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Re: R: Re: I'm new!

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Monday, October 23, 2000, 18:29
Adrian Morgan wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > > My early experience with language was mixed. I had a perfectly good > > "exotic" language in the home but being pressured to learn it properly > > turned me off (I'm afraid I was a contrary little kid). > > Nothing to be afraid of in being contrary ... although plenty for /other/ > people to be afraid of ;-) And believe me, I know! > > > Conlanging "for real" began last summer when I rediscovered the Language > > Construction Kit and all the wonderful websites out there, and finally > > learned of this list. :-) > > Similar to me. It was the Construction Kit that made me realise I might > be capable of inventing a grammar. >
Well, personally I had already started conlanging, but my projects were only sketches - yeah, some grammar, but, for istance, I had never thought a lang should have things as phonological constraints... The Lang Const Kit gave me precise ideas of what should be done. Luca