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Q&A Should I create my own ConLang for my story?

Hire someone else to do it instead. There are thousands of conlangers looking for work and eager to work on any project, whether it be a motion picture or a short story collection. You can hire con...

posted 9y ago by David J. Peterson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:05:08Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/16416
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar David J. Peterson‭ · 2019-12-08T04:05:08Z (over 4 years ago)
Hire someone else to do it instead. There are thousands of conlangers looking for work and eager to work on any project, whether it be a motion picture or a short story collection. You can hire conlangers using the [LCS Jobs Board](http://jobs.conlang.org/).

That said, when it comes to _using_ the language in the book, Card's advice is pretty good. Even being a professional language creator, I prefer not to have to work for a translation when reading. That's precisely what supplementary material is for. If I'm interested, I'll look that up and actually work through the translations later. For reading, I don't want to have to make reference to extra material, be it a family tree, a map, or a dictionary.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-03-07T02:34:02Z (about 9 years ago)
Original score: 2