Re: conlanging during class (Re: Grammatical Summary of Kemata)

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From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:23 PM
Subject: conlanging during class (Re: Grammatical Summary of Kemata)


> On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 11:25 , David Starner wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0100, Rune Haugseng wrote:
> [yhl]
> >>> (Of course, sometimes long dry lectures provide a perfect opportunity
to
> >>> surreptitiously work on a conlang.)
> >>
> >> Really? I'm far too afraid someone'll notice what I'm doing to do
> >> stuff like that in class.
> >
> > Between the large classes and the teachers who teach to the board,
> > college gives plenty of oppertunity to conlang in class. Of course, I
> > never had a problem doing stuff like that in high school, either, so
> > . . .
>
> <nod>  It really depends on the "withitness" of the teacher.  Frankly, in
> a majority of even high school classes, the teacher will check to see that
> your pencil/pen is moving at appropriate moments and that you're looking
> up at the board or him/her, or at least not looking somewhere "irrelevant.
> "  Of course, I'm anal so when I teach, I go around and look at *what* the
> students are writing.  (Fortunately for those who like to write notes in
> pink gel-pen I just ask them to put the notes away and get to work...<G>)
>
> In any case, I've gotten away with murder in classes: doodling conscripts
> or puzzling out vocabulary items, sketches of dragons and pegasi, working
> on fantasy novels...the works.
>
> On the plus side, sometimes something going on in class triggers
> conlang-productivity.  Or other kinds of productivity.  If not necessarily
> the kind of productivity they're looking for.  <rueful g>
>
> Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
> http://pegasus.cityofveils.com
>
> We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
> will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to
> the Internet, we know this is not true.--Robert Wilensk

I conlang all the time!  In class, out of it, everywhere, in my head at
least.