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

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Friday, December 14, 2001, 14:41
On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 03:30 , christopher carter wrote:

> 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!" >
<laugh> Yeah, that sounds like this place. <embarrassed look> I have to confess I deleted this message initially because I looked at the subject header and thought, Oh no, another *really* weird porn spam email. I'm glad I was mistaken...<slinking away>
> 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? >
JOOC, what is your career? :-) As to the email--selectivity. I delete over half of the messages on this list without reading 'em. It saddens me to do so but realistically there' s only so much my brain can take in a day.
> 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.)
Do you have any greetings/farewells in Dafhkin you'd like to contribute to the conlang greetings page? :-) (I feel like a solicitor, but hey...) It's at http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/greetings.phtml if you're curious. Personally, I'd love to see more entries, even though there's a lot there already! Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofvelis.com] http://pegasus.cityofveils.com This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.--Wolfgang Pauli