Re: how many conlangs do you know?

Patrick Dunn wrote:
> Me, I love language, including conlangs (I still think Teonaht is the most
> beautiful conlang on Earth, and I'd love to learn it)
Speaking of which, where's Sally Caves?

> (Although, as an aside, conlanging has vastly improved my language
> learning ability -- features of French that might have thrown me five
> years ago [like the pronouns en and y] now just seem neato.)
Linguistics in general seems to have that effect.  Just the other day it
suddenly hit me how to remember the spelling of words like "witch" -
nouns and verbs with short vowels followed by /tS/ end in -tch.  The
reason even makes sense - otherwise when adding -es or -ing, you'd have
to interpret the vowel as long, as "tch" is the "doubled" version of
"ch".  Why had I never learned that rule in school?

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