From: "E. Notagain" <ecg321@...>
Subject: New To List
> I'm not sure if introductions are traditional here, but I'll take my
> chances.
They seem to be, so chance away!
> I've been interested in languages for as long as I can remember, and tried
> to create one when I was 11, before I had even heard of conlang or even
> Lord of the Rings (which, to this day, I have never been able to read, but
> I speak some Quenya and Sindarin anyway. *shrugs*). The "language" I made
> wasn't really a language at all, just a collection of Spanish, Kemetic and
> Hawaiian words used as a code for English.
This happens a lot when people are starting off.
> In the few years since then I've gotten even deeper into languages, and
> recently (read: about six months ago) discovered that not only do a LOT of
> other people make languages, but there're names for the different types
and
> communities of people who do this.
> Naturally, I was (and am) ecstatic to find other people with the same
> interests -- I've been boring my friends and family, trying to teach them
> Meistei and Pr'ii.
My family has gotten used to the "conversations" that consist of me telling
them about the neatest language feature the world has ever seen, and them
nodding their heads for a while.
> My particular areas of interest are creating the words themselves,
followed
> by scripts, followed by grammar and pronunciation (tie).
What do you mean by pronunciation? If the spelling of the language is
phonemic, then this should be easy.
> Thanks for any help (and I hope I'm not too hard to understand -- I'm
> suffering from a Dr. Pepper overdose),
I'm not going to ask.
> --Erin Notagain--