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

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!

>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!).

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.

>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.

>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!

>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 ;)

>Nice to meet all of you! :-)
And I'm glad to hear from you, too!

>Andre
Vasiliy Chernov
(AKA Basilius)