Re: A late introduction

 --- Walter Tsuyoshi Sano wrote:

> Well, usually I introduce myself before posting anything else,
> but this is my third (or fourth) post. Anyway, here I am!
No, it's actually your fifth! But never mind, you deserve a warm
welcome anyway (although I think I did that already)... Sorry
Christophe, too late :)))

> How I got started in conlanging? I've probably stumbled across some
> IAL pages, which led to conlang ones, which led to conculture and
> world-building and map-making and... so on!
Map-making? That was one of my hobbies, too, when I was a teenager.
I've never been too deeply into conculturing, but my fascination with
both maps and languages resulted in my first conlang projects.

> 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);
Some of the List members created really beautiful con-scripts. You ought
to have a look at them. Although I think that some language look so nice
that they don't even need a special script!

> 4) conculture, science-fiction, RPG and the like.
You're in good company.

> 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.
NAR?

> Since I'll only have some spare time in July, I'm afraid
> there won't be any webpages on my conlanguages until then.
> But there will be!!
In the mean time (and afterwards), feel free to submit anything to
the list that you would like to share, or that you would like to
have some advise about. There are some real experts about linguists
in here (not including me), and a huge amount of natlangs are well-
represented, as well.

Regards,
Jan

=====
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought,
wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J.
Michael Straczynski

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