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Hello. This is the first message I am sending to this list, although I have been reading yours for a little time now. (Now that summer is coming I hope to have more time to write more messages to the mailing lists I am subscribed to.) The purpose of this message is to let you know a little about me before I start participating at this list. I am an eighteen-year-old (born in 1982) Spanish boy living in a city called Valladolid. My name is "Rodrigo" (it is "Roderick" in English, "Rodericus" in Latin, I think it is "Rodrigue" in French, etc., etc.). I just love anything concerning language(s), and that makes me read about different languages and so I have many ideas of different languages (and I'm able to understand those similar to Spanish -- Italian, Galician, Portuguese, ....) but I am not able to speak so many ones... I hope to study Classical Philology at University next year. My grandfather was an Esperantist. This way, I knew about that language some years ago (I think I was about 12 or 13 years old when I first heard about Esperanto). I liked it so much that, when we were told at school to do some research (you call it a paper in English, don't you? we call it "trabajo" (=work) in Spanish) on whatever subject we wanted, I chose Esperanto. We had to write about it and speek to the class. As far as I can remember, most people were given back what they had done and only some people (including me), who were considered to have done really good things :-), didn't receive it (it remained at school). A little time ago, I started using the Internet. One day I was reading the messages at babylon.com forums and found one with a subject like "The Universal Language", "International Auxiliary Languages" or something similar. I think I had read something about constructed other than Esperanto somewhere, but I knew only that conlang. I can't remember what I wrote there, but I think it was something about Esperanto and I think I also wrote I had heard something about a simplified Latin, and things like that. Some days later I received an e-mail from Ingvar Stenström (thank you very much, Ingvar, if you are at this list) telling me about Interlingua. I started then browsing some web pages on Interlingua, until I finally subscribed to the INTERLNG mailing list. Some time later I started hearing about other conlangs (Occidental, Glosa, Lojban, Speedwords, Latino sine Flexione,...). I've printed a lot of pages on conlangs (to read them later). I am now subscribed to several mailing lists about/in those conlangs: INTERLNG, interlingua-coollist, romanica (@[log in to unmask]) and the other lists on ILR, 2 lists about/in occidental (interlingue e occidental), langmaker, [log in to unmask], uusisuom_language (yahoogroups.com), interlingua-espaniol (not a lot of messages for the moment :-) ), and bablo (what's the matter with it? I've received no message from it since I subscribed). I just want to say that, as you can see, I'm truly interested in more than just one conlang. I respect all languages and linguistic projects and I just can't say I think one of them is objectively the best auxiliary language. In spite of that, I think Interlingua is the most international and easily understandable conlang I have seen until now. That doesn't mean I think Interlingua is perfect, but that, in my opinion (or at least for now), it is the easiest and most international linguistic system of those that I know. But I don't believe in the objective and absolute easiness (or internationality or whatever) of any language (be it "artificial"/"constructed" or "natural", although I think all languages are actually artificial, aren't they?). So don't think of me as a fanatic of any certain language, please. (I don't think it's so different from racism or religious fanaticism) Well, that's all for now. Rodrigo/Rodericus/Roderick/Rodrigue/Roderiko/Roderic/... ______________________________ [log in to unmask] (MSN Messenger) http://www.rodriweb.com http://dmoz.org/World/Lingua_Latina/Referentes ICQ: 106542636 Bravenet Messenger: 3873986 ______________________________ ______________________________