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Re: Conlang fluency

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 1:26
In a message dated 5/7/01 3:15:55 PM, MGreenlee@AOL.COM writes:

<< Does anyone speak/write (or know someone who speaks/writes) a conlang with
some degree of fluency? Is anyone at least able to form basic sentences in
conlangs without consulting a grammar or lexicon? >>

    With my first language, which is totally regular and fairly predictable,
I can use basic sentences.  I translated a thirty-page story in it, so I've
pretty much memorized the words that came up a lot.  For the rest, though, I
haven't, and haven't had any real motivation yet.

-David