Re: conlanging and journaling

--- Rick Harrison <rick@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:36:15 -0500, John Vertical
> <johnvertical@...> wrote:
>
> >...You're not saying that in order to be a Real
> Conlanger, you'd have to
> >have started, say, before the age of 15, are you?
>
> I believe _most_ people who are going to be lifelong
>
> conlangers start before the age of 18 or so. This is
>
> based on all the introductions and surveys I've seen
>
> here over the years. I have not used the term Real
> Conlanger ever, as far as I can recall.
>
> >I'm in the "triggered by conlangs online" camp, but
> possibly because I had
> >previously gotten the impression that you had to be
> a linguistics professor
> >and spend thirty years minimum to produce anything
> that works.
>
> Are you saying that you once considered langmaking
> but
> were dissuaded by the impression you mentioned
> above,
> and then X number of years later you discovered that
> the
> requirements aren't so steep? That is interesting.
> If I'm
> understanding all of the above correctly, may I ask
> how old you were when you first considered
> langmaking and
> how many years went by until you actually started?
>
Yeah, this sounds like me too, actually.  I considered
making a language sometime in my early teens, (did in
fact create several vaguely-formed naming languages
for a series of imaginary countries), but I discount
these as Real Conlanging), but directed my linguistic
impulse into the study of first French, then German,
before beginning my first actual conlang at age
30-something after reading a book on creoles and
pidgins and being
 introduced to some radically different ways of doing
things, even than the Kazakh I had spent some years
learning.

Geoff


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