Re: Hi! Introduction and OSV

Manáyang eváris, Sharon!

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 00:40:06 -0800, Sharon <nutbuddy@...> wrote:

>Hi everyone! I've been a lurker of this mailing list on and off for
>the past two years or so, and I guess I've found a reason now to
>delurk (although there might not be a very noticeable difference; I'm
>usually several days behind posts and you all usually say everything
>worth saying anyway ;).
Heh. Welcome nevertheless! For me, too, there are waiting ~80 unread mails
actually that are waiting since last spring actually. So what? ;)

>In any case, my name's Sharon Chu, and I'm a 16 year-old living in
>Southern California.
Ray, conlangers are not a dying out species!

>I'd like to say that I was always interested in languages, but I'm
>afraid that this is only partly true. While I was probably a little
>bit more, um, "linguistically aware" than an average American child,
>it wasn't until two years ago that I finally started to become
>fascinated by languages. A friend and I started work on a conlang,
>although the interest was short-lived and it was basically a clone of
>Latin (my friend's language of choice).
Cool. Being more aware of linguistics that the average can drive other
people quite crazy, doesn't it?

>Later on, while re-reading my copy of the Silmarillion, I developed a
>sudden interest in Sindarin--not Quenya, which, to tell the truth, I
>have never been that interested in--and began feverishly taking notes
>from the Ardalambion. Sooner or later my interest in Sindarin
>dwindled, and I tried to construct my own conlang--which is now
>discarded, since it resembled a Spanish relex too much at first and
>later on because I kept changing the verb conjugations to the point
>where I got extremely confused and abandoned it out of frustration.
Heh, actually I also became interested into conlanging by Tolkien's works.
It's so impressive, and I have always been interested in words. So I
stumbled over the Ardalambion, too, where I found a link to Mark
Rosenfelder's "Language Construction Kit". I began working on my first
language, a relex (word?) of German with some additions in March or April
2003. I stopped working on it already in June of that year. It's so damn
boring. Daléian was more influenced by French, which is my L3 of choice. My
current project, Ayeri, is heavily influenced by Austronesian trigger langs,
at least the nominal morphology (case system and such).

>I'm really, really excited about this yet unnamed language, for it's
>getting more and more complex as I sit through more Chemistry classes
>and so far it's *not a relex*!! (--although it's one of my greatest
>fears that it might eventually degenerate to that).
Heh, Chemistry courses, I hate them. Luckily, I could deselect (word?)
Chemistry for this and next (the final) year. I'm also always in fear that
my work might be too much biased by my native language -- German.

Have fun,
Carsten

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