Re: Detailed Hyper-realities: The Conlang Instinct

> What would interest me is how many of you are also involved in music, eit=
her
> playing an instrument, composing, sampling.  I know Herman and Irina are,=
 and
> And.
Count me in, too. I played the piano for 12 years, and percussion for 4.
The two instruments/ instrument groups are so influential on each other tha=
t
I like to consider myself a piancussionist.  (I also played the viola for 3
years in middle school, but I quit at the beginning of high school.  I was
never especially good at it).  And I also love composing, so much that it
seems that it is hard to tell whether I have more of passion for conlanging
or composing.
ObConlang:  Some of my compositions have titles in Skerre, along they aren'=
t
intended to be songs produced by my conculture.  "Where am I?"  becomes "Ha=
r
w'=E6 ik ta toli?," a much more profound question since the Skerre translates
as Where do I exist? with the =E6 signaling a generalization, so one could
conceivably translate the title as "Where is my place in time?  Another
composition, "Day in Night or Night in Day," is "Wek tsor kri il kri tsor
wek," again making more sense in Skerre, since re-translating back to
English it becomes "Day during Night or Night during Day."
-Doug