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My interest in conlanging is probably built on a combined interest in real life linguistics and worldbuilding/writing projects I get myself wrapped up in from time to time. I found this site while looking for ideas and information both for my personal project that I've be working on sporadically over the last couple years or so. | My interest in conlanging is probably built on a combined interest in real life linguistics and worldbuilding/writing projects I get myself wrapped up in from time to time. I found this site while looking for ideas and information both for my personal project that I've be working on sporadically over the last couple years or so. | ||
==Conlanging Philosophy & | ==Conlanging Philosophy & Skills== | ||
My intro to Linguistics was essentially through Conlanging and so my ability to use terms are definitely limited. I've always enjoyed experimenting with English and my limited experience with other languages, archiac forms and dialects provide me with some basis for how words can have subtlely different uses or more general connotations added to them | My intro to Linguistics was essentially through Conlanging and so my ability to use terms are definitely limited. I've always enjoyed experimenting with English and my limited experience with other languages, archiac forms and dialects provide me with some basis for how words can have subtlely different uses or more general connotations added to them. | ||
However my mindset is very firmly Western European | I think in some ways, this lack of linguistic experience benefits me in that it forces me to be inventive and try to reuse things in unique ways and invent new connotations for words to work around a lacking vocabulary. This seems to sometimes produce results that are a bit more naturalistic than a language designed from the ground up by a linguist. However, many rough patches do show through and I'm definitely glad to be picking up linguistics as I go; my next language family should be a little more polished in presentation. A further detriment is the fact that my mindset is very firmly planted in [relatively modern] Western European languages due to my relying mostly on my practical experience which mostly derives from there. This, for better or worse, inclines me toward Fantasy languages that emulate Indo-European languages, thus "Elf-Latins" so to speak. | ||
==My Projects== | ==My Projects== | ||