Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > I thought that was Victor Hugo, for _Les Misérables_.  Or did I misremember?
> >
> > Yoon Ha Lee
> > new to the list and still lurking
>
> Yoon! Welcome to the list.  I don't think we've ever met, but we went to
> the same middleschool together -- you'll probably recognize my address
> from Alex's [our mutual friend's] emails.  What brought you to the list?
> I'm sure you'll find us a most congenial group.  Everyone's very friendly,
> far more so than most groups.
Ohmygawsh, the name looked familiar, but I was *sure* it couldn't be the
Tom Wier I vaguely remembered from middle school--I think Alex mentioned
you a few times.  Hello, belatedly.  :-)

I like linguistics and have been reading layman texts where I can grab
(and understand them), and somewhat regret that I'm a math major, though
math is neat.  :-/  I recently discovered conlangs as a *wonderful*
linguistics resource, not to mention I'm a sf/f writer (3 stories sold, 2
published) who likes messing around with worldbuilding.  I'm learning all
sorts of things by just lurking...wanted to listen in and figure out the
etiquette of things before I posted.  But I just had to respond to the
"?" topic.  :-p

Cheers, and good to hear from you.  Are you in Texas right now?  I ended
up at Cornell U., Nowhere--er, Ithaca, NY.  :-p  Long story.

YHL