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Her first conlangs started as childhood play, but as she studied the Bible her conlanging efforts grew more serious. Her studies of IE morphology had a notable Christian bent to them -- for instance, she connected the early PIE animate and inanimate genders to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and the grammaticalization of the collective to the Son. | Her first conlangs started as childhood play, but as she studied the Bible her conlanging efforts grew more serious. Her studies of IE morphology had a notable Christian bent to them -- for instance, she connected the early PIE animate and inanimate genders to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and the grammaticalization of the collective to the Son. | ||
Her travels in Asia were a defining moment when she discovered two important classical languages: Sanskrit and Old Chinese. | |||
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Sanskrit appealed to her because of its IE origin and Old Chinese because of its telegraphic syntax suggesting the state of humanity before the Fall of Adam. | |||
==Influence== | ==Influence== | ||