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Actually, on second thought, I should be the last one to comment on that, as I typically get home from work in the evening, and then set about working on various pieces of software I'm developing... which ultimately will have little practical use and will probably net me almost no money.
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Don't worry; I'm used to comments like that
. Most people don't even realize that this hobby exists, or that anyone who does it really takes it seriously.
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As a more serious question, do you have a background in linguistics or anything like that? Knowledge of how various languages are formed or structured? Or is developing your own language, in effect, a way to learn linguistics? Just curious...</strong>
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I'm a 'self-taught' linguist; I understand (because I love grammar) some of the 'technical talk,' and I am an English major, so I've been exposed to discussions on semantics and minor points of what words can mean. I'm also pretty fluent in Spanish, though better at reading it than speaking it, and have had some exposure to Latin, so I know various other ways (e.g., relying on inflection and declension) that languages can work rather than English's analytical, isolationist system. This is also the second fantasy language that I've created in detail; I have another one that numbers about 3500 'pure' words and has a near-complete grammar. And I've written over seventy fantasy novels set in the world of this language, so I know the cultural background. (It's the Biblical background I'm hazy on
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Long answer to a short question: No, I don't have a formal background in linguistics. But I am, more or less, progressing along the road to get there someday.
-Perchance.