Re: NPR interview

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Oh!  And I got a post from someone on the
> list who expected to hear my nom de plume,
> "Sally Caves," and instead heard a stranger's
> name:  Sarah Higley.  That's still me!
But if you weren't Sally Caves, you couldn't be Sarra di lla Cafurn,
which is just such a cool name.  :-)

> It was the Full Professor and linguist that got the affiliation
> credit and "valorized" my "hobby" for me.
Frankly, he sounded a tad patronizing to me.

> However, this afternoon I got four emails at my UR e-address
> from people all over the nation, two of whom admitted to
> being secret conlangers themselves.  They want to be put
> in touch with the group.
Well, by all means send them to
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html
so they can check us out and sign up.

> I would really like to know more about Descartes' invented
> language.
AFAIK Descartes didn't actually invent anything, he merely proposed
that a classificatory-type *a priori* auxlang would be a Good Thing.
BTW, has anyone traced down connections, if any, between auxlangs
and library classifications?

> Thanks, all of you, for your support!  I couldn't have
> done this without you.
And now that you have outed yourself so thoroughly in the national
media, you have no choice: you gotta be a participant observer now!

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter