Re: Lurkers
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 23, 2000, 2:19 |
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, nicole perrin wrote:
>On a similar note to all this about lurkers, I'd be curious to know how
>many there are, and how many people are actually on the list. I bet
>it'd be quite a few people, hmm?
There are 201 subscriptions as of March, 2000. Rather a few folks have
multiple subscriptions (home, office, school, etc.) I'ld estimate no
fewer than 175 individuals. As I've said, I recognise about 30 to 50
of these as "regulars". Though to be sure, there are perhaps 10 or 20
that post incessantly. ;^)
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>BTW, I guess I'd consider myself a lurker, although I post
>occasionally. And *my* reasons? Usually because I don't have anything
>to say about a particular topic. When I do, I post. Also, I always
>mean to do translation exercises and post them, but I never have
>time--my langs are all so under-developed that to do even the simplest
>translations I'd probably have to invent new vocabulary, and probably
>rework grammar, and it would just eat up way to much of my time, esp
>during the school year.
I agree. But poor, poor baby! Isn't that what we all do as conlangers?
- invent new vocabulary and rework grammar? :)
Padraic.
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>Nicole
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