Re: CHAT: Steg's wonderful .sig (and a question)

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
>
> You're lucky to live in such a tolerant society.  Sometimes the
> things I hear around here are just... shuddersome ;)
>
> As for conlanging in particular, the reactions I've gotten
> have usually ranged from  "Eh. <total apathy>" to "What? You're
> not one of those _Esperantists_, are you? <worried look>"
> My family, to the extent they know of it, is supportive, but
> I never really talk with them about it.  Of my friends, only one
> ever shows any particular interest, and he does it more for
> political satire reasons than for anything else, and that
> halfheartedly.
>
Yuk! I can't imagine people being so rude and insulting. Maybe I'm just
lucky. I don't normally just "bring up" my conlanging in public, but
I've had folks from work take a peek at my web pages, generally for
other reasons (anyone who's been there knows I've got some artwork
posted too). Now these folks didn't *have* to come back and say anything
about the conlanging. But invariably they do, and call it "interesting"
or "fun". These are also people that know I'm studying foreign natlangs,
and I'm guessing they sort of lump it together.

Laurie
milo@winternet.com
http://www.winternet.com/~milo

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