Re: Lurkers
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 21, 2000, 11:32 |
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>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?
I've actually wondered this from time to time myself. Is not the purpose
of a mailing list to join in the conversations? Hmm, perhaps they're just
shy? Anyway, don't worry, as you probably know the regular posters are a
nice bunch of people. It would be great to see all of you lurker's
conlangs too.
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