i really do hate conlangs though, i think theyre such a waste of time.
you are not tolkein, and even tolkein himself would admit that elvish is far from a legitimate functional language.
like, whats the point?
the satisfying thing about learning a language is the challenge of it, studying grammar, perfecting your pronunciation, learning from your mistakes, with the reward of finally being able to understand and communicate with people after years of struggle and hard work.
conlanging doesnt do that.
its just lazy tbh.
its like inventing your own sport where you cant lose because you suck at real sports, where you can change the rules at will and award yourself as many points as you like.
wheres the challenge? wheres the sense of acheivement?
and you cant even share it with others in any meaningful way because the only people who care at all about your little pet project are other nerds with their own pet projects that, lets face it, arent nearly as interesting as your own.
it was cool when it was a thing eccentric polymaths did, but the market is oversaturated. thousands of conlangs, 99.9% of them lacking even a single fluent speaker. we dont need any more.
also if were being woke about it there is a very definite 'culture-vulture' aspect to it where you think cherokee grammar is cool or irish orthography is interesting but you cant be bothered to actually learn cherokee or irish so you just pick the bits you like and frankenstein them together while discarding the boring or difficult bits. and like, those are both endangered languages of minority cultures. it just feels disrespectful to me.
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