Re: Another Introduction

Hello conlanging folks,

may I introduce myself. I am a 19-year old German from the town of
Soest which is (not really) famous for its parish fair which is (or
pretends to be?) the largest inner-city parish fair in Europe. (It is
located between Dortmund and Paderborn.) I've already been observing
the list for quite a time now, and now that I have some more free time,
I decided to present myself to you. (I was also motivated by many
people joining the list lately.)

I speak English, French and Danish (actually, my surname is the name of
a Danish village I lived in from 2001/08 through 2002/02) almost
fluently, and some bits of Polish.
Right now I'm doing my social service, and I'd like to study Natural
Language Processing thereafter because I'm not only interested in
languages but also in Computer Science and the logic behind languages.
My main subjects in school were Maths, French, Computer Science and
History.

I'm afraid I have not yet worked much on conlangs. I once read a book
by Willy Hochkeppel, "Denken als Spiel" (I think it is only available
in German), a collection of brain-twisters, where the author presented
two invented languages which differed much from the languages I knew
but were strictly logical. The goal was to deduce grammatical rules
from given, translated snippets and to translate another text. Sadly, I
don't own that book, but I remember one language was rather
agglutinating while the other one worked with consonant stems which
took different meanings when exchanging the vowels. This fascinated me,
and I tried to develop these ideas somewhat further, but with little
success- I guess I was too young at that time. But anyway, conlanging
caught me and after following some discussions on this list in the past
three years I feel I finally am ready to participate.

Best wishes from Germany,
Daniel "Asserbo" Quernheim
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Daniel "Asserbo" Quernheim
http://www.asserbo.de/
I mainly use a Mac. Linux and Windows only on weekends.

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