Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections

t'Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:31:03 +0000
Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> bsaidsiem:

> I must say, I
> am happy with this kind of information. After all, isn't it strange
> that you correspond with people almost every day without even knowing
> what they look like? Christophe, Rob, and Maarten are the only
> conlangers I have ever seen alive(and whom I hope to see alive
> tomorrow :) ), but for the rest, I don't have a clue what you folks
> look like.
I have two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet, eight fingers,* two
thumbs and ten toes. I also have a nose, two lips, numerous teeth, nails
on each of my fingers, thumbs and toes, and ears. Much of my body is
covered by skin. Other body parts exist. Does this help any?

*When she was born, my mother had ten fingers and two thumbs, but they
were removed. My older sister and younger brother also had an extra
finger each, but they weren't connected properly (with skin rather than
skin, bone, tendons etc.), and if I remember my younger brother's
properly, it didn't really look like it had bone in it, and didn't have
proper skin (it was purple and wet, sort of like skin that shouldn't be
exposed to the air, but this is calling on memories from when I was
four...). Mum's were, apparently, removed surgically; Emilly (two Ls)
and Lachlan's were removed with scissors.

> Why don't we open a site with photos of ourselves?
You can find a photo from the start of last year of me at
<http://zsau.firespeaker.org/oldstuff/tristan.jpg>. As such, I recommend
you steer clear of that page.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
                      - fortune.