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Re: You

Posted: 23 Jan 2017 15:58
by Egerius
Two years? This deserves an update:

Alias(es): Egerius, Wulfstan, Leofric, Cesarius, Argentius Bonavallensis, [≥1 grapheme] + [real-life name]
Location: (officially) Germania, rheno vicinus, Polonia, masuriis (inoficially)
Date of Birth: September 29, 1993
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Education: German Abitur
Occupation: Student of Italian and English philologies, BA
Political Ideology: Socialist/Left
Religion: Roman-Catholic Christian
Interests: Conlanging, conworlding, western calligraphy, drawing, LARP, (Late) Rome/early Middle Ages/Renaissance, 80's - 90's retrocomputing (Non-PC-clones)
Favorite Music: 80s (MJ, Queen), Beatles, ecclesiastic chants (Corsican, Roman, Beneventan)
Favourite TV: News, Simpsons, documentaries, Doctor Who
Favourite Film: Harry Potter, Tolkeinverse, Back to the Future
Favourite Books: Fiction: See above. Non-fiction: More stuff than would fit here.
Natlang Education: English (C2), Polish (Native, refined C2 level), (minimal) Latin, Spanish (B1/B2), Standard Italian (B2, expanding), West Saxon and Early South-Western Middle English (can beg for food and swear)
Favourite Natlang: Italian in appearance, English in versatility, West Saxon and South-Western Early Middle English for spells (and academic purposes, of course!)
Favourite Conlang: Wenedyk (van Steenburgen), Selvesc (Dormouse559)
Conlangs: Romanz (Buonavallese, Saselvan, Argemontese), Wínlandisch, Proto-Avesto-Umbric (on hibernation)
Conworld(s): Rodentèrra (non-magic, anthropocritic/anthroposatiric) [2013+, English], World of Ur-Land (magic, fantasy world) [2016+, German]
Where do you see yourself in ten years? With a Master's degree in my hands, lots of unfinished short stories and three unfinished books, but a mass of background material.
Other:
  • Created the Dragon Script in 2007/2008, which survives in a facsimile of a late 2013 transcript; general draft of Rodentèrran runes.
    Still a proud Mac user. Proud, but not stuffing it into everyone's throat!
    Mín líf is to scrifanne and leornian.

Re: You

Posted: 10 Feb 2017 21:06
by quixoticxenoglot
Actual name: Salem.
Alias(es): secondmoonofuranus, softchara
Location: That state with all the cheese.
Date of birth: 2000-01-28 (age 17).
Gender: Anywhere between bigender and trans female depending on my mental state. Any pronouns are fine, I don't really have the energy to care [:P]
Occupation: High school student, cashier.
Interests: Alternate history, regular history, conlanging and linguistics (obviously!!), cartography.
Favourite music: Awful, awful electronica and genres suffixed with -punk.
Political ideology: Some kind of far-lefty, influences from anarcho-syndicalism and council communism.
Religion: Lazy generic Abrahamic theism.
Conlangs: Half a million half-completed sketches, and also one I'll be posting pretty soon but that I don't have a name for yet (!!!)
Other hobbies: Writing, worldbuilding, computer games, biking when it's not the dead of winter.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Facedown in a ditch, dead, by the side of the highway. Ideally out of college and semi-financially stable.

Re: You

Posted: 12 Mar 2017 20:56
by bbbourq
Alias(es): Brian
Location: Los Angeles
Date of birth: 1976
Gender: Male
Occupation: Security
Interests: diachronic linguistics, etymology, conlanging
Favorite music: Death/Extreme Metal, Chill-out music (talk about paradoxical)
Political ideology: Prefer not to say
Conlangs: Lortho [loɾtʰo]
Other hobbies: calligraphy, drumming, travel
Where do you see yourself in ten years? I hope to be in a house in Malibu with my family

Re: You

Posted: 15 Mar 2017 01:14
by kinkinkijkin
Alias(es): kinkinkijkin, danwomansan
Location: Canada
Gender: intersex, present female
Occupation: permanently disabled
Interests: racing, conworlds, music
Favorite music: lots
Conlangs: Deret [deret_>]
Other hobbies: simracing, creating tracks for simracing, making and listening to music

Re: You

Posted: 16 Mar 2017 22:40
by mira
I know it was only in November last year that I posted here, but I'd say I've changed just enough to warrant an update.

