Re: Conlanging evangelism (was: Re: Conlang Books - ASP & CL101)

Hi!

Jörg Rhiemeier writes:
>...
> The only conlangers I know are those I learned to know in Internet
> conlanging and world building fora.  None of my real-life friends
> show a particular interest in conlanging, and my brother outright
> detests it.  (My parents don't know; I ceased informing them on
> my world building and related activities long ago because they
> didn't approve of that kind of geekery.)
>...
Intesting, since my parents did appreciate most of my hobbies, however
strange it must have been to them.  E.g. I marked my room door with a
sign ,Henrik' written in Fukhian and they did not make me feel that
this was particularly strange.  I suppose I was lucky.

>...
> I also feel that at least here in Germany, there is rather little
> community sense.  A conlanger I know from this list recently moved
> into the city where I live, but he turned down my attempts to meet
> him in real life.  (He didn't say "No thanks, I don't want to meet
> you", but it was obvious to me from his reactions that he wasn't
> interested.)
>...
I know at least one other conlanger here in Saarbrücken, but we also
did not meet to talk about conlanging so far, for whatever reasons.
And probably she did not subscribe to this list (or is she a silent
lurker??) although I mailed her the link. :-)

Never mind, different people live their hobbies in different ways.

**Henrik