What's a MUD?
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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of John Leland
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 12:21 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Caraboo
>
>
> In a message dated 8/5/04 8:25:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> cph9fa@ADMIRAL.UMSL.EDU writes:
>
> << Have
> any of you ever walked up to someone (preferably a complete
> stranger!) and
> started speaking your conlang to them? I mean seriously speak
> it, as if it
> were your L1, and you didn't understand English? >>
> I never tried this in person, but I did do it in a MUD once. To my
> disappointment,
> the person to whom I was "speaking" obviously recognized it
> immediately as a
> conlang. Perhaps people in fantasy MUDs expect such things.
> John Leland