Re: Our lost first conlang (was: Is conlang a gen...)

At 23:10 08/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>De: Pharamond Curtis <shmeos@...>
>Fecha: Jueves 8 de Octubre de 1998 20:01
>
>>(Incidentally, IIRC, the language basically replaced English words with
>>new words, but I did have adjectives follow nouns, as in Spanish.  Oh,
>>and the few words I translated would be priceless to me now, if only I
>>could find them.)
>
>
>It seems to happent to many of us... those first attempts to conlang, in the
>pre-Internet era, are at some degree lost.  Nik with Tarni'f, myself with
>Rithen... or Joe Mondello, and Herman Miller with their undocumented old
>works.
>
>I wonder how common has been to us, those first attemps, how valuable are
>them for ourselves, are we dissapointed, are they our most beloved childs,
>are they lost or put in a pedestal ???
>
>-- Carlos Th
>
>
        I lost only my very first attempts to create a language (as I
already said, they were just supersets of Latin, so the loss is not so
high), but then, I kept every language I did, even when I did a major
update. I must have in my notes at least fifteen more or less complete
projects, with totally different goals and totally different grammars. It's
a good source of new ideas to go into the past.

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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