Re: CHAT: Conlang Cycles

Jeff Jones wrote:

> I while back, I started reading the earliest available list archives, at
> about the rate of one week of old messages per one week of new ones. The
> old ones are about 50 months back. I've notived something funny. Sometimes
> I don't know if I'm reading old or new messages. In the old messages, Duke
> and Daniel just joined the list, and they've just come back now. There are
> more parallels of that kind. Also, back then, they just finished a survey
> or two, and now, likewise.
Now that I think of it, Matt Pearson did a similar project to David's some years
ago. He made his class come up
with a language. Did you see that as you were browsing
through the old archives? Or perhaps that's a more irregular cycle, much like the
irregular "active flurry" cycle. :)

Daniel Andreasson