Re: CHAT: Austin in Mid November (bats and wolves)

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:04:50 -0700, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Are the bats all gone??  :-(
Probably by then they will be. I read in the paper that they've started
migration already, that was a few days ago.

>I've been reading up on werewolves (new project) and taboo
>deformations.  In order not to utter the totemically dangerous
>word "wolf," people in Europe came up with epithets, or verbal
>deformations.  Gray-leg, Strangler--hence warg, varg in the
>Germanic languages.  How many of you have werewolf legends in
>your conlangs, and do they go by epithets?
I have a conlang spoken by werewolves. Called Thelwik, it's on a separate
branch of the Indo-European language family. Werewolves and vampires
actually exist in the Kolagian universe, at least in the old version =
before
I decided to start redesigning it. (Well, "redesigning" isn't quite
accurate because it was never really "designed" in the first place; it =
just
sort of fell together.) But Kolagian werewolves (unlike vampires) aren't
generally seen as malevolent beings, and at least one was a heroic =
figure.

I'm not sure where this language will fit into my new concept of Kolagia;
whether shape-changers even exist or not. It could be spoken by a race of
anthropomorphic wolf-people, but why then would it be derived from
Indo-European roots?

--=20
languages of Kolagia---> =
+---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>---
      Thryomanes        /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print =
any
   (Herman Miller)     / thing till they were sure it would offend no =
body,
   moc.oi @ rellimh <-/  there would be very little printed." -Ben =
Franklin