Re: Starting conlanging

> > I'm wondering how many people here started conlanging spontaneously, and how
> > many got the idea from existing conlangers, like me (whether those were
> > conlangers here on the web, or well-known ones like Tolkien and Okrand).
>
> Definitely spontaneously; I've been making up words and (especially)
> names-with-a-meaning for as long as I can remember, and didn't start
> to read Tolkien until I was about 10 (in Dutch) and the appendices at
> 14 (in English; my parents had a paperback translation with only
> Appendix A and B).
Same here, same story!  I've told this one before, and it's on my webpage.Sally
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html