Re: relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise in phonologies and

Kala Tunu wrote:
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that must have been a shock. how old are they though?
i plan to marry in the midst of next year and i would like
to know whether i could keep conlanging or should stop when
i have kids.
my fiancée finds the idea of inventing langs interesting (i
guess it's because she's a language teacher speaking native
hebrew, english and spanish and writing poems :-). i'd like
to know how parents on the list could manage to raise
children and keep conlanging. is that possible? is that
advisable? how do children react? what bad consequences
could this entail? if children start conlanging because they
see me do so should i stop them and/or stop myself?
i could stand quitting conlanging by now. i settled my
conlang Tunu's grammar and root vocabulary a few months ago.
i had very specific goals when i started building Tunu years
ago and i consider i've achieved them. actually, i
concentrated a lot on Tunu last year in order to finish it
before i get married. the whole "hoaxlanging" system i was
dreaming of is here now. it's really what i wanted from the
beginning. so my conlanging activity is now basically: (i)
visiting and learning on other conlangers' webpages (ii)
slowly building a Tunu teach-yourself webpage. i would never
try to explain it to any of my relatives. still, would this
kind of activity affect my kids?
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Is there anything wrong with conlanging? Is it an evil influence that you
wouldn't want to subject your children to? I answer with a resounding
"NO!!!"

Conlanging is usually* a recreational activity, such as writing poetry,
playing baseball, etc. If you did anything like that, would you stop your
kids from doing it?

However, you might have to conlang less so that you can take care of your
children.

*Occasionally it's useful for research, like making pottery using
Babylonian techniques.

The one who cannot know whether he gives bad advice due to his
inexperience,
Christopher Wright

"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
a philosopher asks.
"Woodchucks can't chuck wood," replies a computer programmer.
"What sort of woodchuck-like beings would have a planet that exports a
lot of lumber?" wonders a daydreaming xenologist.
"You said *could*. That means we need to grow a woodchuck on steroids and
specially train it with some sort of narcotic to chuck wood," replies
Pavlov.
"That sentence is exceedingly ugly," I mutter.