Re: Memorization (conlang version)

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Keolah Kedaire wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, FFlores wrote:
>
> > I just received a message from someone who came across my
> > pages, with the following very interesting questions:
> >
> > > Do you have any methods for ease of learning an artifically
> > > created language ? In old societies, have you ever wondered how
> > > the scribes memorized the torah, or mahabarata ?
> >
> > Does anyone know about this? What do *you* do when you want to
> > learn a new language fast? For conculturers, please see my post
> > to Conculture... Has any of you attempted to memorize their
> > conlang's lexicon?
>
> Back when I was working on Tevric I used to tape little pieces of paper to
> things with their names in Tevric. (to this day I still remember that
> 'ithrixa' means computer). However, considering that I was 12 at the time,
> I doubt my family would think much of that today :)
>
I once translated WordPerfect 4.2 into Denden with a hex editor...
Later I did a translation of the Windows 3.1 Program Manager
with a resource editor. (Irina and I also did a Latin translation,
which incidentally gained us a contract to edit the Dutch version
of WP 6.0 for Unix - the firm wanted us to eventually translate
geographical software for the Pope into Latin, but that never came
to anything.) I can't read the wp floppies anymore, I fear, but
it was quite a treat to use, at the time...

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