Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people in Academia [was Re:Caryatic]

On 22 July, Sally Caves wrote:

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>... my recent talk was at the
>Medieval Institute, where it was received with
>excitement and puzzlement.  "But what's the point?"
>asked someone.  "Why do it?"  "For creative
>satisfaction?"  I said.  "For the love of syllable painting?"
Not having heard the intonation, nor seen the body-lang
which accompanied that last question, I don't know
how it was meant. However,  IMHO it is a _very_
beautiful phrase! So much so that, with your permission,
I'd like to borrow it (slightly changed) as a word to express
"commonality between conlanging and poetry"!

Thus, in rtemmu:

rlortemkayamu

rtem = minimal linguistic unit
-lor- = infix relating to sound, thus:
           rlortem = phoneme
-kaya = suffix indicating beauty
-mu = suffix indicating "dynamic system", thus:
    -kayamu = dynamic system of beauty

thus: r-lor-tem-kaya-mu = creating  dynamic beauty with phonemes:
conlanging or poetry or both! :-)

Dan Sulani

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