Re: Family Project votes

In a message dated 7/31/01 9:50:54 PM, frterminus@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< I thought we could call it Arda, to honor Tolkien,
who got many of us into this hobby. >>

    I'm not a Tolkien fan, but I like Arda, since it reminds me of Nabokov's
"Ada, or Ardor".

<<I've got a gentleman who emailed me privately. He
doesn't really want to participate in the language
family thing, per se, but would like to place his
conlang there as sort of a later addition (new
colonists from the Federation, or something of the
sort). He thought he'd borrow a lot from our langs,
and that we might borrow from his as well. I don't
know much about what he plans or has in mind (I plan
to ask him) beyond he wants his own government. Are
the participants (and our observers Iain, Roger, and
David P.) okay with this, or would you all prefer to
keep the planet just to us?>>

    Fine by me, but when you say "David P.", do you mean David me?  I didn't
want to be an observer; I wanted to participate.  I'm up to it; I can swing
it.

-David Peterson

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