"I was very surprised at just how easy you made the whole thing feel... compared to some of the conlang sites I've wandered around, this is the least technical explanation I've seen... and that's a GOOD thing. I was also surprised, and pleased, to begin to feel as though it really was OK to just make it up as I went along, and if I didn't like it, well, I could just change it.

The ideas of having to have rules, and then a ton of exceptions to them, and to need a reason why, well, those ideas are pretty hard to let go of. You helped me see that I wasn't really letting go of my organization and details, I was making it my own... and it could be a lot simpler and make more sense then anything that we normally deal with in language. A few words can certainly go a long ways."

"Things that surprised me—probably the most important (and amazing) was that most languages are not like English! I admit, that was the main factor that kept me from trying to create a language before this—I kept thinking of English's huge vocabulary (all those synonyms! Eep!), and the grammar's zillion parts and rules and exceptions, and my mind would go blank except for this polite little flashing thought, like the computer notifying you there's been an internal error and it's going to die now, thank you, of Languages are very fun things and we enjoy using them, of course, but making up one of our own is definitely beyond our abilities. Leave it to the experts (I talk to myself in the plural, sorry).

Hard on the heels of this realization—most languages are not like English—was an even happier realization of I can do this! And it's tons of fun!

The third surprise was that I like the language I've just come up with—I've named it Brescani—so much that I want to keep developing it until it's as deep as a real language, with an extensive vocabulary and everything else I'd need to use it in the real world."