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Re: my conlang: anyone interested?

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Sunday, November 30, 2003, 12:44
> > BTW, this is a valuable opportunity to see into > > the linguistically-oriented mind of an unusual > > 13-year-old conlanger > >It might be interesting to know what knocks >around the mind of (or for that matter, >constitutes) a USUAL 13 year old conlanger!
If you're only 13 and already know that the field of linguistics exists, you're way ahead of the game. I didn't discover it until I was 16 or 17, but that still gave me enough lead time to do an undergrad major in it, which is more than most people manage. (At my university, at least.) The disappointing thing is that my university didn't offer any classed whatsoever in historical linguistics (even though it had a very good linguistics department), which has always been my main interest. When the time comes to pick potential colleges, you may want to really scrutinize their linguistics departments to make certain that their areas of interest match well with yours, though, even if they don't, it will be a mind-broadening experience. Isidora