>
> Dan,
>
> Thanks for asking. Here's my individual answer.
>
> I haven't got a proper constructed language, nor do I have
> the time to devote to the marvelous process of making one.
> There is barely time in my schedule to skim the subject
> lines of the many fascinating contributions on this list, and
> to read a few of the submissions that catch my fancy.
>
> Making language is what I do with the tongue my mother
> gave me; with the time I have left over from work in patent
> preparation, schooling in math and science, and time with
> my wife, I write fiction. I've generated placenames, person
> names, tribal names, future histories, slang terms, fictional
> machine and drug names, and some bits here and there of
> languages I only see dimly from afar in the imaginary
> worlds I write about.
>
> This mailing list shows me a linguistic panoply of great
> depth and detail, and some of its contributions trigger ideas
> that I might someday be able to use in my writing. If I had
> something concrete to offer on the list, and adequate time
> to offer it properly, I could kick in now and then. The way
> things are now, it's not likely.
>
> Special credit and praise to my friend, the erudite, gutsy and
> hard-working Sally Caves, for opening this door to me a
> while back. She's nudged me a few times to come forward;
> this is a half step, all I can do right now. I love to lurk here,
> and would like to continue.
>
> Off to calculus homework.
>
> Best wishes and encouragement to all of you,
>
> Dana W. Paxson
>
> yl-ruil wrote:
>
> > To all our Lurkers:I'm not trying to be offensive; I honestly don't
> > understand. Why lurk? Don't you feel like you want to join in with all
> > the arguments (whoops! civilised debates). That's the best bit for me-
> > my first day on the list I sparked off an argument (the s-->h debate,
> > which I thought should go s->z->h) and the most recent such was my
> > argument with Vasily about fracturing in OE (that was fun! thanks
> > Basileus!). What do you actually do, just read all the
> > postings? Dan ----
> > Bengesko niamso.
> > Cursed German.
> > ----
> > Dan Morrison (
http://www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/index.html)
>
> --
>
> Dana W. Paxson
> dwpaxson@acm.org
> Reality boggles everything. That's why we've got denial.