Re: CHAT: The centre of the temporal universe, was Translation relay

Sally Caves wrote, in reply to Andrew Smith:

>> The Teonim are definately on my list of places to visit on a Grand Tour of
>> Conlangea.  I am sure that their national library contains wide and
>> eclectic sections on the languages and customs of such places as Cambria,
>> the Hankerim republics, Livagia, Boreanesia, Nowapan, and the Rihannsu.
>
>I'd like to visit, too!
>I think they also visit the Tokana.  So where is Matt these days?? <G>
>I hope having a fabulous vacation.
I'm still here, but largely in lurk mode.  No fabulous vacations for me,
I'm afraid.  I just finished teaching a very time-consuming course,
and now I have to gear up to start teaching another course in a week.
Then in the fall I'm teaching two more courses at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison.  All this while trying to finish my dissertation
and helping my partner get the condo ready for selling (right now I'm
stuck away in a back bedroom, surrounded by piles of furniture, while
the living room and dining room are being painted).  The way things
are looking, I won't be able to take a vacation until Christmas, which
means an *entire year* of uninterrupted stress.  Huzzah!

Re. the Teonim visiting the Tokana: They must have the ability to
travel to various alternate universes, then.  The Tokana occupy a
parallel timeline which diverged from our own approximately 13,500 years
ago, and which (as far as I know) does not contain anyone else's
concultural creations.

The Teonim must have a hard time finding the Tokana, since I still
haven't managed to nail down exactly where they live.  I keep going
back and forth between Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands,
and the north shore of the mouth of the Columbia River (i.e. the
southwestern tip of Washington State).  I'm also vacillating between
whether they'll be a hunter-gatherer people or a small-scale agricultural
people (or both).  Conculturally, the Tokana are sort of in limbo right
now, I guess...

Matt.

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Matt Pearson
mpearson@ucla.edu
UCLA Linguistics Department
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
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