Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:

> 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.
>
> Nice! Which Elizabeth? The first, I suppose.
>
> > Do other people construct languages in their sleep?
>
> No, I just dream in Latin :-) I wish I'd dream in Valdyan! I do have
> dreams set in Valdyas, or dreams in which I see the world I usually
> live in through Valdyan eyes, but the language spoken is usually
> either explicitly Dutch or English (I'm quite bilingual even in my
> dreams) or some generic language that doesn't present itself as
> anything in particular.
I sometimes dream in Spanish, but never for very long.  For some reason,
it's one of those dreams where it's an emergency.  Someonbe's in danger,
or I have to go to the bathroom, and I'm trying to tell people but my
American accent is so thick no one can understand me.

Interesting that the people use the -ita ending for the queen's name.

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