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Re: CHAT: a little question

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Saturday, September 4, 1999, 19:33
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