Re: your conlang, please? (Rich Aunt gets hold of the Lunatic Survey)

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:18:21 -0400, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Of course this is precisely what we CAN'T say about "private languages."
>Does that bother you that your language has a speaker of one?  Some of
>you get together and learn each other's languages.  I'm thinking in
>particular of Brithenig and Kernu (whose inventors have remained notably
>silent!)  Is one of the appeals of a private invented language that you
>alone know its secrets and control its development?
Well, in theory there are millions of speakers of Jarrda and billions of
speakers (American billions) of Zirinka, but of course they're all
fictional. Since I don't have time to write millions of stories, in
practice there will probably never be more than a handful of speakers of
any language who actually use it. And there probably will never be more
than one speaker of experimental languages like Iwa and Mega-Eklektu, =
even
including fictional characters, but that doesn't bother me.