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

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Thursday, October 19, 2006, 15:30
Hallo!

> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:23:40 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: > > Sally Caves skrev: > > > I suppose I'm a conlang evangelist as well, since I > > promote it whenever I see it among my students! :) > > Do you come across it often? Sad to say I've only ever come > across only two or three other people interested in non- > auxlang conlanging outside the online conlanging milieu. > One of them was my stepson, but he alas soon lost the > interest again. > > OTOH It's a secret vice, so I may have come across some > interested people without knowing it.
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.) 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.) Greetings, Jörg.

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