hello, how are you?
the lingua mundi project looks relatively promising. but i still
think that the whole ,,not just for linguists,, argument is a little
idealistic. we must admit, althought the conlang community has been
growing more than exponentially in these last years, we are still a
minority in the english speaking world, in which i would think, is
the majority of us. ive been amazed by the number of french and
portugese conlangers, but havent yet found a spanish conlang group. i
am a native mexican, and i would like to see some enthusiasm [if any
of you know of spanish-native conlangs, please inform me.
ive only recently ,,entered,, the conlanging community online, as
late as last year i still thought that conlanging had had its heyday
back in the fifty years after esperanto came out of poland.
i am a high school student, so probably stilll very naive in many
respects. even my grammar, which is, im proud to say, acceptable,
could do with some refining. im scared to death of gerunds. however,
from what ive seen, with the explosion of constructed languages has
come a really dangerous chaos and lack of structure. yahoo groups
alone, there seems to be a painful absence of a sense of community,
which i think is odd, seeing as to how other, larger groups such as
stamp collectors and whatnot have managed to stick together. i
understand that conlanging is a lonely work, unless you have the
incredibly good luck of having a friend with whom you share this
interest. but even then, each of you will eventually venture your
own way, wanting creative control of your ,,masterpiece,,.
but anyway. if someone is going to become involved in a lingua mundi,
or anything of the sort, they must have a deep desire to see it
through to the end, a strong love and admiration of language. this is
what i think is the essence of a linguist. but i might be wrong,
whatever. i dont mean this to be an authoriative treatise or anything
of the sort. conlangers should get together sometime and get to know
each other. is there no association currently in existence that is in
a position to do this? i dont mean something like the people who
built interlingua. [please, ,,interliguists,, dont take this the
wrong way. interlingua is a beautiful work of art, esperanto seems
clunky compared to it, this coming from a young esperantist] because
that was markedly a romance language, and it was made, to my
understanding, by professional ,,linguists,, whatever that means. i
think that conlang enthusiasts as a whole may be more linguistically
progressive, since we are mostly working by ourselves, in our living
rooms, making languages in front of the tv or eating fast food. i
might be alond in thei