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started what was later to become [[Albic]] in the spring | started what was later to become [[Albic]] in the spring | ||
(northern hemisphere) of the year 2000. | (northern hemisphere) of the year 2000. | ||
What makes a good conlang? It depends on what it is made for. | |||
The kind of languages I am most interested in are fictional human | |||
languages, and a good fictional human language ought to resemble | |||
a natlang. This is also my personal taste: to me, naturalistic | |||
artlangs are beautiful, the more naturalistic, the better. | |||
Most non-naturalistic conlangs are rather ugly to my taste, | |||
though there are a few I find beautiful for some other reason. | |||
(I haven't seen a natlang yet that struck me as ugly. Not even | |||
languages with lots of uvulars, ejectives and wicked consonant | |||
clusters such as Georgian - which has its own harsh beauty.) | |||
To me, among the greatest conlangs ever created are Quenya and Sindarin, | |||
while I find Klingon rather unappealing. | |||
You may ask, why 'Weeping Elf'? Well, I have a somewhat [[Elves|Elvish]] | You may ask, why 'Weeping Elf'? Well, I have a somewhat [[Elves|Elvish]] | ||
mindset, and the madness of this world quite often makes me weep. | mindset, and the madness of this world quite often makes me weep. | ||
That's why. | That's why. | ||
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| Birth: | December 5, 1969; Lemgo, Germany |
| Profession: | web designer, free-lance artist |
| Natural languages: | German, English and a bit of Latin, French, Spanish and Japanese |
| Created conlangs: | Albic, Germanech |
| Other conlangs: | |
| Interests: | progressive rock music, science fiction, writing, roleplaying games, future studies, linguistics, history and many others |
| More information: | |
Hi, I am Jörg Rhiemeier, the Weeping Elf, founder of the League of Lost Languages. I have been into worldbuilding since I was about ten, and when I was about 16 years old, I started my first real conlang which, however, never got far. In the following years, I didn't conlang much, until I started what was later to become Albic in the spring (northern hemisphere) of the year 2000.
What makes a good conlang? It depends on what it is made for. The kind of languages I am most interested in are fictional human languages, and a good fictional human language ought to resemble a natlang. This is also my personal taste: to me, naturalistic artlangs are beautiful, the more naturalistic, the better. Most non-naturalistic conlangs are rather ugly to my taste, though there are a few I find beautiful for some other reason. (I haven't seen a natlang yet that struck me as ugly. Not even languages with lots of uvulars, ejectives and wicked consonant clusters such as Georgian - which has its own harsh beauty.) To me, among the greatest conlangs ever created are Quenya and Sindarin, while I find Klingon rather unappealing.
You may ask, why 'Weeping Elf'? Well, I have a somewhat Elvish mindset, and the madness of this world quite often makes me weep. That's why.
