Sally Caves wrote:
> I hope you haven't forgotten Teonaht!
How could we forget such a beautiful language? :-)
Welcome back!
> 1) How many of you old- and new-comers started inventing a language
> in isolation from the list?
I would imagine most of us did ... surely non-conlangers don't join the
list?
> 1a) If so, how old were you?
Hmm ... about 14, I think.
> 1b) Was it a project with friends or a solitary project?
By myself
> 1b) Did your invented language have some kind of private purpose?
> esoteric? erotic? religious or mystical?
Originally intended for future stories, but those stories never got off
the ground. :-)
> 3) How many of you, when you were starting out on this on your own,
> did this kind of thing: you have a list of words you want to invent
> new ones for, so you drew di-and polysyllabic words out of the air.
My first conlang was somewhat like that, altho I did have a few
derivations and the like.
> 4) If so, how important was it that the new word sound "exotic,"
> "beautiful," or
> "suggestive" in some personal way of the word you wanted it to stand
> for?
Originally, that was completely unimportant, tho the overall sound was
kind of important.
> 5) How many of you invented words to express concepts that could not be
> expressed in your native language?
There were a few.
> 8) A language for a conculture?
All of my conlangs had concultures, altho some of them weren't very
detailed.
> 10) What is your definition of a mystical language? Would any of you
> characterize your conlang as such?
I don't know how to define that, but I wouldn't consider mine such.
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