Re: Delurking...
| From: | Michael Potter <mhpotter@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 3, 2005, 23:49 |
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John Vertical 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...
>
Idile! (Hello!)
It took you long enough. :)
(I lurked for 3 months before my 1st post)
> 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 :)
>
That's one thing about this place: you can always learn something. I'm
21, and I've been on here for 1 1/2 years.... Well, my intro's in the
archive, so I don't need to repeat it. :)
> 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.
I don't have any linguistic background either, and there are quite a few
posters that don't. I have made my own conworld (see the link in my
signature), but there's not much to it yet.
> 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.
>
I never really did any of the "secret alphabet" type thing. I did do
cryptograms and codes and stuff like that, though. I didn't consider
"making up words" as having a purpose until I was 16. Somebody on a
forum posted a link to the LCK, and the rest was history. Suvile is
about the 6th conlang I've made, and the only one that made it past the
sketch stage.
> 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.
>
That's how it starts. And then it never ends. :)
Once you have something to show, be sure to post it to the list!
> I *do* have a load of questions, too, but I'm not going to pour them on you
> right now...
>
Ask away! There's a daily message limit, though.
> Any replies are welcome!
>
> John Vertical
>
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