Re: Hi everyone! I'm able to post at last!

At 13:28 26/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 25 May 2000 18:44:01 -0700, Andre Militante <yatland@...>
>wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone!  Thanks to everyone for making me
>>feel welcomed in this list.  I've been tryin to post
>>here for the longest time.
>
>- Congrats, and welcome to the list!
>
Yes, welcome again!

>>Well, actually, I had a
>>hard time posting because I subscribed first through
>>egroups.
>
>- Same with me, a few months ago! It was quite frustrating, until
>Christophe pointed to listserv.brown.edu (thanks, Christophe!).
>
You're welcome :) . It's always a pleasure to help people join our small
and welcoming community.

>I think some message could be put on the list page *there* explaining
>that one should subscribe *here*. I wonder how many people haven't
>been enough patient.
>
Well, the description of the list(s) is not even complete (it's cut in the
middle of a sentence), so I don't think that they really cared when they
put a description. I wonder if David Durand has access to egroups to change
the description...

>>I grew up in
>>Quezon City, Philippines, so my native language is
>>Tagalog.
>
>- Ha! Not so long ago I was asked about which langs are difficult
>and which aren't, and I replied that I remember only two *really*
>difficult ones: Tagalog and Somali :) . However, with Tagalog,
>maybe I simply haven't seen a good description.
>
Try this page: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/
I didn't really look at it but it seems rather complete, with even lessons
to learn Tagalog.

>>As Kristian has already told you, I have a
>>hobby, and that is making my own conlang called Yat,
>>and Yatland is the name of my imaginary country where
>>Yat is spoken.
>
>- Hope we'll hear more about this!
>
Yes, especially about the language. I'm also interested in the culture of
the Yats. For that, there's the offspring list Conculture that you could
also subscribe to. I think you can subscribe by sending a blank e-mail to
conculture-subscribe@onelist.com (if it still works, each time I want to
reach www.onelist.com I end up at egroups...). If it doesn't, try at the
address conculture-subscribe@egroups.com, but I don't know what it's worth...

>>As for Japanese, it's very true that it only has one
>>rounded back vowel. In some Japanese dialects,
>>however, the rounded o isn't rounded, so there are
>>actually parts in Japan where they don't have a
>>single rounded back vowel.
>
>- A similar thing happened to Proto-Slav. I don't think Proto-Slavs
>were too much like Japanese in any important respect. So maybe it's
>enough to say simply that such things do happen to languages ;)
>
I thought it was the contrary that happened to Proto-Slav, that it was
unrounded vowels which became rounded. But I can well be wrong, I have
hardly any knowledge of Slavic languages.

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

"Reality is just another point of view."

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