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Re: me and my languages

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Monday, September 10, 2001, 7:14
Jim Hopkin wrote:

>I thought that at the age of fifty-one I was one of the oldest members of the >group (and probably the latest-comer language wise, Duni is only four years >old and is my exclusive conlang focus at the moment.). Any one else care to >divulge their age and the age of their oldest conlang project?
I've been alive a modest 24 years. I've been conlanging for at least 12 years. I started out by trying to compile a glossary of Quenya, Sindarin, etc, but I got impatient when I could find words I needed, so changed things as I saw fit. (I'm ashamed to say that at one point, I defined _nazg_ as 'birthday' - it was homophonous with 'ring'.) My oldest conlang, Telek, is going on 7 years, though it has been substantially revised a number of times, and its present incarnation is about 2 years old. The words lajhosa'life' and jedolen 'fire' have been with me since the beginning. (Originally, jedolen was ied 'evil' + oren 'power'.) Not coincidentally, they are also the names of the two major deities in the conculture supporting the conlang, and have been all along. I have a major reworking of the Telek verbal system coming along. Many new and interesting (to me) changes. Marcus