noviceconlangers | my turn for introductions, huh?

Hullo, I know most of you from elsewhere, but in case I don't, I'm capriox, I read a LOT (no surprise there), I sometimes attempt to write fiction, and I'm a farmer. I've been mildly obsessed with linguistics, the English language, etymology, and conlang since, oh, forever. The term conlang is actually new to me as of the twitter discussions that led to this group, but I distinctly remember my first foray into it. I read Tad William's "Tailchaser" way back in middle school (~15 years ago) which has a partial conlang in it, including a glossary of those terms and names in the back. I promptly did my best to deconstruct/re-construct that sample into a full-on language for my own imaginary games (i.e. proto-story writing). I've been hooked ever since.

For my current writing project, I'm using horribly bastardized versions of Welsh and Hebrew/other ancient semitic dialects for the languages because I don't have enough creative time for both writing and conlang'ing. (Also, Welsh looks wonderfully strange and incomprehensible when written, which fills me with glee when it results in a main character named something intimidating-looking like "Prydferthaethnen"). But I'm happy to lurk and offer tidbits I've learned and articles/references I come across.