Re: My girlfriend is a conlanger!

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:

> I have a girlfriend too (in fact I should say: fiancée, since we are getting
> married next July),
Well, congratulations in advance!

> but I absolutely can't imagine her conlanging. She cannot
> even understand what drives me into it. No, I would be really really really
> surprised if she would suddenly turn out to have been conlanging too... I'd
> rather expect the Eiffel Tower to dance a tango!
This was the case with my previous girlfriend. I met her when we both took
Lingustics 101 as well, but I cannot for the life of me imagine her conlang.
I guess she lacked that introspect imagination, which is a very endearing
quality of Jessica (i.e. my present girlfriend.)

Jessica's told me that she concultures as well. I'll meet her tonight, and I'll give you
an update tomorrow on what happens. :)

> Hopefully she (what's her name, by the way?) will join us soon, and we will
> learn more about Coní.
I've learned that Coní should really be Còní, where a grave accent
marks a long vowel and an acute accent marks a short vowel. Seems
a bit redundant to me. There are also circumflex accents, but I'm not
sure what they do. And all vowels can be prepalatalized, which is marked
by diaraesis. Definitely Russian influence there. :)

I'll try to make her join this list. Perhaps I can even get her to take
Sally's survey?

> I guess this makes you part of the third conlanging couple here, after
> Irina/Boudewijn and Eamon/Sabrina? Of have I missed something?
David Peterson and his ex-girlfriend Meg? Out of which came Megdevi,
if I'm not mistaken. He's not on the list for the moment, though. Is he?
And they're not a couple. And I'm not sure if she actually was a conlanger.
But still!

I wonder if there will ever be a Jesdeni. :)

Daniel Andreasson

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