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Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities

From:Michael Poxon <mike@...>
Date:Sunday, January 27, 2008, 23:21
This is the first I've heard about the gregarious Brits! Mind you, even in
Britain, the part of the country I live in is thought of as vaguely strange
(we have webbed hands, six fingers, etc...)
Did notice in one of the photos there was a lady called "hokulani" which is
Hawaiian ("starry heavens"), so you can probably add that to the list of
exotic places!


    escpecially not for our  British members, who meet quite regularly I
think. As for
> age, I think the average should be 16 over there. That's of course a lot > younger than here. As for internationality, there is certainly an > awareness of that. Sure the biggest part of the ZBB consists of Americans > (generic term), but there also a lot of British people, quite a few > Swedes, some Australians/New Zealanders, some Finns, some French and a > couple of Germans ... the most exotic places (I'd say) we have each a > member from are Iceland and Java. Also AFAICT many of the regulars keep > contact among themselves with IMing, IRC, Skype and the like outside of > the board, too. >