Re: What are "Waponi" and "Nine"?

Josh wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
>    Being new, I have noticed many seemingly ongoing projects by numerous
> persons on this list.  Some of them interest me and I would want to
> contribute.  My biggest problem is that I don't really understand what
> these things are.
>    The two biggest ones are Waponi and Nine.  These are mentioned all the
> time.  But there are other projects being taken up by multiple conlangers,
> the names of which I cannot recall.
>    If someone could post a brief description of some of these projects I
> would greatly appreciate it.  I'm really quite interested in contributing
> to the cause.  Thanks so much.

Well, the Nine project was proposed by Danny Wier as a conlang with the
following phonemes only:  p, t, k, m, n, N, a, i, u (all as IPA), CV(C),
with the following clusters permitted:  mp, nt, Nk.  I took it up just
like that, and Rob Nierse also took it up but changed it around.
Recently, more and more people have been tweaking it to fit their ideas
for the project.
The Waponi Woo project comes from the movie Joe vs. the Volcano.  1989.
With Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.  Pretty bad film.  (The really sad part is,
I remember watching this, but I was only five when it came out and we
rented it soon after.)  Although, I'm not *exactly* sure what's going on
with the collaboration right now.  Maybe Roger Mills or someone else
more involved could clarify that?

Nicole
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