Re: conlang names

You guys should consider yourselves lucky - you're naming your Conlangs
now as [presumably] sane adults.  I named my Conlang when I was 14,
building my language during dull moments in math classes...  The result
is (pretty embarrasingly) that my Conlang has ever since born the name
Tesk.  Why?  (*Blush*) Because I saw the Conlang as a manifestation of
my intelligence [bear in mind that I thought I was the only person in
the world doing this]; intelligence led me to the organization Mensa
[NOT a road I'd go down today]; mensa = table; and table in my Conlang
is tesk.

Happy naming!

Kabirr pax mix qytsút

[rr = r-hacek]


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From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:59 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: conlang names


On 9 Dec 2004, at 2.13 pm, # 1 wrote:

> I've started my first conlang but I encountered a problem: the name
>What do you take as names?  It is logic when you call it by the name of
>the imaginary people who speak it but I don't have any history about my
>conlang.

I would imagine that a language doesn't need a name unless there are
other languages from which it needs to be differntiated.  Senyecan had
no name until other languages began to evolve from it.  Then it was
decided to call it Senyecan, i.e, ancient language, to differentiate it
from the others.

Charlie

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