Re: ADMIN: more archives available!

Heh heh heh... that STILL cuts me out!  I'd love to go back and see my first
exchanges with youse guys.  However this might be interesting.  Conlang in
1991.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Leigh" <thomas@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:46 PM
Subject: ADMIN: more archives available!


> John Cowan wrote:
> > You can now access all the archives from 1991 to 1997 at
> > http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/conlang .
>
> Wow, what a blast from the past! I believe I've found my first post ever
to
> Conlang, from Saturday, 22 July 1995:
>
> "Hello all / Saluton cxiuj!
>
> I'm new to the list, and I wanted to ask - do any of you create your own
> languages? I've been creating new languages (for my own personal
> pleasure) for about 12 years now, and I find it wonderful fun and
> great intellectual exercise. Similarly, I'm fascinated by languages
> created by other people. Would anyone like to share?
>
> Thomas Leigh"
>
> (And before any newbies comment on "do any of you create your own
> languages?" being a stupid question for the Conlang list, this was way
back
> before the Auxlang list was created, and most of the discussions on
Conlang
> at the time centered on languages like Esperanto, Lojban, etc.)
>
> And, looking further down the page, it seems that the first person who
> responded to me was the venerable Herman Miller, about his Mizarian
> languages.
>
> Even more amuzing: in the August 95 archive, there's an issue of Jeffrey
> Henning's "Journal of Planned Languages", which includes a "contact
> information for constructed languages" section in which I am listed as the
> creator/contact for Choba, Osë, Jafo, Tesawa, Rozhendi, and Thia. The
first
> five are all languages of mine (though I stopped working on the first four
> many moons ago), but I have no recollection of ever creating a language
> called "Thia" at all! I mean, not even name recognition like "oh yeah,
that
> was that thing I sketched out but never did anything with", but absolutely
> *no* memory of anything called "Thia" ever! I must have created something
at
> somepoint, though, because I send the information to Jeffrey for
publication
> in JPL... how bizarre! :-)
>
> Thanks for the trip down memory lane, John!
>
> Thomas
>

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