1st Language Creation Conference: 23 April 2006

Attendees

Name: Arthaey Angosii
Contact Info: http://conlang.arthaey.com/
Conlangs: Asha'ille
- Affiliation:
  Aspects/School: naturalistic artlangs, conscripts, and concultures
  Blurb: Talk to me about your artlang, conscript, or conculture (or listen to me talk about mine *grin*). I'm also looking for interested penpals for an conlang-learning exchange.
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Name: Doug Ball
Contact Info: http://tsketar.tripod.com/
Conlangs: Skerre, Tanach-a Shile
- Affiliation: Stanford
  Aspects/School: Realistic Artlanging, Application of linguistic theories to conlanging
  Blurb: Eastern Austronesian languages, North American languages, noun incorporation, case-marking and the like, clitics, polysynthesis, linguistic theories (OT, Evolutionary Phonology, non-morpheme based morphology, LFG, HPSG)
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Name: Josh Brandt-Young
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Conlangs: Seadi, Tjaren; Esperanto
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  Aspects/School: Phonology, historical change
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Name: Richard Brodie
Contact Info: http://www.richardbrodie.com/
Conlangs: Chromaphonoglyphics
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  Aspects/School: Conscripting
  Blurb: Passions: anagramming, translating Middle English poetry, introducing/perfecting the new writing paradigm represented by CPG.
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Name: Jeff Burke
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Conlangs: The Central Mountain Family
- Affiliation:
  Aspects/School: Naturalistic artlangs
  Blurb: Algonquian, Iroquoian, morphology, phonology
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Name: Sally Caves (a.k.a. Sarah Highley)
Contact Info: http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html
Conlangs: Created: Teonaht; Known: Lingua Ignota; trying to know: Laadan, Kelen, Tokana, Klingon, Lojban.
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  Aspects/School: a priori inventions, fictional languages, personal or private languages.
  Blurb: About my lifelong devotion to Teonaht, about its world, about earlier language experiments, about invented scripts, artwork, conlanging as poetry.
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Name: Jonathan Christensen
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Conlangs: A very rudimentary beginning state of Orrenic
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  Aspects/School: Typology, sematic construction, the language/culture interface, morphology, writing systems
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Name: Terrana Cliff
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Conlangs: Betamaze
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  Aspects/School: I'm particularly interested in writing systems.
  Blurb: Betamaze.
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Name: John E. Clifford
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  Aspects/School: Logical languages, minimal languages, off-the-wall languages (violate "universals")
  Blurb: All and any of the above
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Name: James Dee
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Name: Kelly Drinkwater
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Conlangs: Skuigelz
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  Aspects/School: Artlanging in general, conscripting in particular
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Name: Brent E. Edwards
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Conlangs: Esperanto
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  Aspects/School: Auxlangs. Simplicity of learning mixed with expressiveness. Use of auxlangs for global trade, communication in science, and understanding.
  Blurb: Auxlangs and global languages. I believe in a two-language solution to global communication: your home language and a global auxlang.
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Name: Aidan Elliott-McCrea
Contact Info: http://www.sedesdraconis.com/
Conlangs: none yet; though some conscripts: Kedan, Serela, Imirn
- Affiliation: UC Santa Cruz, ZBB
  Aspects/School: Naturalistic Artlanging, Holistic World-Building, Alien Languages, Sign Langauges, Writing Systems
  Blurb: Conbiology, Albatross, Random Esoteric Information
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Name: Sai Emrys, aka Ilya Starikov
Contact Info: http://saizai.livejournal.com
Conlangs: n/a
- Affiliation: Conference organizer. Teacher of the Conlangs DE-Cal. Founder of Language Creation Society.
  Aspects/School: I'm actually not a conlanger (gasp!) - I'm a meta-conlanger. I am interested in creating new conlang 'tech', pushing the bounds of what language can do, and applying Sapir-Whorf towards beneficial consciouness manipulation.
  Blurb: Talk to me about anything conference-related, nonlinear writing systems, cogsci, conlangs teaching, or anything else that's neat.
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Name: Carol Anne Hagele
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Conlangs: Little known/none created
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  Aspects/School: Interested in seeing how far Sarah Higley's language has come since she trapped me in the tree house 35 years ago on a sweltering summer day and tried to teach me "Heaven Cat".
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Name: Matthew Haupt
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Conlangs: Peetik - Work In Progress
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  Aspects/School: Currently I'm creating words using Ogden's Basic English and Harrison's Universal Language Dictionary; I like what Henning says about creating a "proto-language"/ancestral tongue that the actual language is based on and morphs into. My language, at this time, is only a proto-language!
  Blurb: Aspects of a full, "living" language vs. obvious signs of a constructed language; also the sound and feel of a language (Klingon is obviously harsh, Quenya is very liquid).
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Name: Neil Howell
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Name: Christopher Husch
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Conlangs: Anas
- Affiliation: I'm the official representative of the Zompist Bulletin Board, an online community of conlangers.
  Aspects/School: Naturalist. I make conlangs for a conworld intended to be Earthlike (so none of that ridiculous aversion to European-style langs that seems to infect everyone! As long as they're well-done, I enjoy making/learning about all types of languages).
  Blurb: O goodness gracious. I don't know. I'm not really very interesting; I haven't a whole lot to say about myself.
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Name: Jianying Ji
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  Aspects/School: conlang as base for fiction. unique writing systems
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Name: Gabriel (or "Gabe") Koulikov
Contact Info: http://www.daviswiki.org/GabeKoulikov
Conlangs: Currently known: Beginner-level Esperanto, basic Lojban grammar. Created: just started working on Baseline Bipentahexadecimal
- Affiliation: UC Davis, Science and Technology Studies Major
  Aspects/School: Anything that helps to optimally articulate one's thoughts and communicate to others in such a way that the intended meaning is maximally understood, how language learning/creation relates to learning any other subject matter/pioneering a new discipline, etc.
  Blurb: "Saving the world" in a serious way (so far defined as "helping the most people in the best way that lasts the longest"). I'm interested in setting up mutually beneficial relationships and taking action to make the most of the short time and limited resources each of us has been given in this life.
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Name: Douglas Nerad
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  Aspects/School: I'm an amateur "conlinguist". I like language in general and enjoy the process of creating and learning rudimentary languages.
  Blurb: I am interested in conlangs for world building with the ultimate goal of using it for writing projects and private speech among friends.
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Name: Adam Parrish
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  Aspects/School: Personal languages, constructed language in fiction
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Name: Matt Pearson
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Conlangs: Tokana, Thh-tmaa
- Affiliation: Linguistics Department, Reed College
  Aspects/School: Artlangs, 'naturalistic' conlanging, conlanging and linguistic models/theories, alien communication, constructed languages in SF/F literature.
  Blurb: Any of the above...
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Name: David J. Peterson
Contact Info: http://dedalvs.free.fr/
Conlangs: Kamakawi, Zhyler, Epiq, Kelenala, Sathir, Njaama, Sheli, Gweydr, Tan Tyls, X, KNSL, Wasabi, Megdevi
- Affiliation: UCSD
  Aspects/School: naturalist, CSL (consignlanguages), creoles, visual languages
  Blurb: I live for morphology, though phonology and orthography are two of my favorite hobbies.
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Name: John Quijada
Contact Info: http://www.ithkuil.net
Conlangs: Ithkuil / IlXML error: Invalid character at line 273