John Quijada:
> And Rosta wrote:
> >...Strange to think
> >that Conlang list will soon -- or perhaps already --
> >be older than some of its subscribers, and that some
> >conlangers will not be able to imagine what being a
> >conlanger was like before the age of the internet.)
> __________________
> I remember those pre-internet days...lovingly dog-eared notebooks filled
> with fading lines of pencilled-in and scratched-out phonologies and verb
> inflections, wondering if I were the only conlanger in the world besides
> Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin....
Exactly! (& I didn't even know then that LeGuin had conlanged)
> It's a shame that this list has gone so far downhill in such a short time.
> I only joined exactly one year ago, and actually recall reading thread
> after thread about...conlanging! (believe it or not).... Seems like such
> threads are few and far between now...that's why I've been in digest mode
> for months. Back to the pencilled notebooks for me I guess....
Presumably there must be a certain cyclicity to the list, in terms
of ontopicness. I don't read it enough to be able to notice, whether
that is so, but I can't think why the list should suddenly have
taken a turn for the worse for the first time.
--And.