/Joe Mondello wrote:
>=20
> Afew days ago I found a journal I had been keeping last year. after 3 =
entries
> were paragraphs in what was probably my first mature attempt at a priva=
te
> language, Stelothe. I had almost totally forgotten about it. I set to=
work
> deciphering it. I remember it having a very strange case system, as w=
ell as
> a set of agglutinative tense/aspect prefixes [this was before I knew th=
e
> difference]. after tinkering around and keeping in mind that this was =
a
> journal, I realized that Rag=FB meant ra-past g=FB-be and that mu=3DI =
It all began
> to come together. I have deciphered most of the 2nd entry, probably be=
cause
> it included the word "footbal-te" and because i soon remembered the act=
ual
> incident I was describing. Has anyone else ever encountered a forgotte=
n
> conlang and attempted to decipher text?
Programmers do that all the time ...
whether it's their own or another's code.
Plain-text documentation is necessary.