Re: You might be a conlanger if...

Sally Caves wrote:

> HAR!  <-- (note rhotic) :)  I join Rene in r.o.t.f.l.m.h.o.
Concur!

> YOU MIGHT BE A CONLANGER IF...
>
> You can't watch Star Trek anymore because you simply can't accept the
> Universal Translator.
My Galactic Union's thingy is much better, though not instantaneous.

*You make up a Semito-conlang based on license plates you see on the road.
SAQ ...-- Hmm, sa?aqa, asqa, su?qu
>
> You think of uehar (or plug in your own word) before you can think of
> Frau,
> mujer, femme, mulier, gwraig, donna, wif, or woman.
Earlier today, trying to make up an example in Indonesian, I caught myself
using Kash "kota" for Ind. "kata" 'to say'-- which it was stolen from in the
first place.........
>
> You've started making up words in your conlang just to get rhymes in your
> poetry.
Kash doesn't rhyme, but we do need the right accent pattern....

> YOU MIGHT BE SERIOUSLY ADDICTED TO THE CONLANG LIST IF...
>
> You tune in every hour or so in the middle of something you're writing
> that
> has, like, you know, Real Life Implications (especially paying bills on
> line, reading student theses, writing recommendations, preparing class,
> doing your exercises, eating...).
>
> You and you alone can get so worked up about whether retroflex is a POA or
> an MOA.
>
Who, me?

> > *You constantly want to reform English spelling.
>
Sisyphus with his stone.

> > *Your language has a larger vocabulary than Klingon.
>
Don't know about that. It's certainly easier on the throat......

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over your quota.

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