Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Thursday, March 13, 2003, 0:41 |
En réponse à Paul Burgess <paul@...>:
>
> 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.
>
Well, that's a real surprise! Like Jan (I think it was Jan who commented on
that first), I thought you had called the language "Hermetic" because it was a
secret and personal language, a "hermetic" tongue. But this reason is quite
unexpected :)) .
>
> 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... :)
>
Hehe, we do exist. You'll realise that at the first conlang meeting you'll
participate. It's always quite an experience to get face to face to
conlangers :)) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
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