Re: I'm new!

> From: H. S. Teoh
>
> 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
Thanks, T.  I did actually print out the material on your site and took it
with me on vacation with all the best intentions of reading through it.
Unfortunately, I never got to it (OT see
www.graywizard.net/Cruise/cruise.htm for what I did instead).  I will read
it however.

> 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.
Yes, he likes to pretend that its all rather sketchy, but he's got a
surprisingly sophisticated start.

David

David E. Bell
The Gray Wizard
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