Re: CHAT: Sitting by your fire (and a very brief de-lurk)

My husband and I once started a little language over a weekend at
a con, between the workshops and whatnot. We had a lot of fun
with it, but nothing ever came of it when we got home. That's
really a shame because it would have come in handy for those
conversations we have that we don't particularly want to involve
our children in, and for timing our escape when we visit
relatives.

A tip when speaking a foreign language in front of monolinguals:
if you really did say something unpleasant about someone and they
ask what you said, tell them you were asking whether or not you
still had spinach in your teeth. And then smile and laugh like
you are mildly embarrassed. :)


Peter Clark wrote:
<snippage>
>         Have been thinking about inventing a spouse language. :) Something
> I can specifically speak with my (soon-to-be, as of December) wife. Enamyn
> will probably be far too complex for even its humble creator to speak with
> a fair degree of fluency, but a simpler language, with simple
> phonology and morphology, might be interesting. Assuming, of course, that
> she is interested. Has anyone done this before? A language capable of
> expressing, "Come over here and rescue me from this dreadful bore! If I
> have to listen to him talk for another minute, I shall have to kill
> him!" Such a language could be immensely useful. However, it would most
> likely turn into a Russian/Japanese hybrid: she will teach me Japanese,
> and I will teach her Russian, and since neither of us are native speakers
> in either language, the results will be most interesting. ;>

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