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Are there any aspies that conlang?

Not properly. I used to make my own language when I was in middle school, but haven't touched it since then. I also studied languages from Tolkein's books and wrote poetry in them back then. Post high-school I spent some time with Klingon but I've forgotten more than I knew now. These days I mainly just play with Esperanto but I am deeply in love with its logic and beauty of sound.

Conlanging's cool. Lately, I have a writing project that will take a lot of different places with names in the languages used there. All conlangs. So while making the maps, I've been doing the bare minimum to get names-- just a syllabary. In one actual case, the extent of the work I did on one was to say "Japanese sounds, Mandarin tones." That let me get some tongue-in-cheek names like Kawa River. (Anyone know how to type accent marks? Anyone have any idea whether I should, in a story?)

I have a language that I got from a character's name. I named him Gato Neko and ran with it. (False cognates between Japanese and a language I made up are awesome. In this case, negai, which means flower in Crystal and wish in Japanese.)

I wish I did more conlanging, though. Hey, maybe my next post will be translated into that archaic language I haven't named yet.

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Most conlangers there are either: autistic, gay, or both hahaha.

I don't really hang out with other conlangers -- I just play with language by myself. Which, I guess, kind of defeats the fundamental purpose of language.

I did a little conlanging when I did a science fiction novel earlier this year, but while not as in-depth as, say, Tolkien or others, I considered, to a certain degree, the physiology of the aliens involved before constructing their words. I was also consistent in creating composite words in many cases. But I don't have a dictionary in my head, and I generally make up the syllables on the fly.

Dikeester yash aner. Yash kanzana ameaner.

Very interesting. However, what I said was "I create languages. That's how I fly."

Wa he heku owisarwa ho.

Mi no sabe "conlang", but one can re or de or simply construct a sense.

Had a post on the issue a while back. A few of us, I would say. I am into lingos and have done quite a bit,Çidrŏkæb through AroBuwehhe to [most recently in the interest of obscure lyrics] NeoMixolydian, Number One Son has dabbled.

Why should the NT world speak all the incomprehensible languages?

This was a favorite pastime for a while many years back, though I was more into creating alphabets and writing systems. I had a pretty elaborate system at one point, but never got far in developing my own language. If I ever manage to have a lot of free, unstressed time, to create my own fully-functional language is high on my list of things I'd like to do in my life.

Yes, I've conlanged before (I'm an aspie). It got pretty in-depth but I sort of gave up on it.

Right now I'm working on a hybrid conlang/encoding device, which will have diacritical marks that indicate the english word it originally came from; it doesn't make as much sense when I try to explain it. xD

i have, quite a bit, over the years. besides making my own (Glaugnea), i have written in Klingon, Taneraic (which i especially recommend for its vocabulary), an early form of Vorlin, Volapuk, & of course Lojban (which i have written 3 short books in). for years i wrote in nothing but Esperanto during the "dog days". there was a project in which the portmanteau words created by artists ("pwoermds") received my inscrutable definitions--the internalational contradictionary--some form of it may still be online somewhere.

i like to make up new meanings, & name things that have not yet been distinguished by existing language. in retrospect, it seems that i have been trying to make up for the shortcomings of natural language to describe my own experience.

not much time right now, & for awhile. the internet has made me very aware of all the people out there with similar interests; some of them are amazing.

I used to when I was a kid. Not some much these days--I'm too busy. But sometimes I dabble a bit with when I'm writing. The main novel I'm writing now has a slang dialect that I've created based on a mixture of British and American slang and Arabic. But it doesn't figure prominently into the novel--it's just a side element.

Jes, mi lengwoz konstrɯkta. Txe xe u praktiko evolgare intere Ehaspergixoz esed, mi n'sented.

Nobe. Neeber. Boot ah sumtahms don mand muckin aboot wid Anglish rools of spilling and gramma.

Ah yoozed ta thanck it halps whin yer tipping int so goot, boot iz akchully mush moor hardlier kuz t rakwarz u lout mour thanckin.

Ezz verri shloe ackchully.