Re: I'M BACK!!! :)

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> Hi everyone!
Hi yourself! I thought I'd do my bit to reach the mail/day limit by writing
yet another Wellcome Back! message.

> After three weeks of well-deserved holidays, among which two weeks spent in
> the beautiful, if largely overheated ;))) , Loiret (we had 42 degrees of
> averge for the two weeks, and 55 degrees in the sun - and I'm talking
> Celsius here :)) -), and one week seeing my family in Normandy, and a few
> days to recover from the holidays (and I thought that holidays were meant
> for rest ;))) ), I'm officially back on Internet, and thus on the different
> mailing lists I'm participating in (chiefly Conlang of course :)) ).
55 Centigrade? I _did_ hear people were dying down there ...

And I've been wishing for the damn outdoors temperature to drop below 20
here ... which it did a couple of days ago, but not before a terrible spell of
heavy rain and 25 centigrade. Sweating and getting rained on at the same time
is a bit over the top, if you ask me. Now, imagine 55 centigrade and heavy
rain ...

> Conlangly speaking, I must confess I did next to nothing during those
> holidays :)) . I've just begun a new description of Maggel. The language
> itself is not changing, I just reread my notes and found so many
> contradictions and loopholes that I had to begin them again. It allowed me
> to update the Maggel script, by adding a lot of evil ligatures I hadn't
> thought about before (especially plenty of ambiguous ones :)) ). Apart from
> that, people who read my METAFONTtutorial and/or participate in the
> LaTeX-for-Conlangers mailing list will be happy to know that I enjoyed my
> stay in France to buy the "METAFONT - Guide pratique", the only other book
> besides the METAFONTbook devoted to METAFONT, and which happens to be a
> French book. Another source for writing the METAFONTtutorial should result
> in a better tutorial (I'm busy correcting it by the way :)) ).
>
> So, how's life been on Conlang since I left? (Jan van Steenbergen told me
> that it has been quiet. What? Does that mean that you guys really need me
> to break our daily 100-message limit? ;))))))) )
That's the sad truth!

Knowing you, I suspect you're going to read thru all back-mail, but I think I
for safety's sake ought mention that I've put up a piece on my Elvish
language - now called "Meghean" (that's [me'Zan]) - on my website, at
andjo.free.fr/conlang/meghean.html . There's still no link to it from the main
page, for the very profound reason that between an exam and some other stuff
I've not found any much time to work on it the last week or so.

                                                        Andreas

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