Re: Aaaaaargh!!!!!

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Dan Jones wrote:

> Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. However, it is with great
> regret that I must inform you that due to the machinations of the evil
> technology an entire language family has died <sobs dramatically>.
>
> To explain, my Psion series 5 (which I do basically all my conlanging and
> writing on) fell into the hands of my eight year old cousin and then fell
> through them and on to a concrete floor. Unfortunately, with the demise of
> my Psion, the entire Carastan language family has died, as have Norreyna and
> Arvorec. However, all is not lost, since I had a great deal of Aredos
> grammar on my PC I can reconstruct the vocab and so on. Now, if you will
> excuse me, I have to go and work like a blue arsed fly to recover three
> years work...
>
Are you sure it's irrecoverable? When my psion series 3 dropped, the
screen broke, but I could still (by checking every keypress with
another psion) backup the contents to another computer. (Of course, I
then proceeded to blithely wipe the hard-disk of that computer, a few
months later, but that's another story.)



Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org

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