Alias(es): OTheB (and variations including 0TheB and OTʜᴇB)
Location: SW England
Date of birth: 10/8/2000 (DD/MM/YYYY)
Gender: Don't believe in gender... Biological sex is Male. I have a mentally scripted 30min rant on this topic...
Occupation: Y12 Student. I do a tiny bit of freelance bass-playing.
Interests: Computer Programming/Components, Music, Bass, Maths, Obscure punctuation, and definitely not Conlanging and Linguistics⸮
Favorite music: Classical/Modern Orchestral (I like my Beethoven and my Stravinsky), Oriental Electro (Recently discovered and I can't get enough of it), Chiptune, the better side of Dubstep, FUNK!, anything musically interesting that isn't too noisy.
Political ideology: Mid-far Left Utilitarian
Religion: I'd say Atheist, but I really don't care about religions unless someone is preaching either way. I'd side with the Atheist as that's the only side with any coherent case, and the scientific method has kind of shown that no God is the case until we have more evidence. I could rant about this for hours. Generally though, if the person doesn't go on about it, I couldn't care less.
Conlangs: Inyi (didn't work very well), Project Mimal (coming along very nicely)
Other hobbies: Where do I start? Music Playing (Classical on Double Bass and Funk on Bass Guitar)/Writing (I have a go at everything), Programming, PC Building, PC Gaming,
Where do you see yourself in ten years? My aspiration is not to be tied into any job, but instead to just have the time and resources to embark on my own projects. I invent a lot of stuff, but I don't have an income or any free time so I can actually properly research and make any of them :/

Re: You

Posted: 16 Mar 2017 23:32
by loglorn
I had a few comments but each and every of them would go against No Cross No Crown

Re: You

Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:35
by KaiTheHomoSapien
I'm continuously surprised by how young many people here are. I was so used to posting on other sites where I was often the youngest member, but it's cool that so many teens are into conlanging. I guess it does start in those years (or younger) for most of us :)

Re: You

Posted: 15 Apr 2017 08:05
by shimobaatar
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Re: You

Posted: 15 Apr 2017 14:27
by qwed117
shimobaatar wrote:It looks like I last updated this near the end of December 2014, so I might as well do it again. I don't think much has changed, really, but I've added more information.

Alias(es): shimobaatar, shimo if you're nasty
shimobaatar wrote: Alias(es): shimobaatar, shimo if you're nasty
shimobaatar wrote: Alias(es): shimobaatar, shimo if you're nasty
shimobaatar wrote:SHIMO IF YOU'RE NASTY
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Bullet to my heart brutha

Re: You

Posted: 15 Apr 2017 20:36
by Egerius
shimobaatar wrote:Religion: Culturally Eastern Orthodox
^ interesting.

Re: You

Posted: 16 Apr 2017 15:23
by qwed117
Time to fix this old site storm
Spoiler:
qwed117 wrote:Alias(es): Qwed117, Qwedus117, Qwerty117.(I don't usually capitalize)
Location: NJ, USA. Yes, I live in the good part of NJ. It's actually pretty nice in the rich areas
Date of birth: June 2, 2001
Gender: Male
Occupation: Student, Pure Awesomeness (Nah that's an understatement)
Interests: The Grand Reconcilation
Favorite music:Uhhhhhhhhhh. J/K/A-Pop, some E-Pop, some Classical (Yes, I know I have poor taste in music.)
Political ideology: Liberal, like very liberal
Conlangs: Akur (I lost the USB I have the entire lang on sooooooo, I'm going to be hopelessly attempting to reconstruct the language from what I have. Even worse, I threw away the paper with almost every word on it) If my reconstruction doesn't pan out, I will be forced to completely destroy the conlang, or to restart from what shreds I have.
Other hobbies: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, (Music maybe?)
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Let's see, I will be 23. I want to go into law...Maybe....so in law school? (based on the WP article maybe the first year, 'cuz like undergrad is 4 years right?)
Alias(es): Qwed117, Qwedus117, not capitalized
Location: NJ, USA. Yes, I live in the good part of NJ, and the good part of the USA. It's actually pretty nice in the rich areas
Date of birth: June 2, 2001
Gender: Male
Occupation: Student
Interests: I don't think there's a thing I'm not interested in. I guess Linguistics and Cultural Anthropolog would be somewhere near the top
Favorite music: I can enjoy songs from virtually every genre except for the metals.
Political ideology: Nowhere near as left as everyone else here. Still too left for America tho
Conlangs: Oh jeez. I have like 17. P-Akuriga, P-Western Akuriga, P-North Akuriga, P-South Akuriga, Urusu Linua, Mysterylang, The entire Dishashta family (8 languages), Collabrom, etc.
Other hobbies: Browsing wikipedia, playing videogames. But linguistics is 90% of my time and effort. It's probably reasonable to even put down school here
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Pessimist me says either in a grave or ashes in the wind. Optimist me doesn't know, but is glad to find out.

