Re: my conlang: anyone interested?

At 05:29 30.11.2003, Robert Jung wrote:
>
>*I meant "unusual 13-year-old who is a conlanger"! Misuse of modifiers; I
>know no other 13-year-old conlangers (or even a conlanger in person!).
Well, I used to be a 13-year-old conlanger,
although that was 24 years ago.  Anyway being
13 and a conlanger is not all that unusual in
the small world of conlangers.  We have had/have
a whole bunch of 18-year-olds, and IIRC some
15-year olds.  Unless they have taken up the vice
quite recently they were probably at it already
at your age too.  I think that Ray Brown, who is
now in his sixties(?) took it up at around your age
too, as did Sally Caves, who is now forty-something.
The problem is that in the old days before
the internet conlangers could not usually get in
touch with each other, so each onetended to believe
that s/he was the only one.  I had the fortune to
have a High School Latin teacher who was an
Esperantist, and altho I stayed clear of Religious
Esperantism (actually finding Esperanto uningenious
and boring -- I spotted the unsystematicness of its
vocabulary immediately) he encouraged my interest
in both conlangs and linguistics.  I also knew
that there were other artlangers, Tolkien and
Edgar Rice Burroughs being published evidence of that.

>  (Did you know that, in Lojban, compounds like "broken light bulb" really
> mean "bulb that emits broken light"?! [I think.])
My lang Sohlob, albeit an artlang-cum-linguistic-typology-
laboratory, makes the distinction by insisting on genitive
phrases rather than compounds, like "bulb light's broken"
or 'broken light's bulb' with English word order. (Except
that the Sohlosjneng are pre-industrial, and thus don't
have any such thing! :)

BTW I'm facinated by your surname, since my third given name
is Jung -- in my case not a Germanism, but a dialectal
Swedish pronunciation of John.

/BP 8^)
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