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Originally Posted by Kelpie Ah, so I'm not the only one here crazy enough to try this. There are at least three of us. |
Four! Like most people I was inspired by Tolkien to think about inventing langauges but I also really love words and started out making character and palce names. I spent the summer of 2000, between school and university, working on a language for my story (I probably should have been outside in the sun instead of making strange noises to see what I could come up with). Since taking up my computer keyboard again recently I've started reviewing the work I did and I'm trying to work on divising a root language from the words I've already made. I want to build a much bigger vocabulary that I have at the moment and try to make it all tie together through the root langauge.
It is rather madness inducing sometimes, especially trying to create words that look different but can be pronounced, and look attractive to, English speakers (sine the story they accompany is written in English). And when someone says "how do you say 'hello'" and I realise I can't remember the word!