Re: Newbie says hi

 --- Mat McVeagh skrzypszy:

> Hi - name's Mat,
Welcome, welcome!
(Don't worry about Christophe. He survived The Big Storm, so no doubt he'll
eventually show up)

> I say REdiscovered because I invented several languages in my early teenage
> years. I recorded it all in several exercise books, often among school work
> and BASIC programming plans. I drifted away from it after a few years and
> mostly forgot about it. Now, having read about all these amazing languages
> everybody's being creating, I have been inspired to get involved again.
That's more or less my story, too!

> 4) "Ruman", probably the one I am going to have most fun reviving. It is a
> fictional Romance language, on the "what would have happened if there had
> been another country which developed an X type of language" principle, which
> I see many people have followed with their ficlangs. I imagined a small
> central European country called Talina that spoke Ruman, and that I was
> going to write a story about it (including interacting with other European
> countries and languages).
Central Europe? That's interesting. Could you tell us the location of Talina
more precisely? Is there any connection with Romania? How does it interfere
with other languages in Central Europe?
I am currently working on Wenedyk, a Romance conlang that looks suspiciously
like Polish. It is basically the result of applying the whole development of
Proto-Slavic into Polish to Vulgar Latin.

> Never got round to it of course... probably won't now, but it might be nice
> to revamp Ruman to a workable level on the Net, including some minor
> "pretend history" background.
Please do so! I will be very interested to see it.

> I have none of this on the web, so I will have to begin a website for it.
Don't forget do send us the link :)

> I think I am going to enjoy being on this list, :)
No doubt. Welcome again!

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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