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

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Monday, March 12, 2007, 17:06
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. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf