Re: Introduction, and a Couple Questions

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:50:00PM -0500, Parker Glynn-Adey wrote:

> Hi there, my name is Parker Glynn-Adey.
Hi!

> a second year math / philosophy student at Trent University. My interest in
> conlanging goes back to the beginning of highschool, and I've studied:
> lojban, Rikchik, Toki Pona, Esperanto, Klingon, John Wilkin's Language,
As you write this it occurs to me that I am old.  (I remember Rikchik being
unveiled on the list... I'm glad it's still out there!)

> About conlanging though:
>    -Why do most people start their work on a language with their phonology?
Couple of answers.

1) Somebody wrote a Language Creation Kit that said people should, and a
lot of people were influenced by that.  (The ZBB answer.)

2) Because if you don't, you end up having to fix it later, and that means
discarding your precious, precious wordsssses, my precious!

3) Some of us don't, really.  I usually start with a concept, grammatical
or morphological (does this make me an engelanger?), but those are sketches
that don't get very far.  Ironically, the language I am stuck with, my
first one, is saddled with an uninspired and naively IE-like phonology,
precisely because I didn't know what I was doing at 13 when I started it.

>    -I notice that a lot of people have conlangs that take the form of pretty
> PDF files, is anyone here a LaTeX user?
I remember Ebisedian was always produced in TeX.  The author (HS Teoh) had
lots of scripts to generate it from his own ASCII code.

tylakèhlpë'fö,
Amanda