Re: A perfect day for introducing myself

At 06:11 27/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Some people, innately polite and well-bred, introduce themselves
>immediately as they enter a new company.
>
>Apparently, I don't belong in that category :o, but I always find
>pleasure in teaching myself something new. So, with a two weeks
>delay... better than never ;)
>
So I give you an official welcome, even if I already did it before, while
you were not even already on the list :) .

>My first name is Vasiliy (I believe it should be pronounced vuh-SEE-lee
>in English). My surname is Chernov (approximately, cheer-NAWF; rolled
>'r', please ;) ). Like all Russians, I also have a patronymic (not
>exactly a middle name, by no means a part of the surname): Yevgenyevich
>(hard 'g', stress on -gen-). I don't expect to hear it often, though.
>
As a Frenchman with a little knowledge of other languages, I would
pronounce: [va'sili jEv'genevitS tSEr'nof], following your stress pattern,
and rolling the 'r' (as I always do when I try another language, except
English and German in fact :) ). What is the exact Russian pronunciation?

>
>I live in Moscow (Russia, not someplace), and it's really pretty cold
>here these days :). (But I suspect Artyom will say that minus 20
>centigrades is pretty *warm* for February ;) )
>
-20? That's pretty warm indeed! ;) Anyway, I prefer dry cold than wet
warmth (or cold), so I would accept without a problem.

>My education had something to do with biology (entomology, to be exact),
>but most of my jobs were about technical translation (English <->
>Russian) and/or multilingual editing. Owing to this, I've made friends
>with some profies in linguistics.
>
Entomology is a rather interesting domain. Those little bugs have so much
we don't know about :) .

>I am a linguistics addict.
>
Like all of us here I think! I'm personnally an engineering student (in the
French way, not engineer as in Britain or the US) but linguistics are
really my addiction :) .

>
>All this began when, still a schoolboy, I realized that English has a
>fixed word order and fails to distinguish verbal aspects. I found this
>so inconvenient that I immediately reformed it (by introducing
>declinable articles and profoundly reforming the tense system).
>
Interesting idea, it looks like putting a little of German in English :) .

>Conlanging is one of my favorite pastimes. What I like best is to model
>language evolution. I prefer to take some old natlang as the starting
>point. And I believe that conlanging is really helpful in understanding
>languages. It gives you deeper intuition, a kind of keen vision of how
>languages work and evolve. So in a way, it's something more serious
>than just pastime.
>
Very true, I have the same impression.

>
>Happy conlanging, and the best of the rest to everybody here -
>
        Thanks. I will send a post about nominal classes in Itakian today, so that
you're gonna have something to *argue* with me :) .

                                                        Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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