be glad to respond to any questions, e-mails, etc.
>
Welcome again! I'm sure you'll like it here. We're like a big family: we do
have our fights, but at the end we always make it up ;)))) , and on the whole
we're happy to be together :) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
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