Re: Deciphering ones own works

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:40:15 EDT, /Joe Mondello <Rugpretzel@...> =
wrote:

> Has anyone else ever encountered a forgotten
>conlang and attempted to decipher text?
Not quite, but I have a similar experience. Iftinas is a language I =
created
back in high school for the purpose of writing secret notes, and I never
wrote down the vocabulary. I did have one page of noun and verb =
paradigms,
but no indication of what they actually meant, and nothing more about the
grammar. After a while, the language started falling into disuse, and I
realized that I had forgotten a lot of the words. So I started =
documenting
what I could remember or figure out from context before I forgot the rest
of it.