Re: Our lost first conlang (was: Is conlang a gen
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 13, 1998, 7:27 |
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At 20:57 12/10/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Carlos Thompson wrote:
>> > I wonder how common has been to us, those first attemps, how valuable are
>> > them for ourselves, are we dissapointed, are they our most beloved childs,
>> > are they lost or put in a pedestal ???
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>Until a year ago I discarded my first conlang.
>A few months ago, I looked back at it and realized it was more inventive
and clever than what I do now.
>I've kept so far the 10 cases I found in the early days of conlanging to
'explain' relations between words and derive predicates - as the current
Group Conlang conjures up - but the whole vocabulary changed, swelled and
then shrank when I was able to derive all of it from noun roots. I still
wonder how I could create this grammatical bases at that time. Children
always surprise us :-)
>We should never grow up so we could perfect conlangs :-))
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That's maybe why I'm a conlanger. People often say I see things like
a child, not childishly, but naively (not negative), with big amazed eyes.
I'm in engineering school, but I still wonder where does the wind come from,
and where does it go. And I'm still convinced that magic exists. As Jacques
Brel said, I want to get old without becoming an adult.
Christophe Grandsire
|Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.
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