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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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