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[Keenir]

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[b]Alias(es):[/b]   Rodlox, Keenir.
[b]Location:[/b]   USA.
[b]Date of birth:[/b]   roughly as old as Iran.
[b]Gender:[/b]   Male.
[b]Occupation:[/b]   Learning.
[b]Interests:[/b]   Biology, history, paleontology, astronomy.
[b]Favorite music:[/b]   Sertab Erener, Gordon Lightfoot.
[b]Political ideology:[/b]   Trying to keep out of the fray.
[b]Conlangs:[/b]   Arasamean (currently),  2nd Unnamed (under contemplation)
[b]Other hobbies:[/b]   Reading, watching educational tv.
[b]Where do you see yourself in ten years?[/b] 

a member in good standing here and on the ZBB and five years away from winning a Smiley.

[Lambuzhao]

Alias(es): Joseph's Dad, Catmon, Don Cristobal
Location: Keystone State, City of Brotherly Love
Date of birth: Extremely early Seventies
Gender: male hetero
Occupation: Language Teacher/Lecturer
Interests: Older Languages: Latin (& Oscan, Umbrian), Greek (& dialects from Mycenaean to Tsakonian and Griko), Old Icelandic, Gothic, Old English, Coptic, Hieroglyphic Egyptian; Modern langs like Spanish, French, Italian, Ukrainian, Nihongo; Some PA Deitsch, German, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Portuguese, a teenie bit Kechwa, Tzotzil Maya, Chinese and Korean; Contact Langs - Palenquero, Portunhol, Moya på Tvoya, Mirandés

Favorite music: Choral music, Oratorio, some opera, Classic Rock, some Jazz (esp. Weather Report, Shakatak), Cumbia & Vallenato & Pasillo, salsa dura y antigua, rockers who have in excelsis voices, like Steve Perry, Jon Anderson, some Geddy Lee, CSN. I listen to Minneapolis Sound Funk, Billy Preston, and I like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, some MArilyn Manson, Metallica, Ronnie James Dio. I've been around a while, and I've heard a lot of stuff. I will listen to most anything at least once.
Political ideology: I studied politics for 6 years in college/post-bac. Short answer - I do not discuss soccer, religion or politics. Long answer - Read my senior thesis.
Conlangs: Sûdrasâl & Vikjr (Germanic zonelangs), Çetaran (romlang), the Klæ-Ungan family: Rozwi, Kwijin, Yaochüan, Oshche, Hwa, Mapada, Rang Nui, Brooccan, Banxi~Sudeir (Rozwi, Kwijin, Yaochüan, Oshche, Hwa are the most worked out with their own conscript); other peoples' Greek-based conlangs, Anglish/Andersaxon, lesser-known conlangs like Carpophorophilus (1732), NiuTutonish (Elias Molée), and especially conlangs with their own conscripts like Tarvine\Martien (Hélène Smith), tlhInganHol, Formosan (Psalamanazar), even Pakuni (Yes, I'm that old!)

Other hobbies: Cooking, Gardening, Gymnosperms & Cryptograms, Singing (sung lead in now-defunct prog-rock band The World's End), Travelling (not enough, though!), making Pokémons & stories with my son, Crawdadding in the local cricks with The Son, going to the Shore with The Son, hiking with The Son, Reading, writing stories, composing lyrics and poems and grooks and suchlike. ¡Mis chivas de Guadalajara y Alianza Lima! I'm a Star Wars nut, I love old Japanese cartoons: Speed Racer, Star Blazers, G-Force. Pecadillos: Dinosaurs, Ren & Stimpy, Fungus the Bogeyman, Blackadder, Samurai Jack, Ultraman, baklava, Slovak nut roll, ceviche, single-malt scotch. The list goeth on...


Where do you see yourself in ten years? Tenured University Lecturer w/ Doctorate. Remarried At least one of my stories is published and maybe turned into a movie or tv series

Religion Short answer - I do not discuss soccer, religion or politics. Long answer - big hint on Today Show, NBC Monday April 1 1985

[Lambuzhao]

Where do you see yourself in ten years? My thirties .

I just have to say this made me crack up.
That made my day.
I'm fortyish so...No tears, no tears.
It'll be okay.


BTW
U R a funny bloke!

