Re: Average life of a conlang

Hallo!

My longest-running conlang project so far is Old Albic, which
started seven years ago (or eight years, if one also counts its
predecessor Nur-ellen, but in 2001, I decided to start over from
scratch and sever the link to Sindarin of which Nur-ellen was
a descendant, and the nature of the language's speakers also
changed fundamentally).  Germanech is indeed a few months older
(though not older than Nur-ellen, but I started it before I
decided to junk Nur-ellen), but has effectively been lying
abandoned for several years now, though I haven't given it up
yet and may pick it up again some day.

My first real conlangs (i.e., more than a list of fancy words)
I made 20-something years ago for a cheesy space opera framework
featuring starfaring Atlanteans, and lived for about a year or so,
before I decided that that universe was way too corny to follow
through, and abandoned it together with the languages.  They were
modelled much after German and Latin, grammar-wise.

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:38:22 +0100, R A Brown wrote:

> [...] But what
> about the Briefscript Project? It began about 1958 and is still not
> finished!
50 years, and still working on it?!  That's indeed a long-running
project.  I wasn't even aroud when you started it.  See that you
finish it soon, otherwise it may be at your grandchildren to
complete it :)

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