Re: CHAT: Anyone see the irony?

Well, here's words from another lurker (and proud of it) grinning to herself
wondering whether to throw down the challenge to have the eldest conlangers
identify themselves.

And--re:  the peevishness--it's like any social group--family, club,
legislature, world population--we're all intending to make nice with each
other, but, well, backs get up and human cantankerousness takes over.
(Aside:  how many conlangers have in their vocabularies a word for
cantankerousness?  If you post them, I'll make a limerick out of them, which
will be put to music and sung when things get hot.

Actually, I'm not just here to lurk, but learn and bide time until my
conlang is ready (sort of) for prime time with its web made public around
mid-December.

And I am personally delighted that the teenagers are coming out of the
closet--I've been visiting every site--if you haven't been to Adam Parrish's
domain, know that he is a maker of games--something I've been thinking is
very much in the heart of the spirit, impulse, and obsession of conlanging.

Diana

vardi wrote:

> Karol Conlangdjien! (Dear Conlangists)
>
> I'm probably not the first or only one to sense a certain irony here.
> Some people who just want to talk about languages, especially Conlangs,
> to each other manage to have nice and interesting conversations and
> enjoy themselves, thus bringing people closer together. Some other
> people are out to save the world and end up yelling at each offensively.
> Strange, innit??
>
> And BTW: I was stunned by the flood of responses from young people to
> the earlier message from Beorn - wulf. Just for example, Steg, I'd never
> have thought you were 17. Not that it matters, of course, it was just
> interesting suddenly to change my mental image of all these people whose
> contributions I read.  I'm 35, by the way, so the messages left me
> feeling positively senile.
>
> Any chance of getting back to the kind of atmosphere that prevailed on
> the list until a month or so ago?  I hope so.
>
>         Conlanglikeg coluiereiin
>         (In Conlangish friendship)
>
>         Shaul Vardi