Digest miscellany: I Brighten universe, owl eyes, Babaev url

> From:    andrew <hobbit@...>
> Subject: Re: Brithenig/Aelyan North America (was: Re: Languages in the
>          Brithenig universe)
>
> I would like a better name than the Brithenig universe.  That's turning
> into just one part of a shared world of linguafictors.  Any suggestions
> for a proper name for the B.U.?
From the way it's always referenced, I always think of the Brithenig
universe as 'over *there*'.
Is that suitably euphonic in Brithenig?

> From:    dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
> Subject: Re: Fluency in one's language, and the ROE
>
> Congratulations, Doug!
>
> I would be interested in a transcript of your presentation, if
> such exists; perhaps others would like to see it as well--with
> some notes about the Q&A--maybe Sally could help ...
Allow me to "me too" wanting to see that if possible ;p

> From:    FFlores <fflores@...>
> Subject: Re: [elfling] The Indo-European language Database
>
> Roger Mills <Rfmilly@...> wrote:
>
> >Just began exploring this site last evening...seems excellent and quite
> >level-headed.
>
> Nice! Without a URL, however, it's difficult for me to tell. :)
> Did you give it and I missed it? (Same for Babaev's site --
> I think I had his URL, but it was not in egroups.com.)
Babaev's site is (I think) http://babaev.newmail.ru/

> Date:    Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:52:26 -0600
> From:    Aidan Grey <urso@...>
> Subject: Re: Brithenig et al. Universe (was: Brithenig/Aelyan North
America)
>
>     Sounds cool to me! I'd love to have a universe where all of our
conlangs
> can have a place.
I couldn't handle the responsibility!
Actually, mine wouldn't fit anyway... I couldn't see my non-human speakers
in, say, the Brithenig world, even if they _do_ keep to themselves on a
Mediterranean island out there.  Plus I think some of the basic mundial
preferences couldn't match either.

(Really I need to remake some of my conlangs... they were ok for beginning
practice, and have the basic idea, but they couldn't possibly be 'canon'...)

> Date:    Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:09:23 -0500
> From:    Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...>
> Subject: Re: some proverbs
>
> Patrick's proverbs remind me of a Tokana proverb (the only
> good one I've been able to 'discover' so far), namely
> "inie hounne, kalie launein" ['injE 'hOwnnE, 'kaljE law'nejn]
> literally "eyes for the owl, legs for the rabbit".
>
> Any guesses as to what this proverb means?
Well, I read it as describing redundancy...

Try as I might I can't really think of a good parallel example... the idea I
get is that the owl's eyes are good enough, there's no point in giving it
any...?

(I'm mildly reminded of that old cartoon where the hero calls on e.g., 'the
speed of the puma' or whatever) ;p

    *Muke!

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