Re: New to the list

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:36 -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: veritosproject@GMAIL.COM
> >Sent: May 16, 2006 10:08 AM
> >To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> >Subject: Re: new to the list
> >
> >Welcome!
> >
> >Glad to have you.  Ok, basic intro to the list's members.  Please add
> >yourself, I'm only adding the ones I can remember at the time.
> >
> >* Sai Emrys: crazy guy who ran the conlanging conference at Berkeley,
> >California.
> >* John Vertical: crazy Finnish guy who created uwjge (spelling)?
> >* John Quijada: crazy guy who created Ithkuil, the nightmarish
> >language that can *guaranteed* say anything you want in under 3 words.
> >* me/Mikhail Soloviev: crazy guy who doesn't do much conlanging.
>
> me/Paul Bennett: guy with rather more started projects than finished ones. Currently
> working on about 17 ideas, one of which has a more complicated (real world)
> genealogy than some royal families. Always ready to chime in with an AFMCL,
> and responsible for more than my fair share of YAEPTs. Not, for the record,
> left-handed, though I do have a beard. The third qualification is kinda
> murky: I'm happily married, but that was not always the case.
Cian Ross (yours truly): I resemble that first remark. :)  I have a
variety of notions in various stations of completion, incompletion,
and/or outright disarray.  The oldest, Veldan, now has over 1600 words
in the lexicon and continues to grow slowly and pick up the occasional
grammatical refinement.  I'll go for being yet another crazy guy who
conlangs, who got started by the quadruple influence of reading Tolkien,
learning a foreign language (Latin) in high school and not quite knowing
what to do with the perceived weirdnesses of it then, wanting nomenlangs
for the tabletop RPG world I started developing at the time, and just
being bored out of my skull in class way too often.  [There were the
occasional days when a teacher would catch me (apparently) taking notes
either in a new conlang experiment or in whatever conscript I was
tinkering with then.  This got me some good triple-takes and so
forth. :)]


Cian Ross
cian@cox-internet.com
http://crlh.tzo.org/~cian/conlang/