>From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Newbie Delurking (or decloaking as the case may be)
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:33:49 -0800
>
>On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 01:15 , David William McKay wrote:
>
>>Well, I've received three whole messages from this group already
>>and discovered how very VERY technical this group is. I'll
>>probably shut up until I can find the time to start constructing
>>my own language.
>>
>Hello! If you become interested in a topic, go ahead and ask. Chances
>are, if someone has the time you'll be answered. :-) And yes, while a
>lot of conversations of late become technical, less technical topics do
>occur (and can be started). I confess my own technical knowledge of
>linguistics is rather weak--just dive in when you're curious, and you'll
>start picking things up.
>
>>In the meantime, has anybody attempted a reconstruction of HP
>>Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos language(s)? Even as I ask this I
>>suspect the phonemes are too simplistic for a proper language.
>>Just a thought.
>
>Hey, that's an interesting idea. I haven't done so, but I'd also be
>interested in any reconstruction others have attempted, assuming they aren'
>t stark raving mad or gobbled up by Colours out of Space or somesuch. ;-)
>
>(Yes, I do like Lovecraft, insofar as the word "like" can be applied to
>his works.)
>
>Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
>
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>
>Three things are certain:
>Death, taxes, and lost data.
>Guess which has occurred.
>
>David Dixon, haiku error message