Perspective On Conlangs!
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bloodyrosemccoyA tl;dr Q&A in the NY Times about conlangs
Not a very satisfactory “panel” there—Okrent’s not a conlanger but a sort of outside ethnographer, and Frommer’s a little tangled up in Na’vi right now. It’s most interesting to me as a sort of snapshot of how folks who never thought much about conlanging approach it.* I kind of like reminding myself that not everyone takes for granted the things I do.
*In a lot of cases, with an almost entertaining veiled hostility. Count how many of the questions subtly note that there are a lot of better ways a conlanger could be spending their time! It’s made me decide to start asking vaguely insulting questions about hobbies I don’t share! “Couldn’t you spend that time you use playing football to volunteer at a soup kitchen?” “Don’t you have enough quilts by now? Why make more?”** “Who’s going to look at this sketchbook, anyway?”
**Actually, somebody asked my mom this.
Not a very satisfactory “panel” there—Okrent’s not a conlanger but a sort of outside ethnographer, and Frommer’s a little tangled up in Na’vi right now. It’s most interesting to me as a sort of snapshot of how folks who never thought much about conlanging approach it.* I kind of like reminding myself that not everyone takes for granted the things I do.
*In a lot of cases, with an almost entertaining veiled hostility. Count how many of the questions subtly note that there are a lot of better ways a conlanger could be spending their time! It’s made me decide to start asking vaguely insulting questions about hobbies I don’t share! “Couldn’t you spend that time you use playing football to volunteer at a soup kitchen?” “Don’t you have enough quilts by now? Why make more?”** “Who’s going to look at this sketchbook, anyway?”
**Actually, somebody asked my mom this.
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Date: 2010-03-13 07:16 am (UTC)THE PORN IS FOR A SELECT FEW THANK YOU the rest is on Deviantart where I can use my powers for evil.
Also need more work on conlang sometimes I forget exactly how to speak it.
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Date: 2010-03-13 07:58 am (UTC)Hell, I don't know how to speak most of my conlangs. I'm not bad with sprite language, but since I'm trying to artificially evolve it, that will quickly become obsolete. I'll be the last speaker of a dead conlang!