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Re: conlangs and audience...

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Friday, March 17, 2000, 8:17
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Sally Caves wrote:

> Wow, thank you, Matt, for your warm remarks. I really think > it's this audience that will be my best one for the article. It's > been up two days, and the casual readers of M/C are not exactly > beating my door down.
They *are* looking up the links; we have slightly more traffic on the xs4all mirror.
> Where else > can one write and illustrate one's fantasies, and even shamelessly put > them to song?
There are places in the non-virtual world (I hesitate to call it "real" :-) where you can - we used to belong to one such, even met there - but it foundered in internal quibbles.
> Axel Brun sent me > his announcement of the issue
Apart from the fact that Valdyans can't be called "Axel", he could be a Valdyan nobleman!
> Hee hee! David Bell states on his website that Amman-Iar has been in > development for thirty years; I didn't want to mention Teonaht, and your > language was the only one I could think of in my pressured weekend that > was approaching a decade in the making. So you got scooped in. My > apologies to those inventors I overlooked. Sorry.
You didn't overlook me, but did you know that Valdyan is also approaching ten years? I started working on the language a few weeks after I first met Boudewijn, ten years ago *yesterday* (and yes, we did celebrate).
> We'll see! As I said, I think you guys are my best audience. But I > wanted to "legitimate" the essay. Get someone outside of conlang to > publish it.
Very wise; cuts out some of the associations of navel-staring. Irina -- Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@valdyas.org (myself) - http://valdyas.conlang.org (Valdyas) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/index.html (home)