Re: Coming out & finding-the-community stories?

Hallo!

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:02:07 -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:

> Tell us about:
> * how you 'came out' as a conlanger in any context (academic, social,
> parents, ...), their reactions to it, etc
>
> * how you found out that others do this (i.e. all of us weirdos) &
> your reactions to that.
>
> Consider this an open prompt; I just want to hear your stories about
> the social side of this craft.
I don't remember very well how I ended up here, but it was somewhen
in the first half of the year 2000 when I studied Tolkien's languages
and began cobbling together what later was to become Albic.  I searched
the Internet high and low for useful resources and eventually found
CONLANG.

I never really felt I was the only one who dabbled in conlangs and
conworlds.  To me, conworlds imply conlangs, and I have been messing
about with fictional worlds for years, sometimes together with a
cousin of mine, and I have a long history of reading imaginative
fiction, and playing role-playing games.

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