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

Quoting christopher carter <cscfon@...>:

> Hey all-
>
> 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. [...] 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!"
Well, welcome to the list! I believe you will find that the
people here are generally a helpful and friendly lot who're
interested in your projects just as much as they are in theirs.

> 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?
This is a problem, certainly.  The list has varied greatly
since its inception over 10 years ago both in content and
in quantity. We've been on a crest for a couple weeks now,
but I believe that, at least for the holidays, it'll level
off to a more reasonable level.

>> And if there is ANY consistency to the versions of IPA
> symbols used around here, I would be greatly appreciative.
Don Blaheta, a former member of the list, set up a very
useful site with the four main ASCII-IPA transcription
systems used on the net:

<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html>

I myself tend to use a modified version of that credited to
Miguel Carrasquer.

> Chris
> (I might as well mention that my main personal conlang is Dafhkin, which
> I started when I was 15.
Are we to take this to mean that you're at least 25? :)

I think you'll find that many of us here have been working on
our languages for decades like this.

> It is fairly simple for linguistics and is a
> strange blend of early Romance and Germanic languages with some
> grammatical borrowings.)
What aspects of it are more Romance, and what more German?

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