Re: conlangs and audience...

In a message dated 3/16/2000 6:12:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

<<  but I, too, have spent
 enormous amounts of my childhood putting plans on paper, just for the
 sheer
 joy of it.  Houseplans, for instance.  I still do that.  Some of them
 very
 elaborate.  And those years in my teens where I spent every
 leisure hour working on my model "city."  It wasn't even three
 dimensional.
 It was all mapped out.  Maps and maps and maps.  Does anyone have any
 hobby
 comparable? >>
    Not comparable...identical!!  And still going strong.  After all, once
you've mapped a planet, it has to have cities, right?  The house-planning has
stood me in good stead, given my penchant for buying old wreck-y houses. (But
for Calculus 1, and slight lack of parental enthusiasm, I might have been an
architect... architect/linguist?  Right vs. left brain?  Or just because I'm
a Gemini?

 I wonder, now, if the map-making and the house plans have
 some cognitive/creative link with conlanging?  >>
I'd certainly agree-- world creation.  (I dislike to think we've crossed that
fine line between hobby and obsession.)  Roger