Re: how many conlangs do you know?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:

> >On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >
> >>I'm just curious... how many conlangs do people know here on average,
> >>besides their own?
I don't even know my own yet.  <wry g>

Honestly--there's so much to choose from, and the few conlangs I browed
didn't really have tutorial pages, more descriptions/grammars/lexicons.

I self-taught myself (with an old but very well-organized grammar) the
beginnings of German, which was very useful for taking 1st-semester
German afterward (I *killed* that class).  I've got Korean and Japanese
sitting around, which I fiddle with from time to time; I also have
readers for Russian and Italian, but don't want to deal with them until I
have a cassette or something with the sounds.

At this point I'm too busy trying to learn a few more natlangs (I think
I'll be happy when I have Japanese, Swahili and something Slavic along
with French, German, English and bad Korean) to spend much time on
conlangs, though it's something I'd like to do in the future.  There are
a lot of great ideas out there!

YHL