Re: Lingustic Experiences (was: Phonation or Register Tones)
| From: | Daniel Baisden <alomian1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 28, 1999, 12:26 |
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:42:43 -0500, Kenji Schwarz <schwarz@...>
wrote:
>It would be sort of interesting -- though probably wouldn't demonstrate
>anything -- to find out how many people first came into conlanging through
>the influence of 'artlanging' (Tolkien, RPG stuff, etc) vs. 'auxlanging'
>(Esperanto, etc.).
My first two contacts with conlanging were with Heinlien, who wrote a story
using the idea of a maximally efficient language, and the Scientific American
article about
Loglan. After that I started experimenting off and on. Tolkien's languages had
little effect on me, except that they emphasized how into his conculture he
was. Briefly I flirted with Esperanto, but never quite had the energy to get
actively involved. With Dungeons and Dragons however, I got the idea I could
create bits of apparent languages, by adjusting phonemes and imagined
religions and cultures. After that I could not stop, for long. The Internet
has made it a full time effort.