Re: Someone looking for numbers

Quoting Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:

> I've gotten a few emails from someone named "Janko Gorenc" asking for the
> numbers 1-10 in my conlang.  Normally, i would answer such an email, but
> it's addressed to just "Dear," without any name, and it's written in one
> of those bold fonts that spammers like to use.  So i don't know if it's a
> real person.  I'd expect Janko to just email the list as a whole to ask
> for people's conlang's numbers, which would probably get them a lot more
> responses.  Has anyone else gotten an email from Janko?
Could be worse. A couple years ago, some guy from Poland contacted
me by email asking me to write him a "Hymn to Fire" in Degaspregos.
It turned out he was involved in some sort of cult, and was using
my language in his ceremonies, and mentions me and my conlang by
name on his website. It's all in Polish, so I can't read it, but my
name and the conlang's name are clear enough.

(I never wrote the hymn, FWIW.)

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