Re: CHAT: Hello

In a message dated 5/1/01 7:10:21 PM, tb0pwd1@CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU writes:

<< I think it's a matter of working styles.  I do not approach my languages
logically, but by emotional response.  The phonological shape arises from
intuition before it is codified, and I see the entire language as a whole
existing in harmony.  This is why I rarely finish a language; I often lose
the thread, the emotional tone, of the language before finishing it.

If, I've discovered, I translate a text inconsistant with the emotional
tone of the language too early, I lose the thread earlier.

Now, once a language is more or less solidly in mind, like, say, Hatasoe,
I can translate anything I like into it and not be the least bit troubled.
I've translated bits of the bible itno Hatasoe without any difficulty.

But not Hrondu.  I can translate Buddhist things into Hrondu, because
that's consistant with the flavor, but not Christian, not yet. >>

    Now this, to me, makes sense.  I don't operate along the same principles,
exactly, but I can definitely see where you're coming from, Pat.  As for the
other...

-David

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