> My Dear Friends,
> 
> 
> 
>                 I am wondering, how many of us are still working upon our
> first language even after a considerable period of time has passed? 
*raises hand* I started Rejistanian in 2001. Xe'seve ji xe'sikire jilih kimda. (I still use and improve it)

> I
> would
> think that those of us who first started creating a language and have
> never
> veered away from it would have a different relationship with it than those
> who have created multiple languages.  Obviously there are some of us who
> dream up many tongues, some who have created more than one, but one among
> the kindred has become the dominant language, and perchance a few of us
> who
> have never even started a second project.  And I wonder, oh ye who have
> always remained faithful to the first language, would it even be possible
> for you to dream up a second language?
> 
I did create Kenshuite He Mo Gie, Lajik and some sketches which were killed by a harddisk with a good sense for aesthetics especially when  phonology is concerned. But these languages were more one-night stands compared to my `marriage' with Rejistanian.

> 
> 
>                 For my part I would say that my relationship with Babel
> and
> its world is somewhat akin to what I imagine an arranged marriage must be.
>  As
> strange as the work may be at times, we have grown accustomed together.
I guess this does play a role, yes, it is a language I know. I don't have to think "How would rejistanian do it?" I just need to reach the mental iti'het and most of the time, things immediately fall into place. It is the home, so to say, not a hotel room in a foreign city. I have a love-hate relationship with Rejistanian: occasionally, it is weird and glitchy to me, but only a while later, I might find myself singing in it absent-mindedly.

Va'il veka,
~Mechthild
-- 
Sanja'xen mi'lanja'kynha ,mi'la'ohix jilih, nka.

My life would be easy if it was not so hard!



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