Re: Going NOMAIL: Honeymoon

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:52 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:

> I just got married yesterday, and we're going on our
> honeymoon for a week, so I'm going no-mail.
*ť-ĉu o huw pe ₣urŋ pen gě'dĭm-zla hǒl il.
All happiness and blessedness to both of you, through
your whole life!

Congratulations!


> it does, so what?  You can't do anything about it.  But
> if something you wrote or created can make one
> person's life in the whole history of human existence
> a little brighter, I say it's worthwhile.
I think David Lindsay said something like this about
his _A Voyage to Arcturus_; "It will never be popular,
but as long as our civilization lasts at least one person
a year will read it."  In a way that seems hubristic --
predicting that your book will last as long as our
civilization? -- but so far he's underestimated the
number of his readers by a good deal...  (I'm quoting
from memory, from I'm not sure what source.)

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/fluency-survey.html
Conlang fluency survey -- there's still time to participate before
I analyze the results and write the article