Re: New to the list

Hello!

On 5/16/06, Israel Noletto <israelnoletto@...> wrote:
>
>  Greetings from Brazil!!!
> I'm new to this list so here goes a short introduction:
>
> My name is Israel Noletto, I live in Brazil and I am 20 years old.
> I started conlanging recently, in 2002 if the memory serves. I probably got
> interested in conlanging because of my father's conlang - Nathanian - but it
> all before I knew about all the other conlangs around the globe. Hope to
> have great discussions here:
Welcome! :-)

I'm jealous -- your father is a conlanger too? Wow. I don't have any
conlanging relatives, or at least none that I know of (and as far as I
know, I only have one relative who's interested in any kind of
linguistics at all)...

Since we're all (re-)introducing ourselves: My name is Julia, and I'm
a thirty-something German living in Finland. I'm a linguist by
training; I've spent most of my working life in various technical
fields, but always doing something with some linguistic aspect or
another (software development at first -- spell checkers, syntax
analysis tools, and the like; but nowadays I'm working as a technical
writer in the telecommunications sector).

I have a handful of *really* sketchy conlangs -- or rather, stacks and
bundles of notes labeled "Collection of ideas for a writing system
based on such-and-such", "Collection of ideas for a language with
syntax of this-and-this type", "Collection of ideas about phonemic
tone", and so on. ;-)

And then there's Sakwosin, which is somewhat less sketchy (well, it
should be -- it's the one I've been working on the longest, about a
year now); so far, I've completed the phonology, I have some more or
less tentative vocabulary, and there's also something that will
hopefully become a coherent morphology and syntax someday. *sigh* It's
not easy, though; I have this compulsion to avoid anything that looks
too familiar or "European" or "easy", so I constantly find myself
tangled up in complicated polysynthetic morphology or inhumanly
complex sets of sandhi rules... :-/

Now back to lurking...

Regards,
			Julia 8-)

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