Re: Caraboo

On Aug 7, 2004, at 2:21 AM, John Leland wrote:
> In a message dated 8/5/04 8:25:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> cph9fa@ADMIRAL.UMSL.EDU writes:
> << Have
>  any of you ever walked up to someone (preferably a complete
> stranger!) and
>  started speaking your conlang to them? I mean seriously speak it, as
> if it
>  were your L1, and you didn't understand English? >>
> I never tried this in person, but I did do it in a MUD once.  To my
> disappointment,
> the person to whom I was "speaking" obviously recognized it
> immediately as a
> conlang. Perhaps people in fantasy MUDs expect such things.
> John Leland
Ooooh i completely forgot about those kinds of situations....

Periodically on ElendorMUSH, i have my character Stygius use a
Rokbeigalmki word or few... i've also used a number of 'battle cries'
in Rokbeigalmki, and in this one scene where he was mumbling while
unconscious, recovering from being held prisoner by Orcs, I had him
mumble in Rokbeigalmki.

In the 'standard medieval fantasy'-themed Live Action Role Playing game
i participated in up in college, all of my character's spell chants
were in Gábwe (Goblin).  Once someone assumed i was speaking in Hebrew,
possibly because of the velar Rs, but then i explained it to them.
Most people were just like "pssst, Out Of Character, what language is
that?" and then i would tell them it's Goblin.  Other times, i would
ask people OOCly before casting spells on them if their character
understood Goblin, and if they did i would just recite it in English
instead, because Goblin hurts my throat after a while.  It's all the
perpetual creaky voice :-P .


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  "the main purpose of the pyramid is to say
   'my unique pyramid is sky high and made of white marble.
    i do not share it with anyone'."
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