Re: Minhyan & the goddess of conlangs
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 29, 2004, 18:16 |
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On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 06:26 , David Peterson wrote:
> Jeffrey wrote (and everything else in corner brackets):
>
> <<Oh, and have we ever decided which of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne
> and
> Zeus is the Muse of Conlangs? Because I need to know an appropriate
> offering to make to her!>>
>
> We should have an online voting...thing.
>
> I'd like to suggest that the Muse of Conlangs is (named in my just-made-up
> Romlang Ladelyoromono) Temporo Liboro, loosely translated as "free time".
> ;)
That would be giving Zeus and Mnemosyne a tenth daughter (or their first
son - but can a Muse be male?)
In any case, these Greek deities are no use as far as conlanging is
concerned. The Greeks had a very simple linguistic view of the world:
there are those who speak a proper language, namely Greek, and those
others, the 'barbaroi' who speak lesser tongues and might just as well be
saying "bar-bar". Conlanging is just adding to the bar-bar confusion.
If you need a goddess of conlanging, then IMO you need to look to a
different pantheon.
>
> We already have a patron saint, though, right? (Hildegard von Bingham?)
Yep - she's good enough for me.
> Seriously, though, we need to get crackin'. We need a flag, an official
> conlang
> bird, an anthem...
A flag & official bird, if you like (an official flower also) - but anthem?
In what language will the words be?
Ray
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