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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, December 14, 2001, 12:14
En réponse à 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. 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!" >
Welcome from a Christophe! (hey, I can't help but being French :)) )
> > 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? >
Easy answer: you can't!!! :)))
> And if there is ANY consistency to the versions of IPA symbols used > around > here, I would be greatly appreciative. >
Well, most of us here use a version of X-SAMPA (I can't find the URL for it right away) or CPA, a new ASCII IPA scheme designed by one of us (and there's also my scheme which I didn't have time to post about yet). But nearly all of us understand X-SAMPA, as long as the symbols used don't refer to too exotic sounds.
> > 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.) >
I'm curious to know more about it. Please share! And welcome again! Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>