Re: What is it we are saying in our languages?

Sally wrote:
> I think what many of us are expressing, here, is a sense of coming
late to
> that monument, or finding that it is bigger than we can build and
heavier
> than we can hoist.
Holy crap! My entire conlanging experience, over the last 23 years of my
life, summed up in one emotionally painful yet beautiful sentence.

> I wish I had somehow "started" my Teonaht earlier.
> I started early, but not in any sophisticated way.
Ditto. I started early (age 12) but it took some 20 years of my life and
dozens (five or six seriously developed and used, the rest grammatical
and/or phonological sketches) of discarded, resurrected, mutated, doomed
and ultimately abandoned conlangs to "find myself", for lack of a better
description, conlinguistically speaking.

I can't help but often wonder what might have been had it not required
that long, oft-frustrating route...

> I am envious of those few I know who are fluent in their languages
because they
> started making it a familiar one early on, or have the genius for
quick memorization.

Me too.

Thomas