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

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