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> Betreff: Re: "Doing Fieldwork on Constructed Languages"

> On May 1, 2010, at 1◊17 PM, Mechthild Czapp wrote:
> >
> >> Throw Away Your DAT Recorder: Only one in every 152 thousand created
> >> languages is ever spoken aloud—and of those, only 2.3% are spoken by
> >> more than one person (i.e. the constlangoleur him- or herself) at any
> >> point during the language’s existence. As a result, you’ll likely
> not
> >> find any use for an audio recording device.
> >
> > Sooo true! I would so have issues saying something in KHMG or JSG...
> OTOH, I can speak rejistanian and am understood in it at least a bit by my
> SO*, so I guess that is an exception (you can say what you want about its
> naïve phonology, it DOES have the advantage of being easy to speak at least
> for me).
>
>
> My wife knows several words in my various languages, but only
> because we use them as names for World of Warcraft characters
> and cats.
>
> -David

RPs are a big factor here as well (frex: ymeti). Also computers. The fact that my ancient almost-old-enough-to-drink computer is called sydi (fast) and other boxen have similar ironic names surely helped.
 
Any ideas how to make a SO want to learn enough Rejistanian (or JSG or KHMG) so that we can pretend to completely confuse my parents (who still do not understand the fascination of conlanging). I like practical jokes and while this would be an elaborate one, IMNSCO it would be worth it.


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