If you're interested in this sort of thing, there's lots of community resources to help you get into the hobby. As mentioned in the interview, the Language Creation Society (conlang.org) is a good place to start, but there's also:
The Conlangery Podcast (http://conlangery.com/), which covers a mix of serious linguistics and artistic conlanging, with case studies of both natural and artificial languages.
Fiat Lingua (http://fiatlingua.org/), a monthly publication by the LCS on conlanging topics, and Speculative Grammarian (http://specgram.com/) a humourous journal of satirical linguistics.
And finally The Conlang Mailing List (archives as https://listserv.brown.edu/conlang.html). The members are generally friendly, international, possessed of a wealth of accumulated wisdom, and usually pretty good about explaining things and helping out newbies.
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If you're interested in this sort of thing, there's lots of community resources to help you get into the hobby. As mentioned in the interview, the Language Creation Society (conlang.org) is a good place to start, but there's also:
The Conlangery Podcast (http://conlangery.com/), which covers a mix of serious linguistics and artistic conlanging, with case studies of both natural and artificial languages.
The Language Construction Kit (http://www.zompist.com/kit.html), which was on HN a few days ago, and the associated Zompist Bulletin Board (http://www.incatena.org/).
Fiat Lingua (http://fiatlingua.org/), a monthly publication by the LCS on conlanging topics, and Speculative Grammarian (http://specgram.com/) a humourous journal of satirical linguistics.
And finally The Conlang Mailing List (archives as https://listserv.brown.edu/conlang.html). The members are generally friendly, international, possessed of a wealth of accumulated wisdom, and usually pretty good about explaining things and helping out newbies.