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

Steven Williams wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
Hello!

Yay!  I beat Christophe!  :-P

> I'm 17 years old and live in Florida.
I'm originally from Florida myself.  What part of Florida are you from?
I grew up in Pensacola.  I'm currently living in Kansas, which I greatly
prefer to Florida.  :-)

> I'm also studying Japanese. Beautiful language. Love the writing system.
Cool.  :-)  I know a bit of Japanese myself.  Wonderful sociolinguistic
phenomena and head-final structure.

> My conlanging at first was a relex of German,
My first conlang was a mixture of English and Latin influences, with
bits of SPanish when I started taking that in high school.

 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.
My lang's been alternately described by a friend of mine as "Backwards
Japanese" (some of the structure is similar to Japanese except reversed)
or "Hawaiian spoken by Finns on crack" (Finnish-like cases, simple
phonology), and I've called it "The result of an orgy involving Eskimos,
Polynesians, Bantus, and Finns, spoken by fanatically religious birds"
(The speakers are somewhat bird-like, altho increasingly, as I work out
their biology, batlike would be more accurate, and it has a
Polynesian-like phonology, Eskimo-like agglutination, Bantu-like
genders, and Finnish-like cases)

> My current language project is an isolating language with free word
> order
Interesting combination.  How does one determine the role of a noun in
the sentence?

> and a phonology reminiscent of Finnish
Lovely language.  :-)

> with a set of emphatic consonants.
Interesting.

> The language is as-of-yet unnamed. If you like, I'll post
> bits of it as I come up with it.
Of course!  :-)

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