Re: David Peterson, CSANA, and Made to Order Conlangs

I sent it April 9, 2003.
Unfortunately, the link to the stave writing doesn't seem to be working
for me.
Btw, do you know/remember if anything was ever decided about the NY
ConlangCon?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "O gatekeeper, open thy gate, / Open thy gate that I may enter! / If
thou openest not the gate, so that I cannot enter, / I will smash the
door, I will shatter the bolt, / I will smash the doorpost, I wil move
the doors, / I will raise up the dead, eating the living, / So that the
dead will outnumber the living."
     ~ ishtar, ancient mesopotamian goddess


On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:43:47 -0400 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
writes:
Good lord!  I must have been sleeping in nomail (which sounds like an
absence of armor).  When did you post that, Steg? <G>  It's wonderfully
funny!  Teoh seems to be involved in it.  As you KNOW, I did reference
Teoh in my essay I presented at Berkeley.  The walk from Berkeley back to
Rochester is indeed long, and I came home dejected--from splendid
childhood memories, from lush graduate school days, from a state full of
flowers in March, and mountains and vertical cities and oceans, from a
campus that is like a city and a park with hills and hollows and rushing
streams and hidden forests--to a bleak ice storm in Rochester.  Yes, the
commute is long.  How premonitory of you!
Wedge-shaped diacritical marks?  Heh heh... I've been toying with
alternative writing systems for Teonaht.  One of them is stave-writ: some
Teonim write their poetry on musical staves, indicating an aberrant
emphasis by a dip down to a lower "key."  I've got a poor sample of it
at:

    http://www.frontiernet.net/~awen/stavewrit.html
Hey!  David!  Answer my post! :)
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

----- Original Message -----
From: Steg Belsky
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: David Peterson, CSANA, and Made to Order Conlangs


Talking about meeting people (specifically you, Sally) ;-) ....
I'm pretty sure you were nomail when i originally sent this message to
the list:

~~~~~~~~~~
So i had a very weird dream last night.
For some reason, i was taking a class at the local community college (a
few of my friends who go to the same university as me do that because
certain classes are easier or have better teachers there).  It was an
English class, and the professor was Sally Caves!  She wrote stuff on the
blackboard and gave some kind of introduction to the class (it was the
first day), and wrote out our homework assignment on the blackboard.  It
seemed to involve reading mostly essays, but one of them was by her and
she said specifically to pay attention to the "Teoh" references.  And i
have no idea why my dream was calling Teonaht "Teoh", but i could tell
which of the words on the blackboard were Teonaht because they were
surrounded by decorative wedge-shaped diacritics.  So of course i started
planning how i would go up to her after class and introduce myself, but
then the dream's scene shifted and i was somewhere walking along the
southern bank of the Susquehanna river, westwards, and i was thinking
"this makes no sense... i can't walk to Rochester!" and then i
'remembered' that the class was given at some kind of extension of the
community college campus (which is actually in a different direction),
near me, and not all the way in Rochester, and then i thought "wow, how
does Sally do such a long commute?"  so then i kept walking towards where
the class is, but then the dream ended.
~~~~~~~~~~


-Stephen (Steg)
 "sleep is one-sixtieth of death."
     ~ the talmud

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