Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people

At 04:38 AM 7/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
>     As I told you yesterday, I presented my mother the children's book in
>eight languages (six real, two mine) today, and I received the absolute
>strangest reaction from one person.  I could have never imagined it.
>     I was talking to someone else, and an aunt of mine (who doesn't see me
>often) was looking at the book and my girlfriend was at hand.  This aunt came
>to my first language (Megdevi, with an Arabic-like script) and became very
>confused and said, "What's this one?"  My girlfriend said, "Oh, that's a
>language David made."  To which she simply replied, "Oh, I see".  Totally
>satisfied, not confused or perturbed at all, didn't even raise another
>question in her.  She just saw a language she couldn't recognize, and she
>must have thought something like, "Oh, he made it, that's why I don't
>recognize it."  I imagined any number of reactions from the apathetic to the
>mildly amused to the outlandishly offended; this I hadn't planned for.

"What's that?"
"It's one of David's whacky art things."
"Oh, I see."

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