The CBB

Hi ConlangConstructor,

Yeah, I'd noticed you were in Missouri, too.

Cool.

Aliases: sorry, that's classified Location: Columbia, Missouri, but born & raised in NY Date of Birth: April 1966 Gender: Male Occupation: Actor, Director (film/stage), Teacher, Historian, Anthropologist, Linguist, Cartoonist, Artist, Professional Clown & Puppeteer Interests: ancient civiliz...

I am a Loyalist. In fact, I seem to fit that initial description pretty well! My wife seems to think my language is a masterpiece, anyway! I think the kids just take it for granted. One of my daughters refers to it as our "secret family language". Doesn't every family have its own language?

Yeah, I wasn't really going for plausability.

Just wanted folks to remember that languages & cultures aren't disposable.

It is a good thing for oppressed cultures to be able to revitalize their languages. One of the primary ways the Native Americans were conquered was linguistically. They were forced to abandon their own languages and only learn English. The same thing happened in Japan, to the Ainu. Language death me...

Once I had kids, I started teaching my conlang to them. Having someone speaking it back to me made me learn it pretty fast! Sometimes it still freaks me out that the kids speak a language I made up.

So, can you actually converse in your conlang?

If I came up to you and asked you a series of questions in your language, would you be able to spontaneously answer me? Or would you have to look it up?

O_O

Yes, I have an English-Mosro / Mosro-English dictionary.

Yefasima

It means "the day/the world/life is enchanting/beautiful/wonderful/magical".

Conlang milestones are cool.

Congrats to anyone whose conlang is over 2000 words! I remember that day!

Extra congrats to anyone who conlang is over 10,000 words! You have my respect!

fralmasheeshna: death celebration

next word: luck

Mosro has its own scripts.

Hmm, this thread is very educational.

I always created my own Mosro words, or built new words upon existing Mosro words. I guess in my own mind I thought it was "against the rules" to borrow from natlangs!

My Swahili dictionary has about 35,000 words in it.

A Mosro accent would sound similar to a Russian or German one.