Re: Delurking...

Tervetuola, John!

On Saturday 04 June 2005 01:51 CEST, Michael Potter wrote:

 > 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...

Have fun here!

 > That's one thing about this place: you can always learn
 > something.

That's true.

 > > 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.

Yep, that goes for me, too. Though I've always shown a
certain interest into words.

 > > 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.

If the signs hadn't been so difficult I wouldn't have
forgotten them all. Since I am spoilt with German
orthography, I only made ciphers of the Latin alphabet.
That changed when I came to conlanging two years ago.

 > 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.

Same here. Found the LCK (http://www.zompist.com/kit.html),
thought 'give it a try' and ended up here.

 > Michael Potter
 > Idzon Conworld: http://www.potterpcs.net/idzon

Have fun,
Carsten Becker

Areqa: http://www.beckerscarsten.de/areqa -- also only very
little information there because I haven't made up more yet.

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