Re: Reply to Yitzik (jara: New Survey: Celtic Conlangs)

 --- Eamon Graham skrzypszy:

> > Yes, I'm totally indifferent to Tolkien. My "father" in conlanging was
> > Zamenhof. That's why I don't avoid Western languages as prototypes.
>
> Zamenhof inspired me too in that I was conlanging at the age of 10
> and when I discovered Esperanto shortly after that (thanks to an
> article by Mario Pei) Zamenhof re-assured me that I wasn't "weird."
> :)
Funny, I have never really thought about the question who was my father in
conlanging. I guess there wasn't any, and I started doing it on my own.
However, I remember the first time I found out that there are other people
doing the same: some two years ago, when I visited a hospital in Germany, I
found a magazine that contained an interview with a young German conlanger,
Cyril Brosch, who told about his language S'nôke. I started browsing the
Internet, and then I found a lot of other conlangs. Strange enough, I've never
heard about Cyril Brosch ever since. But the connection was made, and soon
after that I had a database file with over 1000 conlangs.
Of course, I have always known Zamenhof, but somehow never associated my own
conlanging with IALs.

> I'm proud to say that I recently "converted" my fiancee to the
> secret vice.  She's working on a hybrid Romance language.  Good
> start. :)
Has she joined the List already, or is she going to join tomorrow? :)

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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