Re: You

Posted: 16 Apr 2017 16:19
by elemtilas
qwed117 wrote:Political ideology: Nowhere near as left as everyone else here.
[:)]

It's a wonder they don't drop of the Spectrum altogether...

Re: You

Posted: 16 Apr 2017 16:27
by Lambuzhao
Apparently,

according to those Testy McTest weblinks that've trended through here, I'm center-right. [¬.¬] [>:)] [:S]

Re: You

Posted: 16 Apr 2017 16:48
by KaiTheHomoSapien
There are rich parts of New Jersey? [o.O]
Lambuzhao wrote:Apparently,

according to those Testy McTest weblinks that've trended through here, I'm center-right. [¬.¬] [>:)] [:S]
Those tests always place me left of center, though usually fairly close to the center. I prefer to think of myself as a "moderate" above all else, but if given a choice between the two, I'd choose the left. I mean, I do listen to NPR ;) Maybe there's a connection between left-wingedness and conlanging... [:S]

Re: You

Posted: 16 Apr 2017 18:07
by shimobaatar
qwed117 wrote: Bullet to my heart brutha
RIP qwed117… get well soon.
Egerius wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Religion: Culturally Eastern Orthodox
^ interesting.
Oh? How so?
elemtilas wrote:
qwed117 wrote:Political ideology: Nowhere near as left as everyone else here.
[:)]

It's a wonder they don't drop of the Spectrum altogether...
I, for one, am quite happy here on the fringe. [:P]

Re: You

Posted: 16 Apr 2017 20:03
by elemtilas
KaiTheHomoSapien wrote:There are rich parts of New Jersey? [o.O]
Lambuzhao wrote:Apparently,

according to those Testy McTest weblinks that've trended through here, I'm center-right. [¬.¬] [>:)] [:S]
Those tests always place me left of center, though usually fairly close to the center. I prefer to think of myself as a "moderate" above all else, but if given a choice between the two, I'd choose the left. I mean, I do listen to NPR ;) Maybe there's a connection between left-wingedness and conlanging... [:S]
Possibly a string of coincidences. I listen to NPR as well (admittedly rather begrudgingly because they thieved away our classical music station and now force us to listen to whatever it is passes for an NPR talk show every evening --- though I do find it interesting and enlightening how obasmic they were six and eight years ago when our Previous Imperious Leader was shoving his agenda through, and now that it's here, they're all woe is lamentatiously us that said agenda got pushed through. And now, it is equally entertaining and enlightening to hear how they never seem to understand how it is the Current Imperious Leader is shoving his agenda through, and it's not like he didn't say that's exactly what he was going to do! But I digress.) but am neither one way nor the other on matters political. People have assumed and have tried to guess in the past, but they've never gotten it right. Whatever the issue is, just do what is right, just and loving. That always wins, though rarely makes everyone happy (and that's how you can tell the position is a winner!) and it doesn't matter what senseless party you belong to.

Coincidence, I think at least in part because, and this is my perception which could be wrong, most conlangers in forums of this sort are younger in age and therefore tend to lean leftwards more than rightwards. (If for no other reason than that this is how they're inculcated at school.) Also, demographically, more of our membership tends to also align with key left-leaning issues (gender politics, mental politics, etc.) and may therefore be more vocal (and strenuous) about their political attitudes.

