What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
Yeah I've had this issue too, but it hasn't stopped me trying. I do try my best to understand the linguistics stuff enough to make sure my language is making sense, but it feels like a never-ending battle as there's always more you can learn and add. I'm kinda fine with that though, and if it weren't for conlanging I wouldn't have realised I was into linguistics and started studying it at university.
Ah, indeed. If I am remembering things correctly, I was like "huh, so there are a lot of things I need to learn about languages in order to pull this off, but where do I start?" I guess I could have just started with what I know, adapting my native language's verb system and fusing it with Esperanto's word-building mechanism, which would have made things really agglutinative with affixes for the verb's tense, mood, and whatnot with roots that can themselves be combinations of simpler roots. Like, I guess
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. However, considering how little I know of the actual machinations of my native language's verb system....It's also a shame that I was already six years into a five year course when I even had a clue I was into this. Am I just making excuses for myself? Likely. But yeah.
I get that perfect can be the enemy of good (or any progress), and I should probably just start, but I'm aware that I am not that into linguistics and I want to spend my time other places. That's awesome that it helped you figure out what you wanted to do though, that's a huge win.