Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Thursday, April 24, 2003, 3:25 |
|---|
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:52:24 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen
<ijzeren_jan@...> wrote:
>> Well...you don't _have_ to translate it. You _could_ tell us non-dutch
>> speaking types "tough! Learn Dutch!". :). I regard you translating your
>> work into english for us an act of kindness on your part, rather than a
>> "must be done" thing. Just like putting it on the web at all. :)
>
>Thank you, I'm glad you appreciate it :) . Well, it is also an act of kindness
>towards myself. After all, the conlang community is already small enough as it
>is, and a website in Dutch would dangerously limit my potential audience.
Maar het Nederlands is geen moeilijke taal te leren, als men Engels spreken
kan, en iets over Duits weet. (Minstens is het niet te moeilijk te _lezen_.
Het _schrijven_ is helemaal niet zo gemakkelijk!)
Personally, I think it would be really cool to see more conlang sites in
Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hokkien, and all the
other conlangers' native languages out there. I think conlangers are more
likely than random web surfers to have an interest in reading (or at least
looking at) web sites in different languages. I'll occasionally go around
searching for Latin names of animals specifically to find non-English
sites.
Corrections to my first attempt at writing Dutch would be appreciated. :-)
(The intended meaning is "But Dutch is not a difficult language to learn,
if you can speak English, and know a little about German. (At least it's
not too hard to _read_. _Writing_ isn't quite so easy!)")
Replies