Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, M.S. Soderquist wrote:

>I had a dream last night that included some really strange hybrid of
>Spanish and English that was spoken in a lush island paradise ruled over
>by a queen named Lisabehtita, who looked suspiciously like a young Queen
>Elizabeth. It's got me feeling all creative today. The spoken language
>sounded a bit like Brazilian Portuguese to me, actually.
>
>Do other people construct languages in their sleep? I am sure this has
>been addressed before, but it was just so vivid in my mind, and I caught
>myself breaking it down in my dream-- "Oh, that's like English,
>that's like Spanish".
Couple of days ago, I deamt that this fellow kept asking me if I
wanted cigarettes in Brithenig. I've also dreamt in Spanish and
in other languages (quite familliar to me while dreaming, but
otherwise unknown to me). There's also what I call the "dream
langauge" which is a kind of Welsh-Irish hybrid that I've had
several dreams in and have retained enough to write it all down
when I waken. A month or so ago, I dreamt that this girl in a
class at school showed me her notebooks filled with neat and
meticulous notes on various of her conlang. I don't remember
anything in particular about the language except that it was
quite complex with all sorts of paradigms and notes on exceptional
forms, and many forms had strange titles like "obsolescent" and
"secondary objective".

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>I thought it was interesting that the queen's name was closer to
>"Elizabeth" than "Isabel". I only saw it in print under her portrait, so
>I don't know what that "h" is doing in there in the name-- whether there
>is the th ('thorn') sound (spelled 'ht'), if it is silent, or if it does
>something to the "e" right before it.
You been studying Teonaht? :)

>
>I am thinking about doing something conculturish with this island
>nation, and creating the language as I go along. :)
Well, you've got a good name to start with!

Padraic.

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>M.S. Soderquist
>ma buda luna-li-aneala...ma dita luna!
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