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--- Italocarune skrzypszy: > Benencontrati e chao. Thought I'd introduce myself. You probably > don't know of Carune, my romance conlang, though you might. Actually, I do, but that's probably because I've been active on Langmaker lately! :) Bieńwięty o nostra grupa! > I find myself intrigued by your abbreviation. I had previously > coined the term "romlang", which is somewhat shorter. > But yours is clearer. As Padraic explained, we used to have a separate group called "romanceconlang", but there were two problems with it: it attracted too many people who apparently were misguided by the first half of the name, and the group was ownerless. So, it became a target for spammers, and that was so annoying that we decided to move and create a new group. The reason why we picked "romconlang" is that it belongs to a family of related groups (germaniconlang, slaviconlang, celticonlang, uraliconlang etc.), and that the name "romlang" might also include Romance natlangs. > In case you wondered, my username is derived from the subfamily of > romance languages to which Carune and its cousin M�nzo belong. The > Italo-Carune family is the second subbranch of the Ibero-Italic > (cross between Spanish and Italian=Carune). What I did find remarkable in the genealogy though, is that it doesn't mention the word "Romance"! In any case, the language has a nice look-and-feel. Indeed, it definitely evokes Italian recollections rather than Spanish! But you, as an Italian (right?) may of course have a completely different idea. BTW, I think "con-dialects" are far too rare in our art... Jan "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." http://steen.free.fr/ . ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/