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

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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