Re: CHAT: Introduction

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:30:26AM -0500, Geoff Horswood wrote:
> Greetings, fellow conlangers!
san tse!


[...]
> My name's Geoff Horswood, I'm 31, English, married to a Texan, and have
> lived in Kazakhstan for 3-odd years.  I speak my native English, can
> translate to and from American English :), and am fairly fluent in Kazakh.
Wait, is that American English as in American English, or Texan? ;-)


[...]
> So far I'm developing my second conlang, which doesn't have a name yet (for
> the moment it goes by the name of the nation that speak it- Xinkutlan).
> It's a VSO agglutinating (probably) language spoken by a late bronze-age
> tribe in a parallel earth I'm developing, where iron-working is the height
> of experimental new technology.
Do you have the grammar online somewhere? Hungry conlangers wish to
devour it! ;-)


> My other conlang, Lauranthea, I've shelved for the time being.  The grammar
> was a bit fuzzy and ill-defined, and it generally needs either drastic help
> or a decent burial.  I may resurrect it at some future date.
Hmm, decent burial. I've never thought of that before. Maybe I should
conduct a formal ceremony for Ebisédian some day. (But then again, it
has refused to die so far, so perhaps this is unnecessary.)


> Well, that's the bare bones of who I am.  It's been great finding this list
> and realising I'm not as alone in my off-the-wall-ness as I once thought!
[...]

Yes, many of us thought we were alone, and insane... until we found
this list and realized everyone else was insane too. ;-)


T

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