Naive fluent speaker of one's conlang?

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 (Alurhsa) or Paul Burgess (mna Vanantha), but I think it
was someone else.
Does anyone know who the original poster of the message I can't find
was talking about?

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm
(new review of Sir Thomas Urquhart's _The Jewel_ posted recently)

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