Sorry, the mail was supposed to be sent to the whole list.
En réponse à Matthew Butt <m.butt@...>:
> Have hit about 19 glitches so far, so here's a copy of the original
> email:
Well, this one obviously made it to here ;)) . Welcome! (I'm usually the first
one to welcome new people, but being sick I'm not so much in front of the
computer currently :(( )
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> have been spying this last week trying to get the measure of the
> group.
> and have failed. so i'll stop hiding.
>
Hehe, we're a strange lot aren't we? :))
> name: matthew (bnathyuw)
>
> yob: 1979 (30404)
>
> pob/por: london (landadn)
>
> l1: english (baca thingland)
>
Between |baca| which makes me think of Japanese |baka|: stupid, and the name of
the language which make me think of the native name of Klingon, I get the
impression that you don't like much your native language :))) .
> ll2: french, latin, greek (baca phrans, baca lahtio, baca shellad)
>
Lovely names :)) . French written with |ph|? Parlez-vous phrançais? ;))))
> ll3?!: dutch, german (bits of other stuff too) ( baca dneyderland,
> baca
> dhoycland, tehte bhahcucic)
>
Well, with all those examples I have just one question: does this language also
want to reach Maggelity? ;))))
>
> Eurogen-does this make the EU a eurogenous zone ?
>
LOL :))
> width-in careful speech i say [widT] . . . am i a freak ?
>
Not at all! By the way that's the way I always pronounced it (although having
English as a L2 rather than L1, I'm not much of an example...).
>
> is there some protocol for saying hi ? happy to answer any
> questions/supply any info i've missed.
>
No, you covered pretty much everything :)) .
> a country without a language is a country without a heart:
> ilasagp bhac Shuc esb Suc
>
> gil-togetherness
> sap-person
> gilasap-community
> ilasagp-country
>
> bac-language (see above !)
>
> suc-outside, separateness
> Suc-be outside, be without
>
> seb-blood
> esb-heart
>
Interesting derivations. What does the capitalisation of the first letter in
suc mean? Does it have a special pronunciation?
Christophe.
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