Re: The difficulties of being weirder than English
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 20, 2004, 16:23 |
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Amanda:
> Lately I've been rather cross about having English for a first language.
> I want to invent something exotic and unique, but two things have made
> me realize that English is already exotic, and I feel cheated :)
[snip telling illustrations of this]
This is why the primary natlang inspiration for my conlanging always
has been & always will be English, & why I find conlangers' exoticist
English-avoidance so annoying. It's not so much that English is so
special (though it is to me), but rather that the more deeply you
know a language the richer a source of inspiration it is.
--And.
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