Re: absolve me; this is my introduction

 --- A. Ingram skrzypszy:

> Forgive me, fellow conlangers, I have been rude.  I haven't taken the time
> to properly introduce myself.
Well, if you consider that a mistake, then it has been corrected soon enough ;)
Welcome to the List!

> Well, my name is Andrey and I'm currently working on a conlang.
Where are you from, if I may ask? Andrey sounds like a Russian name, but as I
understood from your other message, Russian is not your first language.

> I became interested in constructed languages after
> learning of them on the net.  After that, I went to a nearby university
> library and started educating myself in linguistics.  My research has
> provided me with quite a bit of information.
Wow, that's the spirit!

> As of right now, I'm taking things slow and formulating the sounds for my
> conlang.  I want to create a language that sounds beautiful and is
> grammatically inventive, so I have much work to do.  Perhaps I will post
> some information on my conlang.
Please do so!

> My first conlang, which is rather
> fragmented, was called crunk.  It was made to give an idea of what sounds
> an alien race would produce.
Well, cough it up, then. Funny name, BTW.

> As of yet, I am undecided as to whether or not I should create vocabulary
> manually or generate it on the computer.  The former would ensure that my
> language would be more personalised, so i'm leaning toward that.
Personally, I agree. Who is the conlanger, after all? The computer or you?
Creating a conlang is a nice and creative way to spend your time (many people
consider it an art), and it would be a pity if the computer had to do the work
for you.
But a lot of people here think differently. Anyway, word generated by a
computer can always give you some ideas. In practice, I think the difference is
not that big, though; as I understood from those who used word generators, they
often throw away 99 % of the generated words anyway (and could have made up the
rest without the computer, too).

> I'm rather new at the art of constructed languages and I'm eager to learn
> new things.  I hope this list will be a good place to share and learn
> information about constructed languages.
Well, you definitely got to the right place, then. Welcome again!

In the other message, you wrote:

> Please include some resources for germanic languages as well.
http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html

(and for a word list of Old Norse:)
http://hem.passagen.se/peter9/gram/index.html

Jan



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