Re: CHAT: How conlangers are treated by mortals (was: HELP: Is this sensible?)

On Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 06:44 PM, Henrik Theiling wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I renamed the thread.  I don't think it's off-topic, since most people
> have experienced how 'mortals' react when exposed to a conlanger. :-)
> That's always fun. :-)
>
> Carsten Becker <post@...> writes:
[snip]
>> The "depressing" bit is, Ayeri is my third attempt. OK - I'm conlanging
>> only since about Spring 2003, so about for a year.
>
> Haha, but your first attempt, according to your home page, was still
> in 2003, right?  You should not find it depressing if your conlangs do
> not yet get the structure you would like.  Most people work on their
> conlangs for years, decades and whole lives before they like it and
> think they understand the internal structure.
	Don't I know it!   :=(

How many decades had briefscript/BrSc been haunting me?

But I guess Carsten is much younger than me. I recall that in my teens I
was churning out two, three or more conlangs a year - and that was for a
an audience of none. No Conlang in those day, no internet - indeed,
precious few computers on the whole of our planet!

> Please, no depression on conlanging!
Certainly not! If only Conlang had been about half a century ago {sigh}

> We will eagerly answer the
> strangest questions until you are totally happy with your languages!
> :-)
We certainly will - and a language is like a work of art: it's never
perfect.

Ray
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