Re: I'm new!

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:16:59PM -0400, The Gray Wizard wrote:
[snip]
> Please join me in welcoming James to the list.
Hey, the Wizard is back! :-) It may please you to know, David, that I've
put up an initial (incomplete) version of my conscript on my website. The
URL (in case you lost the link since last time) is:
        http://quickfur.yi.org/~hsteoh/conlang/apex.html
The conscript page is:
        http://quickfur.yi.org/~hsteoh/conlang/writing.html

Comments are welcome (and hereby solicited) ;-)  (Note: if the above URL's
don't load, try replacing "yi.org" with "myip.org". After experiencing a
24-hour outage on my DNS service just a few days ago, I decided to
register for another DNS service to act as a contingency in case of future
failures.)

Anyway, I was about to say, Welcome, James, I mean, Lord Manwe! ;-)

>  James and I have been
> chatting via the chat facility on my website for several days and I
> encouraged him to join this list and present his language.  Haven't polled
> the list lately, but James at 14 surely competes for one of the youngest
> among us.
Honestly, I'm impressed by how developed his conlang is. He said it was a
rough sketch, and there's already so much to it! :-P I particularly liked
his adverbial prefixes. IMHO the careless way English adverbs are done is
ugly (attaching -ly to an adjective sometimes doesn't quite give a precise
enough meaning), so I've been thinking of using a similar system in my own
conlang.


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