Re: CHAT: New to list

On Monday 20 January 2003 9:21 pm, E. Notagain wrote:
> I'm not sure if introductions are traditional here, but I'll take my
> chances.
>
> I've been interested in languages for as long as I can remember, and tried
> to create one when I was 11, before I had even heard of conlang or even
> Lord of the Rings (which, to this day, I have never been able to read, but
> I speak some Quenya and Sindarin anyway. *shrugs*). The "language" I made
> wasn't really a language at all, just a collection of Spanish, Kemetic and
> Hawaiian words used as a code for English.
> In the few years since then I've gotten even deeper into languages, and
> recently (read: about six months ago) discovered that not only do a LOT of
> other people make languages, but there're names for the different types and
> communities of people who do this.
> Naturally, I was (and am) ecstatic to find other people with the same
> interests -- I've been boring my friends and family, trying to teach them
> Meistei and Pr'ii.
> My particular areas of interest are creating the words themselves, followed
> by scripts, followed by grammar and pronunciation (tie).
> My languages are Meisteik, Kaveril, Pr'ii, Ysvanidh, Orantith, Intorith,
> Kazle, and a few other larval langs.
>
> Now that I've gotten the "recap-my-history" thing done, I have a few
> questions: Does anyone know any sites that have Japanese, Chinese (any
> form), or Korean wordlists/dictionaries that have been transliterated into
> English?
> And, does anyone know a good, free online guide to learning any Devangari-
> based scripts? (Bengali is best, but it doesn't matter much)
> AND, where can I find the IPA phonetic alphabet, as applicable to ASCII?
Well, for links about Conlangs http://www.conlanglinks.tk They'll have a link
to the ASCII-IPA thing.

Anyhow, welcome to the list, and stuff.

> Thanks for any help (and I hope I'm not too hard to understand -- I'm
> suffering from a Dr. Pepper overdose),
> --Erin Notagain--