Re: CHAT: Happy Conlang day!

John Vertical, On 18/07/2008 23:53:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:27:36 -0700, David J. Peterson wrote:
>> Jörg:
>> <<
>> It was a different server back then, though, and apparently,
>> an informal network of people exchanging e-mails about
>> conlangs and conlanging existed at least for several weeks
>> before that.
>> That would seem to be the case.  In that message, Ronald writes:
>
> also:
>>>> By 16 July the list had grown to the 48 following persons(...)
>>>> I think that And and I are the only survivors from that era.
>
> Has there been a gradual de-lurking over the recent years then? I can
> recognize at least half a dozen names in the list, and I've only been here
> for three years now (and even that feels like less…)
I don't see as many as half a dozen of those names still appearing on Conlang.
Rick Harrison periodically leaves his lone furrow to post on Conlang. Amanda
Babcock has always been here, I think, though she must have been a babe in arms
17 years ago, seeing as she's still a stripling nowadays. Richard Kennaway
popped up this time a year ago, because he was doing an encyclopaedia article
on conlangs. Steve Rice contributes to Auxlang, I believe.

Some of those names are of course very august and justly renowned: Rick Morneau,
author of one of the foremost treatises on conlanging (his "Lexical
Semantics"); John Cowan, author of the Complete Lojban Language; and Nick
Nicholas, translator of the Klingon Hamlet.

--And.

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