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