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Re: New to the list

From:Julia "Schnecki" Simon <helicula@...>
Date:Thursday, May 18, 2006, 6:00
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-) -- Julia Simon (Schnecki) -- Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst _@" schnecki AT iki DOT fi / helicula AT gmail DOT com "@_ si hortum in bybliotheca habes, deerit nihil (M. Tullius Cicero)