Re: Data and Musings...
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 20:12 |
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Alfred Wallace wrote:
> I was poring through my book collection the other day, and I was kind
> of surprised how many foreign language books I had amassed:
I think this is not entirely surprising, considering the
nature of this hobby of ours.
> ...and I thought I had really pared down. Last year, I liquidated
> about 15 French and 3 ancient Greek books, and got rid of my
> collections for Assyrian, Linear B, and Ancient Egyptian. (I couldn't
> bring everything home from college.)
Heresy! Liquidating language books is like poking out two healthy
eyes with red hot pokers! ;)
> Anyway, ob-conlang: I hadn't thought of it before, but now I'm
> wondering what my language-learning choices have to do with my
> conlanging.
Possibly. I notice that when people describe especially their
earliest conlanging activities, there seems to be a common
progression:
messing around with alphabets -> writing English in an alphabet
code -> replacing English words with "made-up" words using
English grammar -> messing about with the grammar -> exposure
to Foreign tongues expands horizons and conlang sophistication
Your experience may vary; warranty may not apply to remanufactured
protolanguage roots; etc.
Padraic.
> Alfred
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