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Re: Translation: Trolls and their Management

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Monday, January 19, 2004, 14:02
Staving Adrian:
>Peter Bleackley wrote: > > > As an ex-afper , I'll bite. > >I'd been pretty certain you must be the same Peter Bleackley (it's not >a common name), but while I remember you as actively interested in >astronomy and theology, I don't recall you ever posting about >linguistics. Do you still lurk on afp now and then?
Yes, I am that Pete Bleackley (I resurrected my old nickname Quantum to establish the identification beyond doubt.) Every now and then I check Google Groups to see what's going on. Unfortunately, about two years into my Ph.D. I found that increasing real-life commitments were not leaving me the time to keep up with afp, so I decided to "softly and suddenly vanish away". I felt it best not to draw attention to my departure lest it trigger meta-threads. I've always been interested in languages, and had done some conlanging on-and-off since I was about twelve. However, it's only recently that I've begun to seriously pursue it as a hobby. On afp my interest in languages was confined mainly to Latin and Latatian (ficcinus toastatus vultisne?)
>Afp played a significant part in my getting here. I did a tiny bit of >conlanging when I was young; the topic came up on afp once; I learned >a few things from that but not about Conlang specifically; later I >went to a meet in the Netherlands in February 2000 and stayed with >Irina and Boudewijn, also ex-afpers; Irina told me where to find the >Conlang list and the rest is history. >
There was a considerable time lapse between my departure from afp and my joining conlang. In my case, what happened was that I had an Idea for a fantasy novel (I'm still working on it). I decided that I wanted to have a convincing language for magical spells in it. While searching the web for ideas, I discovered the existence of a conlanging community and decided to become part of it. Pete "Quantum" Bleackley