Re: how many conlangs do you know?

> From: H. S. Teoh
> Subject: how many conlangs do you know?
>
> I'm just curious... how many conlangs do people know here on average,
> besides their own?
>
> I'm been looking over some conlangs and I find that it takes quite a while
> to learn a conlang. Maybe I'm just slow... but I wonder how familiar
> people are with conlangs that aren't their own.

Zero!!  Why I barely know my own.  I think you will find very few on this
list that have learned someone else's conlang.  There are a lot of
obstacles, among them:  1) Many conlangs are still very sketchy and too
incomplete either lexically or syntactically. 2) Conlangs tend to change
radically and often making it difficult for an outsider to keep up.  3) Not
many conlangs are documented sufficiently to provide the necessary training
materials.

David,
Who is still not fluent in his own conlang,
but might like to learn Nur-ellen :-)

David E. Bell
The Gray Wizard
    dbell@graywizard.net
    www.graywizard.net

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