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Re: Hullo

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 9:16
En réponse à Matt Trinsic :

>Hello to everyone, >I just subscribed onto the list the other day and wanted to introduce >myself. Im brand new around here, just discovering this list and all the >various conlang web sites a couple of weeks ago. I hope you have room >for a newbie on the list, Im still learning the various terms and >conventions of the hobby.
Welcome to the list! And yes, we have room to every newbie who comes around :)) .
> I was happily surprised to find that there were so many people who >built their own languages for fun. From the websites, it seems some of >you have put incredible amounts of effort into many different languages. >My own efforts are much more modest. Ive been working on a language off >and on for the last ten years, although most of that was experimentation >to determine how I wanted the language to work.
Do you have anything yet you would like to present to the list?
> I have already learned a lot of useful stuff good for refining my >language off the websites, and I hope to continue learning more here.
As Jan said already, http://www.conlanglinks.tk is the very must for the newbie. You can find there glossaries of linguistic terms (necessary to follow the discussions here), descriptions of IPA and X-SAMPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet and the ASCII transcription of it most commonly used here (with few modifications), necessary to discuss phonology, give examples of how your language is pronounced, and understand without ambiguity how other people's languages are pronounced, and of course Yer Ugly Mug to see how ugly we all look like ;))))) . Welcome again! Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.