Re: CHAT: poofs and yanks

At 06:09 PM 3/27/2001 -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
>jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> > Actually, the gender ratio on this list isn't terribly imbalanced, or at
> > least it doesn't seem so to me.
>
>Well, the only females I can think of on the list are Yoon Ha, Sally
>[who's not on the list at present], Irina, Nicole [is she still on the
>list? I haven't seen anything from her lately], Karen [who seems to have
>posted once in February, and not since], Laurie, Sylvia, Tristan (I
>think that's a female name) ... and that seems to be it, eight total,
>all the rest appear to be men.
>
>My apologies to any women I might've forgotten, I just looked thru the
>names on all the posts in my Conlang folder, which goes back to late
>January.
Well, I'm female too, but I don't think anyone on this list could be
expected to tell from my name, :-) and I'm not a proper conlanger
unfortunately.  I'm Singaporean, doing a joint BA and MA in English at
Yale.  My English interests are Old and Middle English, history of English,
dialects of English; apart from that I'm quite interested in descriptive
linguistics, which is how I bumped into the conlang list in the first place
(the archives showed up when I did a web search for tones in Hokkien
Chinese).  Then I joined because a class in Indo-European linguistics
assigned conlanging as a final project, and I've stayed because you're all
such nice people. :p

By the way, I too am straight, right-handed and non-bearded. :D

E-Ching

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