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From:Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
Date:Friday, April 27, 2001, 0:59
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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