Re: From The Ashes...

En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:

> Well I had to leave in a rush a while back.  I just started to lose my
> mind
> and post nonsense.  When things turned around, I was busy with the
> music
> stuff.  Now I'm in a new band and that's taking up most of my time and
> energy (I have lots of time but not much energy, thanks to these
> !@#$%^&*
> meds).
>
Well, welcome back, and I hope things are better now. It's never nice to lose
your mind, you only have one (and the joke is only in the form of the sentence,
not the meaning).

Well, it seems those last days have been days of comeback! Sally, Pablo, Keith,
and now Danny! It's quite nice!

> I ended up back to conlanging through the back door so to speak.  I
> was
> researching non-Western music theory and fell in love with the Turkish
> 53-tone gamut.  Now that I'm longing for the day I have the means to
> design
> a 53-tone-per-octave keyboard (all I have is my fretless bass guitar), I
> can
> do some of my weird music.
>
53 tones per octave? Wow. Actually, I don't anything about music except the
usual scales. Does anyone know a good web resource on the web about music
theory?

>
> I also got Windows XP, and of course that comes with support for all
> those
> languages.
Is it really nice? I bought my computer just before the release of Windows XP,
and I'm not sure I want to update my Windows Millenium which is less than two
months old (and the update is much too expensive anyway). Are there much
difference?

>
> Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be talking about conlangs now.  I've put all of
> my
> old projects on the shelf, maybe for good.  No more trying to invent
> the
> language with a thousand phonemes or whatever it was.
Too bad, I was following the development of Tech with quite a lot of
interest :) .

>
> The language is written in Arabic script, using all 28 letters we're
> familiar with, with little change in pronunciation (I will probably
> voice
> saad, taa' and qaaf and lateralize daad).  Five additional letters found
> in
> Persian (p, ch, zh, v, g) are added, and some letters will have two
> possible
> consonant values.  The three vowel diacritics will have to represent
> six
> vowels (each can be short or long), though: a, ä, e, i, o, u; the
> second
> vowel has a weak allophone of the neutral "schwa" vowel.
>
Funny the fascination we seem to have with the Arabic script. There's still
that project of mine of an Arabo-Romance conlang, which began as a wish to
write a Romance language with the Arabic alphabet :)) .

Welcome back again!

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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