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Re: The difficulties of being weirder than English

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Saturday, May 29, 2004, 16:31
En réponse à Sally Caves :


> > Welcome back! You've been missed here. Anything new on the conlanging >front? :) > >Only that I've discovered another student at my university who invents >languages and has never heard of CONLANG.
Nice! Any plan to bring him up here? ;)
> And my DSL (local high speed dial >up for which I've paid so much money) does not do a wireless route very >well; the fault I'm sure is in the router or the modem or the downstairs >computer and I have to figure it out and that's a HUGE PAIN.
I empathize. I have difficulties enough with a single computer installation. I can only imagine what it is to have more :( .
> As for my own >conlanging, I've been working on my Teonaht lexicon sporadically between >teaching classes, and I've been toying with the concept of a Teonaht >inventor of a philosophical language. :)
Nice! I wonder how a Teonaht speaker would view the concept of philosophical language, what categories he would make, what grammatical features he would deeem necessary or not, etc... :))
> Must work it into a story. Nice >to see you again, Christophe. How many new conlangers and conlangs since I >left a year ago?
Quite a lot it seems ;)) . New names never cease to appear, so much that I cannot follow them. Moreover, the last year has been rather chaotic for me, so I haven't been following Conlang as closely as I used to (between losing my former job at the University, staying a few months unemployed, and finally finding a nice but busy job that I've been in for now eight months, I haven't had much time for conlanging :(( ). But now that things have settled a bit, I have a bit more time to use on Conlang ;)) . It's good to have you back Sally! I hope you can stay here for good now! :) Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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Sally Caves <scaves@...>The difficulties of being more regular than Teonaht