Re: Hullo

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- Matt Trinsic skrzypszy:
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>>I just subscribed onto the list the other day and wanted to introduce
>>myself.
>
>
> Welcome to the List!!
>
John Cowan wrote:
 >
 > New blooooood, we loooooove new bloooooood ...

Thanks to you and all the others for the warm welcome =) And should I
keep a supply of garlic on hand when John Cowan is around? ;)

>
>>Im brand new around here, just discovering this list and all the
>>various conlang web sites a couple of weeks ago.
>
>
> Quite a discovery, eh? I still remember when I first search the Internet for
> conlang stuff, shortly after I had read an article about conlanging in a German
> magazine. Wow! I was flabbergasted! And in a way, it changed my life, because
> from that moment on I started taking my own conlanging much more seriously.
>
Yes, I know the feeling. Already I feel like i've accomplished more on
my language in the past week then I had done in the couple of months
beforehand.

>
>>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.
>
>
> Would you like to give us some info about your language? What is its name, how
> does it work, is it related to existing languages, etc.?
>
        Sure! It has always been intended as an "a priori" (I hope i got that
right) language for an alien race. The only major exception to this is
that I also want to be able to speak the language myself, so I
sacrificed a bit of realism to gain a bit more fun and gave the aliens
remarkably human-like vocals ;). Other then that, I've been attempting
to give the aliens ( that somewhat resemble winged snakes ) a distinct
culture to reflect through their language. The language itself is called
slaalehg ihkreen, which translates to "sky language". The orthography
(another new word) hasn't yet really been formalized yet. The language
has its own script in which it is written, and so far when typing it in
roman characters I usually just try using the letters that seem most
likely to have people pronounce it correctly.
        Increasing the size of the lexicon is where the bulk of my work on the
language has recently turned. I've started writing up a post for the
"weekly vocab" practice. It looks like a very useful idea! =)

>>        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.
>
>
> There is on indispensable link for members of the conlang list, that contains a
> lot of info about various stuff: <http://www.conlanglinks.tk> . You can also
> find a link there to "Yer Ugly Mug", that contains profiles of many members of
> the list. If you want, you can add your own profile there, too.
>
Hey, great!

> Once more, welcome to the list, and happy conlanging!
>
> Jan
>
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