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Re: Hello!



I guess i'll introduce myself also. I'm 21 and i live in Davis, CA, 
USA. I'm a college student at UC Davis and spend my free time on 
conlanging and my girlfriend. I'm a linguistics and computer science 
double major, so i have a little background in linguistics. 

As far as what to do on the list, i'm interested in both discussing 
lexical semantics and learning katanda (but i can't really start that 
myself for another couple weeks). Lexical semantics is one of the 
inspirational sources for my conlang Minyeva, so you'll hear me 
mention that language occasionally. I read lexical semantics a few 
years ago, and that was before i had taken any linguistic classes, so 
i didn't *fully* understand it at that time (although i mostly did). 
I plan to read it again soon.

For the rules of the list, i'm not sure of the exact rules of the 
conlang list, but i'm sure they would work fine. 

So, let's start exploring! :)

--- In katanda@y..., "overthrowyertle" <overthrowyertle@y...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>      Well, this is the first message for this new group, 
and...well...I 
> don't really know what to say.  
>       First of all, a little about myself.  My name's Jeremy 
Louzao, 
> I'm 21 and I live in Bellingham, WA, USA.  I'm currently a college 
> student but I actually spend more time doing political activism 
> and pursuing hobbies like conlangs and yo-yoing and such.  
> While I'm extremely interested in linguistics and conlanging, I 
> must say that I'm very new to it all, so I ask that people please 
> consider my lack of hard-core knowledge when discussing 
> things on this list.  I want to be challenged to learn and study 
> more, but I don't want to be left behind as we start exploring the 
> details of Katanda.
>      Which brings us to this list.  What do we want to accomplish 
> here?  Are people interested more in just discussing Lexical 
> Semantics and the ideas that Katanda represents or do people 
> want to actually work together to learn Katanda?  How many 
> people have read Lexical Semantics?  If not, you can find all the 
> necessary stuff at www.srv.net/~ram .
>      What about rules for the list?  Do we even need to discuss 
> this or can we assume that they are the same as the conlang 
> and auxlang lists?
>        What do people think?  Where do we want to go?  Right now 
> I'm up for anything, and I'm excited about all the neat stuff we 
> have to explore!
>        Talk to y'all soon,
> 
> Jeremy
> personal e-mail at socialanarchist@h...