Re: Ephphatha

Pete wrote:

<< What was the thing that first opened your mind to the exciting
possibilities of language? For me, it was studying Latin, which had a basic
word order different from English, and also a great deal of freedom to vary
that word order because of its inflecting morphology. It showed me, in a
way that French never had, that it was possible for a language to work in a
significantly different way from my own (I had been studying French at
school for one year before I started Latin, and the course was more
oriented towards basic communication than grammar). It was shortly after
that that I created Lingu Scribem, my first attempt at a conlang (The
Inevitable Euroclone).>>

Mine is a strange story.   I'd become utterly bored with school in eleventh
grade, and it was then that I went to
a national conference and met a girl who could speak French better than I
could speak Spanish.   This probably
shouldn't have seemed so controversial, but the fact was that this girl
started learning French for the first time
in high school, and had never been to France, whereas Spanish was one of my
first languages.   From then on I
became determined to become at least functionally fluent in every language.
And so it was then that I started
studying (aside from Spanish) French, German, Latin, Arabic and Japanese.

From there, I went on to Berkeley and took classes in Arabic, Russian and a
strange thing I'd heard about from
my mother called Esperanto.   It was then that I came up with the utterly
novel idea of creating my *own*
language, which ended up being a mismash of Arabic, Esperanto and English.
Shortly afterwards, I found the
list and discovered that my novel idea wasn't as novel as I'd first
imagined...   ;)

-David
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"sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."
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-Jim Morrison

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