Speak geek: The world of made-up language

A somewhat old article. The D'Armand Speers-teaching-his-son-Klingon story will probably persist long into Dr Speers' eighties.

I participated in a little Hol veS with Arika Okrent on a radio programme a while back. It was a challenge, and I won with honour.

I think that the people who mock conlangs the most tend to come from monoglot environments, so probably even those people, who seek to study natlangs outside of the one language they know, may baffle and perplex the monoglots.

Those who come from bilingual or polyglot backgrounds (myself included), on the other hand, would probably consider conlangs as just yet more, different languages to add to the lists of those languages they already know.