Re: The 2007 Smiley Award Winner: Teonaht

What a touching text... specially towards the end of it, about phases. And
so true! I kind of envy your... easy going... English. I read somewhere in
your page about the Odyssey, and that "I mean, poor doggy!" about Odysseus'
poor doggy ; ) probably will never leave my memory.

BTW, for not letting this message to be totally off-topic: My conlang,
Ausónya Bháma, is my linguistic credo, and I shape it as the easiest way
(for me) to think about something. It will be very hard for me creating any
other language, as this one already got all my effort. In this respect is
easier for me to understand Sally Caves' fidelity than those creating dozens
of new languages. Once I decided that gold, for instance, is "ausóm", it is
_really_ 'ausóm', and I am even more sure about that than I was in my old
days of naive monolingualism. Weird, hm? ; )

My last post here was so long ago I should probably reintroduce myself...
and grow some shame and start posting regularly : ).

Anyway, nice text!

Edgard.

On 7/1/07, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
>
> The winner of the 2007 Smiley Award is Teonaht.
>
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html
>
> Most everyone knows Teonaht.  It's Sally Caves's labor of
> love that she's been working on just about all her life.  To
> hear Sally speak about it--or in it, for that matter--is always
> inspirational.  That someone has been able to work with a
> single conlang for more than forty years, and to infuse it
> with the energy and life that Sally has is nothing short of
> amazing.  I hope one day to be able to have a language I've
> handled as lovingly as Sally has Teonaht, and I'm very
> happy to award the 2007 Smiley Award to it (and her [and
> all those winged cats]).
>
> You can read my full write-up of Teonaht here:
>
> http://dedalvs.free.fr/smileys/2007.html
>
> [Note: Originally, I had planned to give out the Smiley on the
> first Monday of June every year.  I completely forgot about
> this, and instead remembered that I would give out on the first
> of July every year (don't know how that happened).  So, from
> now on, it'll be the first of July every year (unless I forget again).]
>
> For more information about the Smiley, go to the main page:
>
> http://dedalvs.free.fr/smileys/
>
> -David
> *******************************************************************
> "A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."
> "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
>
> -Jim Morrison
>
> http://dedalvs.free.fr/
>

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