Re: Naive fluent speaker of one's conlang?

On 6/17/08, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Jim Henry wrote:
>> >> I have been searching through my mail archives without success for an
>> >> anecdote someone told about a conlanger not active on this list (he
>> >> may be on ZBB); my best recollection is that he was described as a
>> >> naive fluent speaker of his conlang, i.e. he speaks it fluently but
>> >> can't explain how it works. I am not sure it was not Tony Harris
>>.....
> I dimly recall Sally Caves mentioning/introducing such a person, who
> subsequently joined the list for a while. This would have been maybe 6-7
> years ago. Perhaps if you search for Sally's msgs from some years back. I
> seem to recall he was a Prot. minister in the Iowa/Minnesota area. But I
> could be mixed up................
That would be Paul Burgess.  It was, in fact, rereading
the part in _Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language_
where she discusses Mr Burgess and his language
that reminded me of this story about (I think) someone
else who is fluent in their conlang; I'm reasonably
sure that it is someone else and that the person was mentioned
on this list far more recently than Mr. Burgess' brief period of
participation here, but I can't seem to find the message with any
combination of keywords I've tried.

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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm

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