Re: sending mail to the list

--- Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 06:23:18 -0700, SuomenkieliMaa
> <suomenkieli@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Hello everyone!
> >
> >This is my first time to the list, I'm a new-comer.
> >Just a quick 'hi' to introduce myself, and to say
> that
> >I'm glad there are other people interested in
> creating
> >languages (as I thought I was the only one with
> such a
> >unique hobby).  I just hope I haven't sent to the
> >wrong place - the rules to this CongLang list are
> >enough to think you're learning a new language!
>
> Welcome! :) Yes, there are, surprisingly enough,
> other lunatics around than
> you :) :) But conlanging is actually a very healthy
> hobby, and should,
> IMHO, be almost compulsory for any student of
> linguistics; it's always been
> the driving force of my linguistics study.
>
> Just wondering: is that "CongLang" a subconscious
> "misspelling" of yours,
> or a linguistic joke? The capital letters imply the
> second option, but
> the 'ngl' could be a curious surfacing of some
> phonological condition in
> your native speech... :p
Oskar, *hehe* thanks for the welcome.  I'm quite
fanatical about my pursuit to be an excellent
conlang'er.  I admit, though, I have a long to go.
You guys are killing me with all these linguist terms
I do not know.  Scary for me to send out an email, but
alas, I just bite the bullet and let her go in my own
way.

Not sure what you mean about the joke above.  It was
not intended to be comical... to show you how ignorant
I must be!  Oh well... teach me please!  I find this
all quite intriguing, but tiring.  Still sorting
through my first 400 emails!!!!  On 250 after 2
days!!! What to do??

> >In the future, I hope to ask for advice on
> something
> >I'm concocting called "Vya:a:h" (cultural
> background
> >pending too) which is a bit of a spin-off language
> of
> >Finnish (esp. the Finn "a:" and "y") yet with its
> own
> >character system like Cambodia; and holding lots of
> >logically-formed, but beautiful-sounding consonant
> >clusters like Polish.
>
> Sounds great! I once considered a character-based
> semi-syllabary
> orthography for the Scandinavian languages
> (including the insular ones,
> Icelandic and Faroese). It got a bit out of hand,
> but was an interesting
> possibility. Is Finnish somehow well suited to such
> an orthography?
Vya:a:h will be based from Finnish, but purely its own
self.  Haven't mapped it all out yet tho!  I want to
try to include some non-popular Asian languages, as
much as possible (like Khmer).  Thing is, it all must
be done with elegance.  I've got too much real-life
work nowadays to devote myself to these hobby projects
of mine, but I hope to do so to some degree... Would
appreciate everyone's kind advice.  I am a novice...

Regards
Young Matt


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