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Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 13:03
Fun! fun!, ::jumpin up & down::
 a conlang survey... we haven't one like this in quite a while IIRC...

>1)Where were you brought up?
born: London, England UK raised hell in: Houston, Texas, USA
>2)Where do you live, countrywise?
the eastern environs of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
>3)What is your nationality, as you see it?
I am Space Alien and Trickster Archetype Incarnate... the human I inhabit is Sino-British.
>4)Where does your family come from?
Southern China via South East Asia courtesy of the British Empire
>5)What colour is your hair?
Black as a moonless night.
>6)What colour are your eyes?
Black like twin barrels of a shotgun ;)
>7)What colour is your skin?
Semi-chromatic :) reddish-to-tannish mostly... and I have lotsa calluses, scars and tattoos :)
>8)Are you left or right handed?
Ambiguous ;) with a wicked left hook and a smashin' right...
>9)What is/are your mother tongue(s)
mother tongue - educated South East Asian English, Indo-Malay Variety stepmother tongue - World English, American Variety
>10)Are you fluent in any other languages? If so, which?
Non-sense! Ok, seriously: Speaking - very basic polite phrases & insults in Cantonese and reaally awful Texas-style Spanglish (and a few French Foreign Legionaires claim I speak a really mangled _Français cabinet_ - a gutter mix of Montreal, Louisana and Corsican) Reading/Writing - some minimal fluency in Italian, French and Spanish, and of all things *gigglafit!* Interlingua; limited fluency in German & Romaji (AFAIK I am gainin' fluency in Dutch ;) and Bislama...
>11)Are you homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual?
::grins:: Is asexual an option? Or ambiguous, hehe? Ok, or howabout wiseass? or sado-masochist?
>12)What (non-)religion are you?
Hyper & Manic ;)
>13)What denomination of that religion?
Frenetic & Heretic ;)
>14) Finally, what is your favourite colour?
Day Glo Orange, Opalescent Black, Yves Klein Bleu Internationale, Saffron, Cinnabar, Jade Green... Also anything shiney ;) ::eyes the shiney conlang census microphone, sits on hands::
>- Beard? Moustache?
Fu Manchu. Straggly hairs growing out of my cheeks. Makes me look like a parolee outta San Quentin (State Prison).
>Glasses?
Safety goggles.
>- Smoking?
I'm smokin?! Am I on fire again 0_o?!!
>- Drinking?
No thanx. Clean & Sober nearly 3 years. And I take my psych meds (mosta the time). And I love it. (& certain cops who knew me in the past are probably very very relieved and happy too [Long ago, a cop nicknamed me "Stripe" - a fter the evil gremlin in the movie _Gremlins_ . More recently a drug rehab counselor gave me the nicer nickname of "Stitch"...) ---///// __/_//_/ __/_// in the yera of 2004 CE, year 4702 of the Huangdi era, Year of the Wooden Monkey, _Jia-Shen_... Nom de Guerre: Hanuman "Stitch/626" Zhang AIN Resistance partisan code name: "Z23-4C" WOGeR (Wiley Oriental Gentleman/Rogue) BBC (BritishBornChinaman) Avatar of Sun Wu K'ung, a.k.a. Sun Wukong, a.k.a _Ma-Lau_ ("Monkey King") a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers" http://www.uglychinese.org/war.htm ¡¡¡ TricksterShapeShifterIncarnate !!! >^..^< ';' ;P~~~ => om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat <= mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod ==> Ko nahi janat hai jag mein kapi, sankat mochan naam tiharo <== [Who does not know that in this world oh monkey, thy name is one which liberates one out of all problems]. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "I rather be whole than good." - Carl Jung
>Do I contradict myself? >Very well then, I contradict myself. >I am large, I contain multitudes. > --Walt Whitman, _Leaves of Grass_
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