Good to hear from you.
Tom H.C. in OK
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, John Vertical <johnvertical@H...>
wrote:
> Hi all! I've been on-and-off-lurking for a while now, but I guess
I should
> eventually start participating, too. Maybe now's the time...
>
> I'm a 20-year-old chemistry student from Finland. My language
interest took
> off about a year ago, probably initiated by a long-winded email
> correspondence with a friend with a conlang - during which I
learned much
> new, eg the existence of /I O v/... I've gone a long way since
then, but
> during the journey I have only realized how little I yet know :)
>
> As for my conlang(s)? I believe I come from a background different
from many
> of you; I have no linguistic background at all (everything I know
I've
> learned online), nor concultures or other works of fiction to go
alongside.
> So. You all have probably created various "secret alphabets" as
kids? You
> know, thinking up replacement symbols for the Latin letters and
punctuation
> (and using them to write secret messages.) I've in the past
created lots of
> them, too. Then, back in 9th grade, I created one which was not
just an
> one-to-one replacement. I threw away a bunch of redundant or
unwanted
> letters (eg. b c x) and put in some I deemed more useful (eg. /D N
S/). It
> kind of took off from there... I added more "weird" sounds, my own
variety
> of redundant letters (eg. pl, kw, oa, ie) and the like. Eventually
I started
> to clean the system up a little, and like I said, about a year
ago, I though
> that I might as well make a language to go with it.
>
> This language has, strictly speaking, no name so far, but its
project handle
> (which doesn't yet mean anything...) is "uwjge". (/u\UM\gE/) I've
got
> shape-vise estabilished letters, a phonology under constant
tinkering,
> various grammatical ideas, and almost no vocabulary at all - but
as I see
> it, I'm only starting out, and I'm trying to do this "right" the
first time.
> :)
> Uwjge is also intended to be my introduction to language creation.
I've got
> a few artlang ideas in the queue - one is an entirely non-pulmonic
language,
> the other an entirely unvoiced one... I can "fluently babble" both
of them,
> but I'd certainly like to make them into languages some day.
>
> I *do* have a load of questions, too, but I'm not going to pour
them on you
> right now...
>
> Any replies are welcome!
>
> John Vertical
>
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