Re: I'm new!

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:48:25PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> [snip]
> > Am I the only person who *didn't* start conlanging in earnest (as opposed
> > to the pathetic 6th grade semi-French-rune-English attempt that doesnt'
> > count) before the age of 20?  <pulling a face>
>
> Heh. Read my other post. My first several "conlang" attempts were merely
> bland conscripts obviously ripped off the English alphabet... I didn't
> actually start *thinking* about doing actual grammars until the last few
> years, and didn't actually get anything *done* until the past few months.
> :-P
Hey, better than the one mainly-ripped-off-the-English-alphabet conlang
that basically had French grammar, because at the time I wasn't
intelligent enough to try to analyze what little I knew of Korean
grammar.  (I really *must* get my parents to teach me more this winter.)

My one 6th grade conscript wasn't actually a script, just a cipher based
on runes and written like Korean.  I'm a cheapskate with ideas.  =^)

> > YHL, looking around virtually at all the brilliant people out there
>
> You've published novels, and I've hardly even written anything that could
> comes close to being fit for publication, and I'm supposed to be
> brilliant? Hmm. ;-)
Short stories, not novels.  (Though having a published novel would help
me pay off loans...somewhat!)  I see all sorts of beautiful conlang ideas
pass me by in this forum, and some of them, OC, are yours!  :-)  Perhaps
it's a specialization issue: since 3rd grade I've specialized myself
toward fantasy (and later sf) writing.  I didn't know enough about the
language aspect of worldbuilding to really make a crack at it until
fairly recently, and I'll probably never know half as much about language
as a lot of people here, but hey--that means I'll always have neat stuff
to learn.

YHL, more sane now that she has a quiz and a prelim out of the way