From tpeterpark@erols.com Mon Jul 31 14:41:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8484 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2000 21:41:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jul 2000 21:41:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net) (207.172.4.60) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2000 21:41:08 -0000 Received: from 209-122-223-57.s57.tnt3.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.223.57] helo=umktgghc) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13JNJ4-000722-00; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:41:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3985F201.2963@erols.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:39:13 -0400 Reply-To: tpeterpark@erols.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-DH397 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Cc: cbrooks@pilot.infi.net, lojbab@lojban.org Subject: coi lobypli! i mi du la tipitr park.--Introducing myself References: <3981B2AC.5F16@erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "T. Peter Park" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3769 coi lobypli! i mi du la tipitr park. (=T. Peter Park) I just joined lojban@egroups.com today, and thought I'd introduce yourself to you all. I'm an Estonian-born American, and still fluent native speaker of Estonian, who has been involved and interested in Lojban on and off since 1989. I had been rather inactive for several years, but was stimulated to check out your list after a call last Wednesday night (July 26) from la lojbab. I was born in Tallinn in 1941. My parents and I fled from Estonia to Sweden in 1944 during World War II, and then to the United States in 1948. I became a U.S. citizen in 1957. For most of my life after 1948, I have lived on Long Island near New York, except for the years 1963-1972 when I was a student in the Universities of Virginia and Maryland. I am now living in Garden City on Long Island, about 45 minutes by train from central downtown New York City. I have a Ph.D. in European History from the University of Virginia (1970) and a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Maryland (1972). I retired exactly 3 years ago, in July 1997, from the Lynbrook Public Library in Lynbrook, Long Island, where I had been a Reference Librarian since 1974. Since my retirement from the Lynbrook Library, I have been trying to start a new career as a writer and independent private researcher. I can speak, read, or write English, Estonian (native speaker), French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a little Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Esperanto, Loglan, and Lojban. My principal reading and research interests include history, linguistics, philosophy, theology, sociology, and strange phenomena (UFO's, extra-sensory perception, ghosts, poltergeists, "Bigfoot," other mystery primates, lake monsters, crop circles, alleged religious miracles, etc.) I have published a few articles on some of these interests in historical journals and in a journal devoted to strange phenomena called THE ANOMALIST. Last April, I delivered a paper on the 19th century Scottish historian, biographer, essayist, and social critic Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) at an international Carlyle conference at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. I have also been working on and off this past year or so on the MS of a science-fiction novel, THE LINCOLN SYMBIOSIS, about a race of not-quite-human humanoids living incognito amongst *Homo sapiens*. In linguistics, I am particularly interested in the origin of language, the prehistory and remote relationships of languages, the possibility of all languages being ultimately related, the Sapir-Whorf Hypthesis, and in constructed languages like Esperanto. Loglan, and Lojban. I was first introduced to Loglan by reading an article, "Loglan," by James Cook Brown in the June 1960 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. I first heard of Lojban in the Spring of 1989, when I saw an advertisement for it in DISCOVER magazine. I answered the advertisement, and got some basic introductory Lojban from la lojbab. and his "Logical Language Group" organization (la lojbangirz.) I was rather intensely involved in Lojban for a while, in 1989-1990, but then became inactive as other activities, interests, tasks, responsibilities, and personal involvements took up more of my time and attention. I have recently thought of perhaps starting to become a little bit more active again in Lojban. Hearing last week from la lojbab. certainly helped stimulate my interest in increased Lojban activity! I really look forward to hearing from you all on this list! With my best regards to you all, T. Peter Park ("la tipitr park.") Garden City South, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.