Re: I'm new!

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Jeff Jones wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:48:25 -0400, Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
>
> >Hello to everyone on the list who wasn't on it when last I posted. (I'm
> >out of it--coming down with something that's looking increasingly like
> >the bronchitis I fought off two years ago, schoolwork, more stuff I won't
> >bore you with.)  :-)
>
> Hope you get well right away (but if you don't, a writer can always use the
> experience, right?). I'm out of it most of the time, even when I think I'm
> in it.
Oh, most definitely--people think I'm strange the way I regard getting
sick.  The only problem is I had bronchitis for over a year *before,*
which is the stupid way to go about it.

> >Am I the only person who *didn't* start conlanging in earnest (as opposed
> >to the pathetic 6th grade semi-French-rune-English attempt that doesnt'
> >count) before the age of 20?  <pulling a face>
>
> I started conlanging sometime before age 20, but not 'in earnest' until
> after. When I joined this list I hoped to learn more linguistics, but so
> far I've learned mainly *humility*.
Good grief, me too.

> ObConlang: I want to improve the phonological description of my conlang,
> but am still not clear about some terminology. Anybody want to help?
<thinking>  I don't know a lot, but if there's anything I can do I can
try.  I did check out a book on phonology/phonetics....

> >YHL, looking around virtually at all the brilliant people out there
> Jeff AKA Charly Gordon, feling sory for poor Yoon Ha, sinse she is onley a
> jenius.
!  Absolutely not.  Overspecialized is more like it.  :-p  <remembering
"Flowers for Algernon">  Being at Cornell has taught me humility in
spades, too.  There are people who are good at languages, and people who
are good at engineering, and people who are good at not stressing out (a
skill I wish I had), and people who are good at so many wondrous
things...it really amazes me.  :-)

YHL