Re: CHAT: a little question

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

> grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com writes:
> >Sorry to say that, but do you receive my mails about my new project? I
> >have no feedback about it whereas I need some. Or are you too busy to
> >read my long posts? Be honest, I would like to know why my messages get
> >no answer :( .
>
> I do read your emails, *in a californian valley accent...* I am like soooo
> in the dark and stuff about all of those like linguistic terms and stuff
> :).  But what i can make out it is interesting. I'm sorry i cant give a
> deep analysis of your project like Boudewijn, Irina, Nik, etc. can.
>
I don't know whether I can ;-) - Just back from holiday and trying to
catch up, and anything that's longer than, say, 50 lines (which is the
size of my xterm), gets zapped pretty quickly. However, some things
just don't seem to get picked up, while others do. I've found that
extensive grammatical descriptions or long vocabulary lists (like my
grottochronology of Denden and several other conlangs) do better on
webpages, while more focussed topics and pointed questions do well on
the list.  Long pieces have a somewhat 'finished' appearance, which
doesn't invite much comment.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt