Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

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From: "# 1" <salut_vous_autre@...>


> I've been told that the usage was to present oneself to the others
And it's also the custom for people on the list to welcome the newcomer.
I'm so very glad that Mark has done that!   And beat me to it! :)  I
couldn't do it publically yesterday, as I was at quota.  So:

Bienvenue, Maxime, or as they say in Teonaht, traltan, sed tso narlty.
"Greetings, we welcome/accept you."  Although we have been chatting with you
for several weeks, an indication of acceptance. :)

> My name is Maxime Lévesque,
I'm glad to get a name.  I, too, wondered why you were using the sobriquet
"#1."

> I'm 16 years old and I live in Québec, Canada...
I kinda figured that!  The reference to how cold it gets there was a
giveaway, along with a few other things! :)

> I prefer to say only Québec because I have a secessionist spirit and want
> separation.. but that's not the goal of that post, so I say also Canada
> because probably that without Canada a lot would not be able to know where
> it is.
I agree with Mark.  I think Québec is as well-known as Montreal or Toronto
or Amsterdam or...

> I speak Frensh, English that I learn at school since I'm 12, and a little
> of
> spanish that I've learn during 3 years.
Do you think that you will major in linguistics at University?

> I've started my first conlang a few weeks ago and discovered that mailing
> list when I was searching for grammatical information about something I
> don't remember.
I would be very curious to know, Maxime, what inspired you to start
inventing a language if you discovered this list accidentally.  I've found
that quite a number of people come to conlanging independently of the list.
And many of them before they've even heard of Tolkien.  So what was your
inspiration?

> So I only have one conlang project in activity wich don't already have a
> name. It uses affixes for every grammatical possibilities. Each words
> concerning another are pasted to it: adjectives, articles case markers,
> conjugaison, verb modificators(equivalent to the auxilaries like can, may,
> need to, want to). It makes that big sentences can be in a few words. I
> like
> it because the distinction root-affixes is clear because an affix always
> beggin (or ends but it's rare) with an approximant ([j], [w], [H], [r\])
> or
> [h], so they are never confused. The plural is made with nasalization, the
> genitive is like in mongolian, there's no verb "to be" or "to have"-> it's
> all with suffixes.
>
> But I have ideas concerning an other conlang with infixal grammatical
> modifications making it more consize than the other.
Good!  We look forward to hearing about these.

> So now you know me it will be better to talk.
Mais bien sûr!

Sally

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