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

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Monday, October 25, 1999, 3:06
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