Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people in Academia [was Re:Caryatic]

Justin Mansfield wrote:

>     This comment was of course designed to provoke laughter, and it did.
> But my family were pretty interested and asked me about it from time to
> time. They've mostly forgotten about it by now, except perhaps my aunt
> who recently caught me working on it at her house (a friend of mine had
> emailed a proposal for a Caryatic alphabet).
Since I've never actually announced that I conlang to my immediate family,
their response was naturally somewhat more muted, but was in general
along the lines you have mentioned above.  I had it on my webpage once,
and my father inquired about it, but that's about it.  I don't think they think
much about it.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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