User:WeepingElf
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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 |
| Favourie other conlangs: | Quenya, Sindarin, Tokana, Silindion, Brithenig and other well-designed naturalistic conlangs |
| Interests: | progressive rock music, science fiction, writing, roleplaying games, future studies, linguistics, history and many others |
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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.
