Re: Egotistical announcement of my presence on this list. Greet me.

En réponse à Steven Williams :

>Hi everybody!
Welcome to the list! :)

>
>I'm 17 years old and live in Florida. American English is my L1, standard
>German my L2 and I'm taking French classes at school. I'm also studying
>Japanese. Beautiful language.
Agreed ;)) .

>  Love the writing system. My hobbies include the great trio of reading,
> writing and drawing, and the strange stand-alone of distance running.
At one time I had exactly the same set of hobbies ;))) . But I've never
been good at drawing so I abandoned that ;))) .

>
>My conlanging at first was a relex of German, right down to having four
>cases and identical verb conjugations. After that, I decided to make the
>weirdest languages possible, taking influences from Finnish, Japanese,
>German, English, French, Arabic, Sylvia Sotomayor's Kélen and numerous
>other sources.
Interesting mix ;) .

>
>My current language project is an isolating language with free word order
>and a phonology reminiscent of Finnish with a set of emphatic consonants.
Emphatic consonants? Like the Arabic ones? Interestingly, my Maggel also
has emphatic consonants, but I call them "tensed", because the emphasis on
them is realised as strong muscle tension in the whole mouth when
pronouncing them. Not quite like the Arabic emphatics, but not too far
either ;)) .

>  The language is as-of-yet unnamed. If you like, I'll post bits of it as
> I come up with it.
I'm quite interested in what you can make with such a wide base of
languages :)) .

Welcome again! :)

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.