Re: A late introduction

En réponse à Walter Tsuyoshi Sano <parsec@...>:

> Well, usually I introduce myself before posting anything else,
> but this is my third (or fourth) post. Anyway, here I am!
>
Welcome!

> I speak [Brazilian] Portuguese as mother tongue, studied German
> at school, and I'm trying to learn Italian-French-Spanish @_@
> When I was 1,5 years-old, my_parents+me moved to Japan. We spent
> a full year there, but soon after having come back to Brazil I
> reverted back to Portuguese -- that's why I'm studying Japanese
> [from the beginning] now (I don't seem to remember much from that
> time, a quarter-of-a-century a-gone :)
>
Nice background :) . Quite a preparation to conlanging :)) .

>
> I'm into (not necessarily in this order):
> 1) writing systems ("WoW! THIS is arabic? That's how it works?
>    'initial', 'medial', 'final' and 'isolated' forms? HEy! THIS
>    is Hangul? THIS is a featural code? Oh! So THIS is what ideograms
>    are all about? whAt? In Hebrew and Arabic you may omit vowels?
>    How's that possible?" and so on);
Hehe, I know exactly that feeling :)) . When it comes to scripts I get excited
like a ferret with shiny things :)) (I'm getting assimilated by Sluggy
Freelance!! ;)) Peter, it's your fault! :)) )

> 2) number systems (I've been studying soroban, the japanese abacus,
>    since 1996; been teaching for four years now);
> 3) horology (time and timekeeping)[1] and
>    calendrics (calendars, seasons, solstice etc.)[2];
> 4) conculture, science-fiction, RPG and the like.
>
Common interests among conlangers (I myself share them too :)) , at different
levels).

> My current project is more of a lablang/explang/engilang, I guess.
> It's called "PaTeKo" (derived form an earlier version, "BaVeDiGo"),
> a VSO-NAR language with an interesting way of naming numbers.
Well, now you make me curious. What is this interesting way of naming numbers?
If you share, I'll tell you about Notya in which numbers are named by rank
rather than by quantity :)) .

Christophe.

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