[Lambuzhao]

I describe myself as a person who wants to do everything, and can't advance in anything.

Well that's definately familiar ground. :p

Ya yek eika!
[so be-3SG it-NOM]
Amen!

[Lambuzhao]

Alias(es): Etherman, Count Iblis, Pissed Fechtmeister

What is thy bidding, my Count?

Shall we seek out the Galactica or the Pegasus?

Love it

[Lambuzhao]

Maybe I'm just talking out my ass.

Are you going to develop a conlang based on that?
Is anyone?
What would be the phoneme inventory?
How about phonotactics, sandhi, and allophony?
("sandhi" sounds quite uncomfortable in such a lanaguage.)

Especially in an elevator.

Gives a whole new meaning to "affrication".


BEST - EVER

[Ceresz]

Lambuzhao, have you considered using the edit button instead of making 5 posts in a row?

[CrazyEttin]

Lambuzhao, have you considered using the edit button instead of making 5 posts in a row?

[kiwikami]

Alias(es): Tobias, Sam, various online pseudonyms typically involving eggs.
Location: Illinois, at the moment.
Date of birth: A couple of decades and change ago, in mid-November.
Occupation: Graduate student.
Interests: Linguistics (morphology and phonology - most recently, also sign language prosody), psychology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Also in possession of far too much useless knowledge about the Voyager Golden Records and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, for whatever reason.
Favorite music: Mostly folk and folk rock, "steampunk music" for all that you can call it a coherent genre, dark cabaret, show tunes, and trailer/epic music.
Political ideology: Left-leaning in many - possibly most - respects.
Conlangs: Numerous. Most recently, Alál (currently in its fourth year of existence, I do believe) and Ngäliv Ëra.
Other hobbies: Scuba diving, sailing, robotics, programming (predominantly in Python and Inform 7), longsword dance, traditional animation, video editing, reading cheesy science fiction, etc.
Religion: I could be called an agnostic deist.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Going on adventures somewhere, with a published book and a cat [2018 update: have successfully obtained a cat]. Having a "Dr." in front of my name. Getting myself involved in first contact somehow.

[Updated for 2018.]

[C.J.]

Alias(es): C.J., Hrothgar, Hroþgarð (hmm where did I get those?), Jesus
Location: Port Orchard, Washington, United States
Date of birth: May 6, 1995
Gender: Male
Occupation: Team Member at Pizza Hut
Interests: Playing guitar, reading, conlanging, and certain 'extracurricular activites'
Favorite music: Blues; Rock n Roll (1950-70); Rock (1970-, minus most 80's rock. Ick.); more specific kinds like punk rock, alternative, etc.; Metal (1970-, but not the more extreme stuff. I can tolerate screeching/growling if used in moderation or if the music is good enough to help tune it out. NO BLAST BEATS.); Grunge; and some Rap.

Political ideology: Liberal/Democrat/Left Wing, but more conservative than most who would use that label
Conlangs: I Ichi, and several other long-dead attempts. I narrowed my conlanging focus to developing just ONE lang to make it as close to perfect as I can.

Other hobbies: I'm pretty boring. I only have like a couple hobbies.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Working at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and enjoying my big comfy paycheck.
Religion: Monotheist. I can't really say Christian because I don't really follow Christian beliefs and tenets. I'm closer to Jewish, but no one in my nuclear family is Jewish, plus I don't really follow their beliefs or tenets either. I believe in God, and that he created everything, and I suppose most of the morality of the Bible, of which I haven't read but a couple of books. However, there isn't a single story that I've read or heard of from the Bible which I take literally.

My beliefs do not conflict with science, though. I believe science discovers and quantifies the rules/patterns that God made and thus is every bit as true as my beliefs.

[Batrachus]

I should have done this a long time ago.

Alias(es): Batrachus
Location: Pilsen, Czech republic
Date of birth: 29. February 1996
Gender: ♂
Occupation: Nothing.
Interests: Linguistics, IT
Favorite music: Specific pieces, mostly classical, Beatles etc.
Political ideology: left-wing, liberal, anti-traditionalist, anti-socialist
Conlangs: Speedlang
Other hobbies:
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
I want to make something of great significance (which teenager does not want to? )

[Click]

Wait a little. You are 4 months and 3 days old?

