Re: Lurkers

John, it took me several months on this list, several books, 10000 web
pages, 100 reference grammars and a partridge and a pear tree before I began
to understand what people on this list were discussing. Now that I do
understand, I am diligently working away at my conlang ideas, with enormous
gratitude to you folks for planting the seeds in my brain I need for my lang
garden. These days, I lurk because ... I'm not finished! I'm sure that my
graditude will mean more when I can display the ripe fruits of my stay on
this list.
Being a bit of a perfectionist, this takes time. A lexicon of 14000+ terms
is not enough. No less than 7 rich grammars is not enough (sseyavven means
"languages express", because it is actually 7 langs with some overlapping
grammar and common lexicon). I am creating interactive lessons for the lang.
I mean to be fluent in it!
Then, I am not sure how to publish info on it. I don't actually want it to
be public domain, but I do want to share it with everyone on this list.
After all, you deserve it.


-----Original Message-----
From: John Mietus [mailto:sirchuck@MACOMB.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 8:06 PM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: Lurkers


Howdles,

yl-ruil spake, saying:



To all our Lurkers:
I'm not trying to be offensive; I honestly don't understand. Why lurk? Don't
you feel like you want to join in with all the arguments (whoops! civilised
debates). That's the best bit for me- my first day on the list I sparked off
an argument (the s-->h debate, which I thought should go s->z->h) and the
most recent such was my argument with Vasily about fracturing in OE (that
was fun! thanks Basileus!). What do you actually do, just read all the
postings?

Dan

----
Bengesko niamso.
Cursed German.
----
Dan Morrison (http://www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/index.html)



I joined this list about two weeks ago and have been overwhelmed by the
volume of input. Mostly I've been lurking simply to get caught up on
terminology -- I consider myself a *very* rank amateur at this point and
feel I have very little to contribute at this time.

I will, however, be posting about my model language project in the next
month or so.

Like an octopus in deep fat,

John