Introductions Are In Order

Hello all! I'll start off by introducing myself so everyone knows a little bit more about where I come from. My name is Erik Wilson, I'm 18 years old and I'm currently in my 4th semester attending GCC. Attending GCC for what you ask? Well that’s a very good question, and I'm not sure I know the answer myself. But before we get into that, lets start somewhere a little less complex, how about why I'm taking a linguistics class. 

While I don't plan to go into language as any sort of job or carrier, I do want to learn more about the subject. I have always been fascinated by other languages, and how they are structured different from our own.  I'm particularly interested in constructed and synthetic languages, that is, languages that someone built or designed as opposed to ones that developed naturally. Now if your wondering what kind of languages those are, prepare yourself for the completely nerdy response. The languages that I've been interested are have been languages such as Elvish, Navi, Dothraki, and Klingon. All of these are made up languages for books, TV shows, and movies of a geeky nature. I have always been a big geek and loved sci-fi and fantasy. That combined with my love of language quickly lead me to be interested in these fake languages.  

(A sample of Sindarin. The elvish language created by J.R.R. Tolkien)

A Little bit more information about myself, being such a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy I am a very avid gamer. But despite the stereotype this brings to mind I'm actually very active. I love to go hiking, backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, camping and pretty much anything outdoors. I have also been teaching myself parkour these past few months.  

Now to the subject of my carrier. I have always loved building things, tinkering in the garage and such. And in the last year or so I've combined my knack for building things with my love for sci-fi and fantasy to start my own business, Polygon Props, as a prop maker. What this means is that I build prop replicas of various  thing from video games and movies, (although it's mostly space guns) 

(A suit of armor I made from the video game Halo, worn by yours truly)

So I build suits of armor and weapons for people from their favorite games and TV shows. while it's still small right now, I would eventually like to turn this hobby into a full time carrier, and maybe even make props for big name movies one day. So that’s a little about me. I hope it gave you some insight into the person behind the blog. and I look forward to sharing my thoughts with you over the next few months.