[Batrachus]

Oooops. Fixed.

[smrk]

Favorite music:I actually don't listen to music.BTW,I hate turbofolk.

I was on a bus ride once for 10 hours with the bus drivers playing turbofolk the whole time. lt was a highly unpleasant experience.

[Andlat]

Alias(es): Andlat, Matt
Location: Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Date of birth: 30 May 2012
Gender: Male
Occupation: Crew member, McDonalds
Interests: archaeology, cultural and physical anthropology
Favorite music: A lot of techno, crappy pop music
Political ideology: registered democrat in the US, leaning toward a bit of socialism
Conlangs: Kwépta, Fuini, Tleen Ywxaataank, Sharâ, and a bunch that are on hiatus.
Other hobbies: Magic: the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, writing, stuff like that
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Hopefully, an archaeology professor and married.

[MrKrov]

Consider me incredulous you're less than two months old.

[hubris_incalculable]

Alias(es): Nathan, Turelion
Location: Abbotsford, B.C. Canada
Date of birth: May 13, 1992
Gender: Male
Occupation: None at this time
Interests: Linguistics, Dwarf Fortress
Favorite music: Folk/pagan Metal
Political ideology: Libertarian, vote Canadian Conservative
Conlangs: Sokraen (defunct and discarded), Hamalon, Shkuloik, New and Unnamed
Other hobbies: ... none?
Where do you see yourself in ten years? I really don't know.

[Shanhoia]

Alias: I used to be lryda mbazha, on the old CWB. Maybe five years ago. That meant 'dark flame' in my conlang of the time. Shanhoia means 'golden flame', in a current naming lang.

Location: California
Date of birth: June 1990
Gender: Female
Occupation: Idle/confused recent college grad

Hobbies: Mostly a conworlder, not a conlanger. I spend a lot of time making up elaborate stories, settings, and characters that rarely get written down beyond scattered notes.

Interests: Ling (though I majored in it and am kind of sick of it), anthro, gender, psych, art.

Political ideology: Democrat, although I never maintain interest in reality thoroughly enough to be a well-informed citizen.

Conlangs: A handful of naming langs: Yengdo, Hluc, Kuuzva, 'Fig' (actually the name of the setting), Ohebant, Tarakhu. All of these are just sketches to generate place and character names.

Where do you see yourself in ten years? As a Marriage and Family Therapist burdened with grad school debt.

[Torco]

Alias(es): Torco, AwesomeEyebrowGuy
Location: Where the South America and Nazca plates meet, near the Aconcagua mount... fuck it, Chile
Date of birth: july 1986
Gender: male
Occupation: sociologist, nominally... I'm currently doing IT
Interests: philosophy, history, anthropology, linguistics, literature. also videogames, sex positiveness, politics... i could go on
Favorite music: rock, classical, metal, nueva trova, nueva cancion latinoamericana...
Political ideology: I guess i'm sort of a social democrat? I wouldn't mind a revolution, if you can convince me of the viability of your project, and have definite nostalgia for the socialism. I'm definitely a secularist, and I dislike capitalism, even though it looks like it'll be a while before its time is past.
Conlangs: Ieseleu, Riyoro[in development], Sanga[having the dubious honor of being the first speedlang], Kor[in development], and a bunch of other scraplangs
Other hobbies: boxing, biking, running, weightlifting, shooting guns... but also painting, writing, and watching youtube videos. I sound quite burly, don't I? I'm not, I'm squishy and easy going.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? I don't. the idea had always been to start making money and go live on my own... now that that's happened, well... I dunno.

[Testyal]

I'm going to do this again because I feel like it.

Alias(es): Agatha Christie
Location: Lincolnshire, England
Date of birth: 20/10/1996
Gender: Penis-wielder
Occupation: GCSE student
Interests: Language, Japan, Politics, Touhou
Favorite music: Video game BGMs, chiptunes, electro, trance - All of which MUST be without lyrics.
Political ideology: Exactly, on the dot centre.
Conlangs: None. Except for a ton of part-phonologies.
Other hobbies: Touhou, Disgaea, Youtube, Anime.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Either working for CERN or a translation firm in a foreign country, possibly Japan or one of the Nordic states.