Anybody Out There

[Pat Gooley <gooley@TMIC.TIT.AC.KR>]

        I subscribed to this list because I am fascinated by languages.  I
know nothing about Lojban, but I am moderately educable.
        Shortly after subscribing, I got a message asking "Is this List
Dead?"  I don't know -- is it?
        Any Lojbanis out there who care to respond, please consider my
posiiton and that of the person who queried me.  On the other hand, if
everyone else is gone, Nina, I guess we can create a new Lojban according to
any mutually acceptable rules we devise.  Think of the opportunities in
this!  Tolkein created dwarvish and elvish out of his expertise in ancient
English forms; what might we do?  The world is our oyster; if the rules of
Lojban have fallen on hard days, we'll just create our own.
        Assuming anyone reads this, let me introduce myself.  I'm married to
my high school sweetheart (21 years this week),  who is in Virginia running
our horse farm (Arabs and Morgans).    I currently teach Conversational
English at a university in Korea.  I have studied, to various degrees (sort
of best to worst) Russian, Arabic, Latin, Spanish, French, German, Korean,
Japanese, and Esperanto.  I also have a mean Double Dutch.  My local
roommate has been known to call me a cunning linguist.  I'm a retired U.S.
Navy officer, and slightly to the right of Genghis Khan  politically.   I
also have a pretty fair command of technical subjects, including
thermodynamics, physics, optics, ballistics, probability,  and radar
transmission/signal theory, which really makes me a strange duck.  Add to
that, I have a more than passing interest in D&D, including some PC high
level illusionists, druids, and rangers, and you know I'm trouble!
        Seriously, I do enjoy learning about languages, even if I speak none
but English well.  If anyone out there is even considering being on speaking
terms, let me know.  I'm really a fairly nice guy.
TANSTAAFL       Pat Gooley              Tongmyong University of Information Technology
                051-629-7204(W)  051-625-6267(H)        Pusan, Korea    Gooley@tmic.tit.ac.kr