Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

On Sunday, November 25, 2001, at 03:35 , Hiroshi Kato wrote:

> This is my first post to the list, so please let me introduce myself
> first.
>
Konnichiwa!  (Here's hoping it's the right time of day...)

> My name is Hiroshi Kato and I live in the suburb of Tokyo, Japan.
> My native language is Japanese, but I can also understand English just a
> little bit,
> since I had worked in California for three years, and I had a chance to
> learn English there.
>
:-)  It sounds like you can understand English quite well, actually!
Unfortunately my Japanese is extremely limited, but there are others on
this list who are quite conversant with it.

> I started my conlang 'project' when I was 14 years old, and have been
> working on it for almost 20 years.
> I call this language ' Grie Ka' and it literally means ' the language
> whose
> name is Ka,'
> so actually you can just call it ' Ka' or ' Ka language' or whatever you
> like.
>
> I'm thinking of posting its grammer little by little (of course if and
> only
> if you guys are interested in it!)
> so that you can judge how much the influence of my native language has
> sneaked in, consciously or unconsciously.
We're most certainly interested.  Go ahead and post whenever the mood
strikes you!

BTW, is native language influence something you're seeking to avoid?  (God
knows, my conlangs are peppered with obscure and mangled borrowings from
Korean or Latin or Turkish or whatever strikes my fancy.)

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

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