Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, [Peter Morwood &] Diane Duane wrote:

(this appears to have been only Diane unless they're _ne jappa eddas
ysamas_)

> People started writing to Gene Roddenberry and saying "We like Diane
> Duane's Romulans better than yours..."
Well, I *do* like your Romulans better than his. I *always* like
enemies with a culture better than vanilla enemies. I also like the
Klingons of _The Final Reflection_ better than canonical Klingons.

> I now have other questions to deal with, such as:  is it smart for a people
> and a language to have the same name?
Probably not smart, but usual; cf. "English", "Dutch", "Spanish",
"Valdyan".

> Why the heck didn't I construct even
> a rudimentary grammar for this pile of words when I was working on
> ENEMY/ALLY?
Ah, *that* is a good question :-)

Seriously, when your stories don't have reason to make finish-me
noises any more and your cats shut up for a bit (saw them on your web
page, they're magnificent) we'd all like to see it. The language sure
looks like there's a grammar, however rudimentary, in your head;
probably when you start writing it down it'll fall into place all by
itself (most of Valdyan did).

    Irina


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