Re: conlangs and audience...

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

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