Re: sending mail to the list

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


>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?

Óskar

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