Re: Who wants some conlang audio? Yeah, I thought you did.

> These are wonderful, Thomas, and you read them so naturally.
You have a gift for this, and a good speaking voice.

Wow, what a compliment! Thank you, Sally. Although in all
fairness I have to admit that I did attempt to put on a "radio
voice"; my natural way of speaking is somewhat higher pitched
and less even.

> I think I like the Jafo text the best
Really? How interesting. Jafo was always fun and easy and kind
of silly for me, but I don't think it ever produced anything
that I liked better than the equivalent in one of the others.

> but I think you read the first one the best.
I thought so too, when I listened to them afterwards. I imagine
the reason is simply that Choba has been around the longest, and
therefore is the one I'm most comfortable with.

> I don't think anybody, listening to these casually, would
guess that these are not natural languages and you the native
speaker!

Fabulous -- that is exactly the impression I hoped to convey! :)

Of course, I did run through them several times before recording
them. And even then I ended up with several files that started
out fine but ended abruptly halfway through with a
"...balamuohfuckinshitcrap!!" ... I only put up the good ones.
;-)

And for what it's worth, I've greatly enjoyed your Teonaht audio
selections. Especially Caedmon's Hymn, and the spoken version of
Vul Vampin; lovely rhythm to the latter.  Although I wondered
why the link on your web page for Teonaht audio said "dream on!"
when it took you to a page full of stuff... ;)

And thank you again, Sally, for the lovely compliments.

All the best,

Thomas