Re: IntroductionThanks for the welcome to Conlang. I am very glad I was told about i

En réponse à John L. Leland :

>Thanks for the welcome to Conlang. I am very glad I was told about it at
>Kalamazoo.
And we're glad you're here :) . Newcomers are always welcome! (Is John
gonna do his "new blooood" thing again? ;))))) )

>I have to say, I may not be able to stay on if it goes into another huge
>batch of off-topic discussion--it literally took me hours to wade through
>it, the
>first few days I was on.
It's true that offtopic messages are a bit overcrowding the list lately
(and I admit being responsible for a big portion of them) but at the same
time they are part of what makes this list so unique in the world of
Internet: however offtopic it can be, each post always have interesting and
challenging information, and it helps you broaden your point of view thanks
to our small international community (quite practical when you're
conculturing too, as it helps finding other viewpoints than the ones of
your birthculture).

>About myself and my conlangs: I am 53 years old, and began creating my first
>major conlang in 1962 when I was12. (Sara in her paper at Kalamazoo noted many
>begin conlangs about that age).
Indeed. I started at that same age too.

>That language was Natece Atechana (Sacred
>Language) ; it was supposed to be the deliberately invented sacred
>language of a
>conworld.
Hehe, my Notya is also a deliberately invented sacred language of a secret
order of a parallel Earth, but I never worked a lot on it actually.

>was a crude language with many obvious borrowings from English, Latin and
>German (the natlangs I knew at the time).Natece eventually became a "dead"
>language
>in that I was no longer developing that conworld, though the language became
>a sacred/magical language in another conworld, chiefly developed for solo D&D,
>called the World of the Intercosmic Collapse (WIC for short) which I began in
>1976.
My birth year! :))

>  In that world there are theoretically several conlangs, but the only
>one developed significantly so far is Meridonian, a Romance conlang
>derived from
>Latin by a regular set of sound (and spelling) changes; at least, High Court
>Meridonian is supposed to be regular, though Low Meridonian consists of any
>Romance word I happen to think of when I need it, run through the
>sound/spelling
>changes.
Interesting. Do you know of the Romanceconlang workshop, an offspring of
this list? It is available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romanceconlang.

>  It occupies a cultural position in that world roughly that of French
>in our world's high middle ages. It has never been as systematically worked
>out as Natece or my recent inventions.  After many years in which I did only
>slight casual conlanging,
LOL, I like the expression :)) .

>  a few years ago I had another major burst, in which
>the principal developed conlang is Rihana-ye  varoha (Coldland-of speech)(more
>properly Rihana-ye fivaroha, Coldland-of language). I have written quite a few
>texts,mostly fairly short, in this language, and some of them I typed and
>circulated in Elanor, an APA loosely associated with the Mythopoeic Society.
>Apparently I cannot attach them to mailings to this list (I tried and it
>bounced)
>but I couldsend them individually to anyone interested.
If you want to make a webpage with them (what's commonly done around here),
I can always provide you with some webspace (check the archives at
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html for "Free webspace" for a
description of my offer :) ).

>I hope now
>with the inspiration of the Conlang
>list audience to go back and develop Rihana-ye and the other langs of
>thatconworld more.
This list is indeed a goldmine for inspiration :) .

Anyway, Welcome again!

Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.