Re: Hello, everybody
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Thursday, February 21, 2002, 12:38 |
En réponse à Antonio WARD <antonio_ward@...>:
> My name is Antonio, I am Venezuelan and I live in Paris, France.
Welcome to the list! Venezuelan living in Paris? Isn't that hard? :)) I know at
least one person on this list who lives in Paris. Or did you move, Mathias?
Well, I'm French, but I left Paris nearly a year ago to settle in The
Hague :)) .
I
> will
> start soon my adventure of creating a new language. I hope I will have
> something soon.
Take your time, but don't forget to share with us what you have :)) .
I am not a linguist at all, but languages are my
> passion. My
> mother tongue is spanish, but I also speak french an english. I also
> have
> some basics of german and italian as well as some knowledge of Latin,
> but
> fortunately, here in Paris you can find a lot of info on almost any
> language.
It's one of the rare things I miss. Here it's quite difficult :((( . I wish
there was something like the FNAC around here... Each time I come to Paris, I
go back with a few books :)) .
I have purchased some books linguistics on Amazon. I hope
> you
> will help me out with this quest!
Of course!
... I am very excited about it. As you
> can
> imagine, although I love languages since a long time ago, this interest
> in
> creating a language arose after havin' seen THE LORD OF THE RINGS (I
> am
> reading the book for the first time now).
>
Well, I knew this movie would serve for something :)) . I think it's great for
the recognition of conlanging as an artform. Now, let's not miss the boat and
let's use the publicity created around it :)) .
> I think you are a great community!
>
Thanks! You're welcome to be part of it :) .
> cheers!
> Antonio (writing with just one hand now)
>
What happened? Did you break an arm?
Christophe.
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