Starting conlanging
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 13, 1999, 17:03 |
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On -1 xxx -1, it was written:
(By someone whose mail software sends a header that my mail software
can't decipher, and whose name is reported as Ed Heil)
> 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).
Irina
Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay.
irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)