Re: weirdness!

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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Padraic Brown
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 1:47 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: weirdness!
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> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Aidan Grey wrote:
>
> > How often do people dream about someone else's conlang? Or their
> >own, for that matter.
[...]
> This is the chant:
>
> zhen dheu dhri naiv  im mair;  selk nein d'zhack im meiriv  cah;
> 1    2    3    bones in finger 6    9    12      in fingers four
>
> zhen dheu dhri cah cou naiv  in gluir;
> 1    2    3    4   5   bones in palm
>
> con dheu im boidh; co sah in gail; an  lav; con dhri don    guir.
> w/  2    in thumb  w/ 7   in wrist the hand w/  3    to the arm
Wow, Padraic. I applaud you on your memory. I'm lucky to remember anything
that happens in a dream; it would be unthinkable to remember the exact
wording of a chant in a conlang. However, I have had a few conlangy dreams.
I remember one time having a dream in which the word Rokbeigalmki popped up,
though I don't remember anything else about it. Also, I remember once
dreaming up part of a pronoun system which went something like this:

        Nom.    Acc.
1st     me      memet
2nd     te      temet
3rd     le      lemet
(or was it se/semet?)

Obviously this was heavily influenced by Latin. Me, te, se, and le<ille are
all from Latin and the Romance languages. I remember that -met is sometimes
used in Latin as an emphasis marker for pronouns, e.g. egomet, "I myself."
But it seems pretty odd that it came out as an accusative marker in my
dream. I kinda like it though :O)