Roots (was: T-Shirt)

At 11:23 pm -0500 24/9/00, Carlos Thompson wrote:
>Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
>> Very true; on the other hand, excluding Tolkien would mean cutting
>> off our own roots!  So put Quenya and Sindarin on the t-shirt, but
>> not Esperanto.
>
>But my roots are Esperanto.  (even if I'm not an auxlanger... and I
>haven't read Tolkien yet)
Yes, and Esperanto was the first conlang I encountered, long years ago at
the tender age of 11.  Although I had devised one conlang before that, it
did give the impetus to construct a few dozen others - including the odd
artlang or two - during my teens, well before I had ever come across
Tolkien.

I'm sure Esperanto has been the starting point for others in this odd hobby
of ours - which is why I'm sad we seem to have to exclude it. Oh, a plague
on talpoj and eurocloniacs!

Ray.


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