Re: 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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