Re: I'm new!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hopkins" <Espero9@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: I'm new!


> A Welcome to James from the Druni!
> (Sabutóva dralkadíma Yakobése tá Druntaniéna!)
Thank you for the welcome!
>
> We would all love to see more of your language.
> (Ár báshit sholáris shúnya shéy mogáris brinyánen.)
That is kind, and I will endeavour to put the output of my labour onto the
net within time. For now though, a short grammar and lexicon can be found at
http://website.lineone.net/~istari/ling.htm
>
> When did you start constructing languages?
> (Ránti tá sitsholovó sítya mabugyáve?)
Good question!
Maybe when I was 9 or 10. I remember the first thing I put together
resembling a language had a lexicon composed of near latin-borrowings and a
grammar which showed an OSV word order and agglutinating verb endings to
show person/tense. I can't tell you when I created that. Since then there
have been many little languages most not reaching beyond about 100 words in
vocabulary, although one language, Minervan, a mock-european language
reached around 500 words.

Tell us more about yourself!
(Shéri báshey mogése arrúvya!)

Ok, I'm James O'Connell, I'm 14 years old, 3/4 English, 1/4 Irish, and live
not far from the wonderful township of Ipswich in the South East of England.
I was born, however, in Westminster, London.
I adore football, tolkien, food, sleep, squah, linguistics, web design,
computer games and roman history.

What is the name of the language you are working on now?
(Kiinízhe mishtaratyíra tá shól shéri kiíney tsórni vadikyáre?)

It has no name at the moment, as I will wait till an appropriate name comes
to mind.

Is it your only project?
(Késh iíd báshit múrnit úchas onyára?)

At the moment, yes.
Will there be others?
(Késh tamágit uchasovó lafiyázhe?)

Maybe, but I hope not - I hope to really knuckle down on this one and get it
somewhere respectable.
Again, we welcome you to the list!
Múku shtá, bashóva tá ritarenése dralkadimafyári!)
Again, thank you!

Jim H
Tá Druntán

James
Lord Manwe
jamestomas2@yahoo.co.uk


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