Re: De-lurking

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Michael Potter wrote:

> Hello, everybody! Yes, I finally did it, I posted to this list. Since I am
> unknown on this list, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Michael
> Potter, and I'm 16 years old (and soon to be homeschooled because of a very
> painful injury). I've been reading this list for about 4 months now, and I've
> read the Language Construction Kit and other essays on language construction.
> Right now I'm not working on any project, but I am looking for any books on
> the subject.
Hope you recover soon.  I'm 21, alas; and my 18-year-old sister who's
going off to college this fall thinks I'm old.  To which I generally
reply: "Someday you, too, will be old."  =^)

> On a different note: I do know where to find the Ranto on Esperanto that Yoon
> Ha Lee keeps talking about.  The author's name is Justin Rye and it's located
> at
> <http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto.html>
Thank you!  I found that through some random link-browsing and lost the
path.  :-/  Happens on the internet far, far too often.

Hope all's well!

Books I liked (though more introductory in nature, I guess) were
Crystal's _Cambridge _Encyclopedia of Language_, Crowley's _Introduction
to Historical Linguistics_, and Walter Meyer's _Aliens and Linguists_ (a
somewhat outdated but interesting survey of how sf has mis/used
linguistics; it's out of prints but I found a used copy via
http://www.abebooks.com).  I also read Ronald Macaulay's _The Social
Art_, which is a monolingual English speaker's introduction to
sociolinguistics, I think; I didn't like the monolingual aspect, but it
might work for other people.

I'm sure everyone else has much, much better recs.  :-p

YHL