Re: fresh meat <-------

Kristofer Kartar sekalge:
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Hey all-
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Hay? I prefer grass and oats myself, but I'll take hay if neither is
available.

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I just joined this mailing list and I cannot believe the community I
found.
The first day after I joined my inbox was flooded with 71 emails (posts)
and
I was enthralled.  Not necessarily by all the topics.  (No offense, but a
non-Tolkien-fan can only read about elvish but so much.)  I haven't felt
this much like I all of a sudden fit in since I came out.  [stands]  "My
name is Chris.  I am a conlanger."  [the crowd] "HI CHRIS!"
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I'm afraid that Tolkien is something of a role model for a fistful of us
(a guess). He was the most famous conlanger. (Zamenhof was an auxlanger,
and he wasn't very good at making language.)

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I just wanted to say that I am in love with this new thing i discovered.
And some of you people crack me up.  (e.g. Maarten)

I have been a conlanger for at least 10 years and linguistics is my big
love, next to my career anyway.  Now, how do i keep from spending three
hours every night reading all these emails?
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I don't so much care about linguistics, but I love philology. (That's
according to my definitions, which might not be true, but we're here
because we thought we want to make our own language, so if my definitions
are wrong, they'll be right in my language.) I don't like the psychology
and sociology that I think goes along with linguistics.
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And if there is ANY consistency to the versions of IPA symbols used
around
here, I would be greatly appreciative.


Chris
(I might as well mention that my main personal conlang is Dafhkin, which
I
started when I was 15.  It is fairly simple for linguistics and is a
strange
blend of early Romance and Germanic languages with some grammatical
borrowings.)
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My main language, Sturnan, is less than five months old, but I started it
at the same age.

Christopher Wrighgt, the he-too-faslt-typeing-one

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