Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:35:51 +0900, Hiroshi Kato <hkato@...>
wrote:

>Hi, folks!
Hello!

>This is my first post to the list, so please let me introduce myself first.
>
>My name is Hiroshi Kato and I live in the suburb of Tokyo, Japan.
Greetings from Moscow, Russia!

>My native language is Japanese,
... so you're going to be popular on this list :)

Japanese is a regular subject of discussion here, and seems to have
inspired many (the script, restrictions on syllable structure, word
order, conjugated adjectives, etc. etc. etc.).

>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.
As a non-English-speaker myself, virtually never exposed to this language
in real life, I'd say this list will be very useful. English speakers here
can give really qualified answers on a whole range of subjects
(usage, dialects, language history, etc.).
>
>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!)
Yes, we are. I am. :)

>so that you can judge how much the influence of my native language has
>sneaked in, consciously or unconsciously.
Interesting. I tried to figure out if I avoided such influence... I'm not
sure. It seems that I have a predilection for "free" word order and verbal
aspects, but OTOH, for example, I tend to regularize the inventory of
permitted consonant clusters, which is indeed very un-Russian ;)

Some of my projects are deliberately imitative. For example, Kench and
Oidingese have utterly English-like phonologies (and sound histories).

And some have deliverately obscured, or simply bizarre, grammars.

And all are intended to look like natural languages... And none is any
close to being finished... :(

>Anyway, I look forward to joining interesting discussions on the list.
It seems you're already in :)


Basilius
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