Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

Peter Morwood & Diane Duane wrote:

>
> >BTW, if you are *the* Diane Duane, Romulan is an impressive conlang!
>
> :)  I don't know about "the", but I'm the one who writes.  And thanks for
> the nice words.
You mean the author of _Spock's World_ and _The Book of Night With Moon_
is amongst us??  TRALTAN! (welcome!)  You touch on two favorites of
mine,
Diane:  cats and Star Trek!  Yry nwetis heljent! ("as for me all
delighted")

> It won't be lost on people here who know my Trek work that the Rihannsu
> (non-canonical Romulan) language is not only a constructed one on this
> layer, the here-and-now, but a constructed one on the next layer down as
> well, since I feign (as Lewis would have said) that the Romulans started
> building their own new language on deciding to part company, way-back-when,
> from the Vulcans.  (And yes, this idea did hit me after running into Pravic
> in LeGuin's "The Dispossessed".)  This produces its own difficulties.
> Potentially at least the language is diachronic, since the Romulans-to-be
> built it from Old High Vulcan roots aged "in a different direction" from
> the originals.  All I have to do now is work out what those roots
> "were"...and then age them differently... :)  Argh.  And then add
> apropriate syntax, grammar, etc...while also writing 140,000 words of the
> next two books...over the next two months.
Well, I thought I was busy and pressed for time.  Would you like to join
our Relay Translation? <GGGG> ;-)  Just kidding... this should be
wrapping
up shortly.

> Eeeeeeeeeehhh.  (sound of author producing a very subdued scream)
I thought not... but surely next time round!

  It'll
> all work out.  It's just right now that it looks impossible.  But I shall
> sit and listen and soak everything up, and the details will start to work
> themselves out.
We're glad to hear from you!
Sally
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves