Re: I'm new!

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:48:25 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
writes:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Adam Walker wrote:
>
> > I'm an aged 29 (or 30 if you count Chinese-style) now, but I
> started my
> > first conlang (long since deceased) the week before my 12th
> birthday.  I
> > remember because my mom was in the hospital pregnant and on the
> verge of
> > death.  Both she and my little brother came through fine and my
> conlanging
> > bug was born.
That's a very interesting story. I'm 29 going on 30 myself, and much of
my interest in languages, natural and artificial, was inspired by the
fall of communision in Eastern Europe, especially Russia and the former
USSR.

> Hello to everyone on the list who wasn't on it when last I posted.
> (I'm
> out of it--coming down with something that's looking increasingly
> like
> the bronchitis I fought off two years ago, schoolwork, more stuff I
> won't
> bore you with.)  :-)
I get recurring bronchitis and sinus myself, plus I'm asthmatic. I'm not
sure where all that comes from...

> 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>
>
> YHL, looking around virtually at all the brilliant people out there
Well I didn't *really* out myself as a conlanger until I discovered this
list, but I've read some of Tolkien as a pre-teen and have shown a
tendency to make up words (not exactly an entire language) at about
twelve or thirteen. My two years of high school French sure did help.

Daniel A. Wier
Lufkin, Texas
http://homestead.juno.com/dawier/