Re: Ephphatha
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 9:03 |
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* Peter Bleackley said on 2004-05-17 13:31:00 +0200
> What was the thing that first opened your mind to the exciting
> possibilities of language?
Being Norwegian, I've always been aware of other languages. Movies are
subbed and not dubbed, and when I was little there was British English,
German, Czheoslovakian, Russian, French and Jugoslavian programming (and
various Nordic but most of those you don't need to read the subtitles to
understand) on tv. The first years of school I lived up North, where
there were speakers of three types of Sami languages, a dialect of
Finnish (might even be an official language), and dialects from all over
Norway because of the army base there.
It was customary to start learning English officially in fourth grade
(ten year olds then), but now they start in first or second grade AFAIK.
German, which I started learning when I was fourteen, had a great
influence on the then current conlang but it was already well
established (and the orthography was anglo-safe! yech... no wonder I
dropped it ;) )
Come to think of it, strange that there aren't more conlangers here...
maybe they're still hiding in the closet?
t.