Re: Teohian Relays

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:00:02AM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
[snip]
> I've got you added to the Conculture group.  Just so everyone knows,
> though, I had intended the linguistic group to be for people _interested_
> in linguistics, apart from the grammatical development of the conlang
> itself.  I'm assuming that if you want to participate in the first place,
> you have at least some basic grammar for your conlang.  Whether you discuss
> the finer points of conlang grammar in the Teohian Relay or discuss the
> difference between agglutinating and fusional is totally up to the
> participants.
My main problem is that I don't have enough linguistic terminology in
Ebisedian to talk about such things yet. In fact, I don't have that much
vocab for dealing with normal conversation either, my main excuse being
that Ebisedi culture / the conworld is weird enough that it doesn't have
words that correspond with Earthly concepts. (Oh shoot... I've just let
the cat out of the bag... :-P)

[snip]
> Basically, I wanted to break up interested parties into topic-groups to
> prevent people from getting an e-mail talking about phonology when all they
> want to talk about is culture, or vice versa.
Which brings up an interesting point... if we were to talk about
conculture, how would we reconcile the respective concultures of each
participant? or do we just talk about our own concultures? (Hmm, that
gives me an idea... a good conversation opener would be to discuss and/or
try to understand the other person's conculture.)

> >(Now I'll sit back and watch chaos ensue as the fear of Ebisedian rolls
> >over prospective correspondents... ;-)
>
> Perhaps we should equip newbies to the list with Ebisedianbane to protect
> themselves?  To say nothing of what measures would be needed to save us all
> from the likes of Maggel.  ;)
[snip]

Nah, Ebisedian isn't *that* scary, as those who have experienced it would
tell you. It's just a different paradigm (with emphasis on *different*
:-P) that once you get used to, isn't all that hard. Esp. now that I've
written a more-or-less gentle tutorial to Ebisedian that will get you up
to speed with the basics so that you have the means to deal with the more
involved stuff.

You don't get horrific spelling (mis)conventions like in Maggel, for
example. You do get funky vowel mutations in inflections, but if you're
just reading it, you don't really care; it's more of a concern only when
you actually want to write Ebisedian.


T

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