Re: Newbie alert...

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Bjorn Kristinsson wrote:

> I'm new to the list and thought I'd introduce myself before doing anything
> else :)
Greetings!

> Right, then. I'm a long-time conlanger, but was unaware of conlanging as a
> hobby until a few years ago when I ran into some conlanging webpages. Since
> then I've been much more serious in my approaches to conlanging, but sadly
> I still haven't managed to create a conlang that has gotten past
> the "right, I'm going to make a conlang now, and this is what I want it to
> be like" stage. But still, with every attempt I feel I'm getting closer, so
> I might put up a language of my own on a page one of these days, who knows.
Do I ever know the feeling.  :-)
>
> Anyway, currently I'm studying English in the University of Iceland in
> Reykjavik, with emphasis on linguistics, of course :)
I only wish I could say I were studying Icelandic.  <rueful look>
Er...skoll?  Or is that Norwegian only, or...?

(We had a series of Very Bad jokes about Persian? or was it Scythian?
skull-cups, skoll?  skjoll?  meep?, and mud-wrestling Amazons in history
yesterday...one of the people in that class is from Norway.)

Yoon Ha Lee, apologizing for her lack of knowledge of other languages

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