Re: CHAT: Conlang Cycles

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:39:25 +0100, Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work
<daniel.andreasson@...> wrote:

>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
I don't think I've seen it yet, unless he made only a brief mention, which
I could have missed. I hope it's not in the lost archives. I notive that
you seem to be mentioning conlang cycles in your message to Camilla:

> Välkommen tillbaka. (Undrar om din återkomst har nåt med den här
> conlangcykeln att göra. :)
I don't have any offline resources on Swedish. I guess the 1st 2 words are
welcome back, in which case I agree.

Jeff Jones