Re: First Message

On Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 07:36 , John Laury wrote:

> Hello.  This is my first message to the list--I just
> signed on, so right now I don't know too much about the
> topics of conversation.  I just heard about this group
> from one of your members (the inventor of Teonaht) and
> figured I should check it out.  I have to admit I
> haven't invented any languages to date (besides an
> attempt at an alphabet/phonetic system in high school,
> which I gave up when I took my first college
> linguistics class and discovered that the systematic
> phonetic similarities that I "discovered" were only
> *part* of the first phonetics lesson), but I have
>
Hello!  And hey, you actually went on to take college linguistics.  Not
everyone does.  ^_^  (I actually only audited half a phonology/phonetics
class.  <guilt, guilt>)

> plenty of ideas, and I am thrilled that if I were to
> create a language in the future, I might have an
> audience that could appreciate it.
:-)  We look forward to hearing more from you!

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

Diplomacy: the art of letting someone else have your way.