Re: Tatari Faran and Flames

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 05:20:55PM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
[...]
> >Should I make the regular expression search an
> >option, and default to a word-by-word search? I suppose the term
> >"regular expression" would be unfamiliar to non-programmer types.
>
> It is to me, and word-by-word would be more useful.
OK, done. There's now an option to switch between word-search mode and
regular-expression search mode.  The default is word-search mode, so
that people won't get confused unless they ask for regular
expressions. Regular expression search is still available for those
computer geeks (such as myself) who like to make good use of it.

(Apologies to whoever got error messages while I was updating the
search engine... I really should setup a test environment on another
machine instead of altering a webserver while it's running.)


[...]
> >Nevertheless, Ebisédian refuses to die, and I think people
> >misunderstand me when I say that I'm moving on to Tatari Faran. What I
> >mean by that is simply that I will now be focusing my conlanging
> >energies on Tatari Faran rather than Ebisédian; but that doesn't mean
> >that I'm deleting all Ebisédian files and throwing them away forever.
> >As you can see for yourselves, Ebisédian is still alive and well in
> >the Ferochromon section of my website. A con-world almost 20 years in
> >making isn't going to disappear overnight. Ebisédian will certainly
> >make its appearance in a future relay, to the detriment of all other
> >participants and the chagrin of all onlookers, as well as the delight
> >of the volcanoes of Fara.
>
> I thought, erroneously, that you had abandoned it; when you said you were
> inventing Tatari-Faran I assumed it was a replacement.  Also, when you said
> that your vocabulary for T-F was limited, I wondered why you didn't import
> words from Ebisedian.  I suppose it's because you have also restructured the
> phonology, or now because you want to keep T-F Terran.
I prefer to develop Tatari Faran's lexicon separately because it *is*
in a different conculture, and as such, needs its own personality.
Importing Ebisédian words would defeat this purpose. And yes, Tatari
Faran's phonology is drastically different from Ebisédian, having
significantly fewer phonemes, an /r/ that's the same phoneme as /d/,
and no /l/.

(What this last means is that names like "Roland" would unfortunately
be rendered as /doren/ [dO4en]. Writing initial /r/ as /d/ and medial
/d/ as /r/ is just a convention; the same name could just as well be
written /doden/.)


> >>I guess they'll never count you a connie caught between the wall and the
> >>Wyrlorf, Teoh! :)
>
> (that was supposed to be "conie"--I just typed in my cat's name! :)
Ahh. :-)


> >Ahh, the delicious concultural questions this statement urges me to
> >ask! :-) Googling upon which, I have discovered your veritable tale of
> >Wyrlorf, with which I shall entertain myself in this otherwise dreary
> >afternoon of problems at work which are not entirely my own
> >responsibility. Ah, the joys of a software programming job.
>
> AAAAAACK!!!  I can't believe I posted that!  It's unfinished, it's
> unrefined, it's full of errors and inconsistencies, the ending is still not
> revised!   Don't read it!  I'll take it off immediately.
Unfortunately I've already finished reading it by the time I saw your
message. :-(

(Does that mean that I'm now the Wyrlorf? :-P)


> I think I posted it for a couple of friends and forgot about it.
> How do you give password admission to a website?
[...]

It depends on which ISP you're using and how they do it.  They would
be the best people to ask. But how it managed to end up in Google is a
mystery to me, since Google only indexes pages that are linked from
other pages. Although, if you had posted the URL in some public forum
somewhere before, that probably explains how Google stumbled upon it.


T

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