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Re: my conlang: anyone interested?

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, November 30, 2003, 12:22
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^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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