My best friend and I had our own written language in year 8. We were studying Ancient Egypt, so we came up with a pictograph system so we could pass notes in class and not get caught.
Paid off when our history teacher grabbed a note we were passing. She was in the habit of reading them out to the class. She swooped on ours with a gleeful grin, picked it up and her face visibly fell. So funny. She looked at us with this look that said "Well...I don't know whether to yell at you, or to be impressed" put it down, and went on with the class.
I can't remember what it said, but it was something about her looking like a freak :)
I can still write/translate the language, but it takes a while to translate...I can do it in my head though.
Edit: Wait, that's more of a code than a language, isn't it? Bugger.
Isn't the whole point of language to communicate? Who will you communicate with...yourself? Why don't you just think to yourself? I guess it could be a bit cool, but I don't see why you don't just learn a different language which actually enables you to speak with new people.
bleh shooba rubo geeka gloop baaaaaaaa...hmm I guess it is a bit fun....baaaaaaaa
Linguists have shown that language has a great effect on how we think about things and view the world. I would structure my language to be quick and efficient to say and to have lots of inflections, conjugations, declinations,... in order to indicate things that are typically either ambiguous in English or take forever to say.
Yes, it's normal. My cousin and I actually did once. Man, that was so long ago. It's complicated and you'd have to kind of learn Spanish to learn it. But I do think it was worth it.
I think everyone should do it. Even once in their life and just share it with one person. You never know where it'll take you, anyway.
I crafted my own words for a language once before. Mind you it was not a full one. But it was nice using the few dozen phrases that only I knew. If you have the imagination and the time- you should try it.
My best friend in college studies linguistics and has come up with multiple different languages. It's rather intersting. Not only that, but he also does things like romanticize english, de-german french, yada yada. He's awesome.
Look up "Conlang", or constructed language. A lot of people make these and they can be tons of fun! It's an especially popular practice among people writing fantasy or sci-fi books when they need a foreign language for their aliens to speak or whatnot. There are guides available for creating really deep, fully-fleshed-out languages complete with their own phonetic sounds and grammatical rules, etc.
Paid off when our history teacher grabbed a note we were passing. She was in the habit of reading them out to the class. She swooped on ours with a gleeful grin, picked it up and her face visibly fell. So funny. She looked at us with this look that said "Well...I don't know whether to yell at you, or to be impressed" put it down, and went on with the class.
I can't remember what it said, but it was something about her looking like a freak :)
I can still write/translate the language, but it takes a while to translate...I can do it in my head though.
Edit: Wait, that's more of a code than a language, isn't it? Bugger.
bleh shooba rubo geeka gloop baaaaaaaa...hmm I guess it is a bit fun....baaaaaaaa
I think everyone should do it. Even once in their life and just share it with one person. You never know where it'll take you, anyway.
It wasn't one that could be spoken, but It could be written.
In our language, Each Letter had a Corresponding Number, so we could Take our Charts and Translate Easly.