Re: You

Posted: 18 Apr 2017 03:51
by qwed117
Spoiler:
elemtilas wrote:
KaiTheHomoSapien wrote:There are rich parts of New Jersey? [o.O]
Lambuzhao wrote:Apparently,

according to those Testy McTest weblinks that've trended through here, I'm center-right. [¬.¬] [>:)] [:S]
Those tests always place me left of center, though usually fairly close to the center. I prefer to think of myself as a "moderate" above all else, but if given a choice between the two, I'd choose the left. I mean, I do listen to NPR ;) Maybe there's a connection between left-wingedness and conlanging... [:S]
Possibly a string of coincidences. I listen to NPR as well (admittedly rather begrudgingly because they thieved away our classical music station and now force us to listen to whatever it is passes for an NPR talk show every evening --- though I do find it interesting and enlightening how obasmic they were six and eight years ago when our Previous Imperious Leader was shoving his agenda through, and now that it's here, they're all woe is lamentatiously us that said agenda got pushed through. And now, it is equally entertaining and enlightening to hear how they never seem to understand how it is the Current Imperious Leader is shoving his agenda through, and it's not like he didn't say that's exactly what he was going to do! But I digress.) but am neither one way nor the other on matters political. People have assumed and have tried to guess in the past, but they've never gotten it right. Whatever the issue is, just do what is right, just and loving. That always wins, though rarely makes everyone happy (and that's how you can tell the position is a winner!) and it doesn't matter what senseless party you belong to.

Coincidence, I think at least in part because, and this is my perception which could be wrong, most conlangers in forums of this sort are younger in age and therefore tend to lean leftwards more than rightwards. (If for no other reason than that this is how they're inculcated at school.) Also, demographically, more of our membership tends to also align with key left-leaning issues (gender politics, mental politics, etc.) and may therefore be more vocal (and strenuous) about their political attitudes.
One could possibly consider my general political beliefs as aligning roughly with the left, but I'm just not a part of it. I personally wouldn't have voted Bernie Sanders, for what it's worth, if he won the primary, but I was a strong Clinton supporter. I'm relatively hawkish, in comparison to both parties, trade protectionist, supporting of a subsidy state, etc.
Edit: Here's a political map of me.
https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 1.5&s=69.8

Re: You

Posted: 23 Apr 2017 01:44
by Man in Space
Alias(es): Pogostick Man, readthisresistor, Man in Space
Location: Ohio
Date of birth: October 18
Gender: Male
Occupation: AML compliance analyst
Interests: Music, Star Trek, dogs
Favorite music: The Police
Political ideology: I'm on the right
Conlangs: Too many to list, here's a sampling: Classical Ngade n Tim Ar, the Caber languages, Kgáweq', Proto-Dujajikiswə, Çuvvaccoçim, Sisok Tlar Kyanà
Other hobbies: I'm in a heavy metal band
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Depressed, bored, and alone

Re: You

Posted: 24 Apr 2017 14:47
by Adarain
Haven’t updated this here since I joined. Time for a new post I’d say

Alias(es): Sascha
Location: Switzerland
Date of birth: Aug 1996
Gender: Male
Occupation: Till end of June: Civil Service as a Nursing Assistant; starting my Bachelor in Physics after
Interests: Ling, Math, Physics, Programming, Piano
Favorite music: I… don’t listen to music enough to give a good answer. But I really love Christopher Tin’s works.
Political ideology: Left and Liberal
Conlangs: Mesak, Naksult’ and Us’a Pa Kas (all naturalistic a priori), speedlanging projects, some in the freezer, Viossa and Lxelxe (“collab pidgins”)
Other hobbies: See interests
Where do you see yourself in ten years? I… have no fucking clue. If I stick with physics, maybe teaching or doing research. If I don’t… who knows. Somewhere in the Amazon, probably. Or Greenland.

Re: You

Posted: 04 May 2017 10:50
by Angen
Aliases: Angen or Allison
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date of birth: August 1998
Gender: female
Occupation: none
Interests: books, grammar, writing, mental disabilities, making up imaginary worlds
Favorite music: pop, folk, country, alternative, classic rock
Political ideology: left
Conlangs: have one called Zespatr, but am more of a conworlder than a conlanger
Other hobbies: writing, going for walks
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Hopefully having a job and being more independent.