> 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?
>
> --
> Jim Henry
>
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm
>