Re: "natural" language?

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Eric Stumbaugh wrote:

> I'm creating a conlang to support my novel-in-(many years')-progress. I must
> say I'm a writer first; the most important thing to me is story. But I've
> come to a point where I need to do some more below-the-water work on my
> iceberg, as it were.
I will defer to the other, wiser listmembers to answer your
questions--but I just wanted to say hello.  :-)  I, too, am a writer
first (in sf/f), though I've been interested in language/linguistics for
their own sakes for a long time.  None of my published stories actually
use any real linguistics, but I hope to rectify that for future stories.  =^)

Meanwhile, happy writing and I hope you find out what you want to know!

Cheers,
Yoon Ha Lee
a rookie conlanger