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Re: On doubt relief ... (family tree revision)

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 11:47
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:35:04 +0000, Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
wrote:

>The chief other argument against a change is, I'm afraid, simply that I >dislike changing long-standing ideas. It would also place closer constraints >on any future work on Telenzh and Tsarizh I may undertake - if that'll be a >help or a problem is not possible to say at this point. > >So, I guess that the rub of the matter is whether I'll accept a further >reshake along with the chronological one to gain in "internal plausibility" >on the sociolinguistic plane. I'm currently leaning towards making the >revision, but I feel I could use some counseling.
I've recently come to the decision that, since Zireen love telling stories, any inconsistencies, contradictions, or outdated ideas in my notes can be explained as being works of Zireen fiction or mythology. This allows me to keep all the old ideas as long as I like, while giving me the freedom to practically start from scratch as far as documenting the "real" Azirian universe (which is getting to be more and more Zireen-centered). Now, if I only had time to get back to those Zireen languages, and the new Zireen music that I was just starting to learn about.... -- languages of Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>--- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin