Re: closet conlanging

Sally Caves wrote:
> The certain kind
> of  narrow opinion that keeps  all us adult conlangers from revealing what
> we do to most outsiders (lest we be called adolescent) exerts a similar
> (though by no means as oppressive) a force on our silence as homophobia
> does.  At least that's how I had interpreted And's remark.  It has to be a
> truism, because nobody could take seriously the notion that religiosity is a
> primarily adolescent phase.
I took it that remark as stating that teenagers often experiment with
many things, including homosexuality, conlanging, and religiousness.
Some of these things strike a chord, so to speak, and stay with them,
they find that that is who they really are, weather that's a gay person,
a conlanger, or a religious person, and others find that that's *not*
what they are, and so it can be described as a "phase" that they go thru
without denigrating those for whom it's not a phase.  Perhaps I'm
reading too much into that comment, tho.