Re: OT: 10th anniversary of the founding of Conlang

The Gray Wizard wrote:

> > From: dirk elzinga
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> >
> > > : A number of members of the ur-list (Rick Morneau, Rick Harrison -- I
> > > : think they were on the ur-list, but you have the history
> > straighter than
> > > : me) are still kicking around and conlanging but couldn't handle the
> > > : high traffic of conlang (or, I speculate, the huge shift in topic bias
> > > : to subscribers' artlangs that occurred from 1993 or so).
> > >
> > > What was the bias before that?
> >
> > That was about when I joined; it was pretty aux/loglangy at the
> > time, with a dash of Klingon from Mark Shoulson.
> >
> > Since my bias is obviously artlangy, I suppose that means I was
> > partly responsible for the shift ...
>
> I believe I joined the list about this time as well, so I suppose I must
> assume part of the responsibility for the shift also.
I joined in '93, and promptly began flooding the list with postings on Tokana (a
brand new language in those days), so I'm also responsible for the shift to
artlangs.  (I must have joined around the same time as Dirk Elzinga, and a
little after Herman Miller.  I preceded David Bell, though, because I still
remember his first posting.)

Matt.

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