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

Try this:

    http://www.frontiernet.net/~awen/stavewrit.html

For me, it's better in Netscape.

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 12:28 PM
  Subject: 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