Re: Ephphatha

Peter Bleackley  <Peter.Bleackley@...> 2004.05.17. 12:31:00 +1h-kor írta:

> What was the thing that first opened your mind to the exciting
> possibilities of language?
Well… It sounds somewhat strange but I made my
first conlang when I was about seven and did not know
much about language and linguistics. I can't recall
whence my idea came but I was writing a — well a sort
of 'novel' as I used to call it. It was about me
travelling to a foreign planet and saving the
civilization of space hedgehogs :D This was the first
time I had the idea of a feline language, and though
it had no grammar at all being just a bunch of words
thrown together and the idea was abandoned for a long
time, I think this was the beginning of all my passion
of language creating.

Two years later I met a book called 'Egypt – myths and
legends' and it had some hieroglyphic insriptions and
photos beside the stories about gods. Then I became a true
fanatic of Egypt. The next four years I have read all
the materials about Egyptian I could find in local
libraries – almost nothing but enough to establish a
strong enthusiasm for strange and non-European languages.

During 6th grade I have begun a new version of my
never-finished story and my first true lnguage Longwer
– it had far different sound and shape than now
being a mangle of Egyptian vocabulary and 'grammar'
with some traces of English but the idea was the same
– a language for Cats and other felines.
And then I have found this list and saw that my conlang
is far less consistent and well-built than could be
and began to study linguistics more seriously.

-- Mau