Re: tolkien?
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 19:11 |
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My conlonging had its beginnings long before I heard
of Tolkien, when I was around nine or ten (early
1950's). I loved to listen to shortwave radio and
couldn't get enough of listening to languages I
couldn't understand just to enjoy the sound of them.
My first conlang was what, at age 10, I thought was
the brilliant inovation of assigning a basic meaning
to each letter and creating words by stringing
together letters whose meaning describe the meaning of
the desired word.
At the more mature age of 11 I created Igpaya
Ussianruskie (Pig Russian) which worked just like Pig
Latin except that there were a number of substitutes
for PL's "ay" depending on which consonant or vowel
came before it. ("aya", "uskie", "ova", icha", etc.)
In the 60's came my first pictographic conlang, and
maybe a dozen bits and pieces of incomplete languages
have followed.
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