User:Iuhanna

Hi!

I'm here because conlanging has been my passion since childhood, it's my "secret vice" as Tolkien put it. The story of my romantic relationship with conlangs began during childhood, after I had read a book for children and young adults about codes and ciphers. Then I started creating my own secret codes, which eventually have evolved into creating my own languages.

I've never had contact with any conlanging community, so I don't know what are the "types" of different conlangers. In my case, the process goes almost always like this: first, an idea of a conlang appears in my mind and I often think about it, modify it, work on it mentally, translate into it different words, etc (all in my head). Then there comes the time (sometimes this moment in time is very distant from the very moment of conception of the language) to get down to it and write the idea down. Seldom do I write various ideas as soon as they appear in my mind (usually this happens when it's necessary to write something right away because of incapability of "storing" some statistical data in my head).

So, that would be it, at least when it comes to my personal story of how conlanging have appeared in my life - I'm interested in your stories of such kind too! So don't be shy and write to me if you wish to - I will always respond.