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Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 15:01
 --- Paul Burgess skrzypszy:

> This map was soon abandoned, and the whole "Mercurian" > scenario was left far behind. But the language caught > fire and became an obsession for me. The name of the > language was eventually changed from "Mercurian" to > "Hermetic"-- I guess, jumping from the Roman god Mercury > to the Greek god Hermes.
Hehe. I was under the assumption that the language was called "Hermetic" because you worked on it only behind hermetically closed doors ;)
> There did develop a whole cluster of Hermetic > concultures-- sometimes partially overlapping, sometimes > not, and sometimes it's hard to tell-- but none of them > had anything to do with the planet Mercury.
Interesting. Did you develop dialects as well?
> As for being blown away by discovering other conlangers > out there-- yeah, it's been nearly three weeks now, and > I still haven't managed to wrap my mind around the > reality of it... :)
Ah, you'll get used to it eventually. After a year of being an active participant, you might even cease to understand how on Earth it is possible that there are people in the world who *don't* conlang :)) Just check out Daniel's http://www.conlanglinks.tk . I think it also contains links to many individual conlangs. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com