Re: Ephphatha

Peter Bleackley wrote:
> What was the thing that first opened your mind to the exciting
> possibilities of language?
As I've reported before, probably while looking up sexual terms in my
grandfather's ca.1900 encylopaedia, I came across Sanskrit, which led to all
sorts of cross-refs.-- Indo-Germanic. Grimm. Bopp. The whole schmeer. Non-IE
families got quite short shrift; I think there was some acknowledgement that
Finnish and Hungarian were related.This was sometime in late-ish
grade-school years, 6th, 7th, 8th grade. Around the same time, I glommed
onto my (3yrs older) sister's beginning High School Spanish book.

I know I devised a Sanskrit-Latin clone thing sometime in my 1st year of
high school, after introductory Latin-- pages of verb conjugations, all of
which I somehow had memorized.  Sometime in the summer after my 2nd year of
high school I created a "real" language, with religious texts of some
length.  None of them survive-- sad from a professional~academic point of
view, but I'm sure it would be utterly cringe-making to read them now.  My
roommate at school and I actually used this language in a little
folie-à-deux for a while.

Munane Itha Theno, fekerud inekadrud mundei iminane deniei....

E blithe. Ikimorithaz blishu blithe, bikodi blithe....

The deity's name was Itha Theni.  Vocative -o, genitive -ei, dative -ainigi,
there was an acc. and abl. at least, which I don't remember.

Adjectives were invariant, ending in -ane.

It was written in a quite interesting but ill-conceived syllabary.

I didn't conlang at all from around 1952-1976, when Kash came along.