Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:25:24PM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> [snip]
> > Did you really say that to yourself?! Are you really fluent in your
> > language like Sally said you were?! Incredible!!! I just so wished I
> > could just utter a single sentence in a conlang of mine!
> [snip]
>
> LOL... well, at least we can take comfort in the fact that your mind isn't
> as maggelitinous as Maggel. :-P
Nope!  An orderly mind for a twisted conlang. :)

> As far as fluency is concerned though... I can speak Ebisedian (though
> rather slowly and staccato-ly). And even though recently I've kinda lost
> touch with it (due to my attention being diverted by other more pressing
> things), I can still write simple sentences without needing to consult the
> grammar or the lexicon.
Oh, you guys with your elephantine memories!  Yry invidyihs!!!!

Actually, I can speak some Teonaht to my cat (where's my little daughter
cat?  Who's my favorite cat? Does my daughter cat want her back scratched?)
and to my husband (remarks deleted) who remains lovingly baffled.  I can
write simple sentences without consulting my lexicon, but it's sentences
like "I don't know how to get my sister to see reason!" or "I wish somebody
would tell me what channel Law and Order is on" that have me scrambling
around for the right word order.  And then there's "channel" to invent.  The
problem with thinking and talking in Teonaht is that it violates the syntax
I'm used to, and you have to think of the object first.  Even if you front
the subject.  That's the problem with analytic languages of unusual and
twisted syntax.  Writing is easier.

> Winners never quit, quitters never win. But those who never quit AND never
> win are idiots.
Ydrinvar cov veramo kraika, covkraikivar veramo ydrin.  Ma dovnaka on onid
rem veramo kraika ydrrinJO!
(Yry ma kare na ykshavend onid veramo miprem; rin ywem uab onid deyrem benda
na, ty imo rem onid ydrin vera.)

"But for me it seems worse one's never starting; one's keeping at something
is good, even if one doesn't win."

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