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Re: closet conlanging

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 22, 1998, 4:23
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.