Re: first member from India

ícreus il Pavel Iosad:

> > Conlangs are not popular here in America,
> > either.  I've never met anybody in
> > my entire life who was interested in
> > languages or conlangs either.
That's true, on the surface. But ask thyself
this: how many of the people you meet do you
broach the topic with? I'd bet money that the
answer is close to zero. Point being, it may
well be more common than we think; but we don't
know cos our Kinsey hasn't come along yet.

> > If I
> > were to talk about the things from this
> > list with any of my friends, they
> > wouldn't know what I was talking about.
Exactly. Sooner or later you tend to keep quiet
about it, I bet.

> How do you know?
'Sperience! Quite a few of us have broached the
subject at one time or another. Usually the
response is noncommital to mild amusement. Just
one more weird thing I get up to! I've never
had anyone say "cor, I do that too!"

> We have the Daniel and Jessica case at hand,
> for instance, or Boudewijn and Irina.
Lucky bastards! There's also a fellow on Ideo-L
who, as I understand it (and I may well have
gotten the wrong end of the lit firework), has
met a girl and they don't have a common language
and they're making one up.

Padraic.


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