Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Hello to you all!

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, March 4, 2002, 9:23
En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <IJzeren_Jan@...>:

> > >Well, I live in Den Haag, Maarten in Rotterdam and you in > Amsterdam... > > Not exactly in Amsterdam. I actually live in Zaandam since almost two > months. >
Where is it? As long as it's near enough to Den Haag that you can come here for dinner :)) .
> >Time for a dinner! Of course, you're invited here, as Matt said, my > beloved half is rather good at cooking :)) . > > Sounds delicous, especially 'cause I'm rather good at eating :)... >
You will like it here then :)) . So, Maarten, Jan, when are you available for this dinner? And Rob, do you want to join?
> > I know, but it sounds more than it is! I mean: one native tongue, five > languages at school,
?!!! Five at school?!!! What kind of studies did you do?! which leaves only three more languages to learn.
> When > is was 18, I started to learn Polish, just for the fun of it. Now I am > a > Polish translator.
Fun can bring very far :)) . When I studied East-European Studies, I had to
> learn > Russian (most of which I forgot already, even though I live with a > Russian > girl).
Hehe, she's invited too of course (Jan will feel less lonely if there are not only conlangers at the table :)) ). And the subject of my thesis prompted me to learn at least some
> Ukrainian. But if I may say so: my French is jolly rotten, and so it > my > Russian, not to speak of my Ukrainian. >
It still makes 6 languages. Far more than average!
> > Only recently I started to make a few translations in my langs. The > funny > thing was, that I immediately found out what I did not like in them. As > a > result, every translated sentence led to changes in both grammar and > vocabulary. This means that they are currently all under construction. > Anyway, it's quite difficult to work on several languages > simultaneously. >
Don't I know! I'm currently writing a grammar of Astou while still working on Itakian. Which basically means that when I'm working on one, the other doesn't move :(( . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

Reply

Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>