On 2/28/07, Krista Casada <kcasada@...> wrote:
> Why is this so odd? One factor which can contribute significantly to depression
> is the lack of opportunity to express thoughts or feelings. I recall having
> read, a while back, a young adult novel in which the protagonist said she had
> studied languages most of her life in an effort to find her native one;
> having acknowledged the failure of that quest and (perhaps not quite
> coincidentally) been committed to a facility for emotionally-disturbed
> youths, she used conlanging as a method of connecting to those around her.
Title & author?
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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm