Hi!
John Vertical <johnvertical@...> writes:
> 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...
Welcome to this list! :-)
> I'm a 20-year-old chemistry student from Finland.
Chemistry, that's nice! The only chemistry student on this list? I
think so. Still there was some interest some time ago in constructed
names of chemical elements and composites. :-) My first conlang
had some strange words for elements for some now unknown reason. :-)
> 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.
Though many people here are linguists, many others are not. :-) Any
many don't have concultures (e.g., me). :-)
> So. You all have probably created various "secret alphabets" as kids?
Sure. But my sister did it with more enthusiasm. (Funny -- now she has
*no* interest in linguistics anymore (but well in learning languages)).
> 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...
Haha! :-)
A lang where you can breathe through the nose while speaking would be
fun, too. ;-)
**Henrik