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Re: Láadan

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Sunday, December 8, 2002, 19:34
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From: "Mau Rauszer" <maurauser@...>


> I am a woman, or better say a girl (Mau Rauser is a Long Wer name meaning
'Cat, Sun-power').
> And I think a lot of woman and teen (at least here in my school and among
friends) lives only
> for the guys, friends and family; they even don't attempt to do something
intellectual, something
> that they are interested in beyond present or future work.
(And I dare say there are a number of young men like that. People are people) Well I'm just pleased to death that Mau is female! And I see Camilla on the list as well. Do you think the list will eventually appeal to more and more women? What has made you invent languages, Mau? I visited your lovely Web site. You and I have a similar interest in animals; Teonaht originally started out as a language for my "heaven cats." I think I mention this on my Web site, too. Check it out at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html or http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/whatsteo.html one of these pages mentions the "feleonim."
> They say (or think) to/about me: "You're an idiot. Why do you do that? Why
do you write,
> create names and places never heard before; why are these 'abstract'
things important to you?"
> Or if it impresses them they just can say "Ooh you're so curious...
how/why do you do that?"
> But none of them says "Hey it is so cool! I wanna do it too."
I have gotten many of these negative responses, but lately the responses have been more favorable. One of my own students started her own conlang because she had heard about mine. Now that's something to warm the cockles of one's heart! Sally
> Mau > Ábrahám Zsófia alias Mau Rauszer > | http://www.hiaqimau.tk | http://www.longwer.tk | > "Yú lawe ta mau yibali taqe yamissi qi u neb dagu tawiy iq." -- Kipling
I'm curious about the Alias. The Abraham Zsofia. S.