Re: Another Introduction
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 16, 2004, 9:48 |
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Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy the conlang list and find it useful.
Wesley Parish
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 06:49, Daniel Asserbo wrote:
> 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
> --
> Daniel "Asserbo" Quernheim
>
http://www.asserbo.de/
> I mainly use a Mac. Linux and Windows only on weekends.