Re: Psycho Conlanging Closet Hypnotized --- Film at 11!

Thanks!  I'm glad yours was at least partially positive, mine went well
too.  He was interested and liked the idea, and said that he wished he
had the perseverence for working on such a big project as a language for
so long.  He also told us (it was just me and Shaya again) about a
dissertation or something he wrote once about Nonstandard American Black
English (i think that was the term he used) about 25 years before it
became known popularly as Ebonics.  I let him keep the vocab list that i
had printed out, but he may (eep!) show it to the Principal, who i've
never really met.  Scary....so i guess both of us are up for bigger
outings in the future.  Good luck with yours!

On slightly more mundane news, i took a long out-of-my-way subway trip
after school to the Central library to get some Latin and/or Romance
Languages books (thanks to everyone who suggested ones), but that section
was closed for renovation.  blyahh (new Rokbeigalmki negative
exclamation).


-Stephen (Steg)
 "hhalomot zeh b'emet"


On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:05:18 -0800 Diana Slattery <slattd@...>
writes:
>We should be having a virtual coming out party for you--and for those
>other
>of us who are engaged in such dangerous debuts. Bill and Daniel and  I
> gave
>a demo to a couple profs and some grad students last Thurs.  of Glide.
> Got
>out the computer projector, darkened the room, flashed up the website,
>and
>started talking.  The eeirie effect was of a kind of stunned silence.
>Two
>came up after and expressed "speechlessness" with a generally positive
>tone.
>Others expressed an intense degree of puzzlement, unable to place
>either the
>activity of creating a conlang--and for what purposes--or the content,
>context, world, etc. As my academic career in a sense depends on being
>able
>to communicate about if not with Glide, explore the possibilities and
>implications of a visual language, as minimally a thought experiment,
>it's
>kind of daunting.  But past the point of no return.  Next "outing"
>will be a
>conference presentation at Connecticut College--Arts and Technology
>thing in
>early March.  About that I am petrified.  So hearing you get your
>practice in
>early sounds like a good way to go.
>
>I'm sure there are lots more "outings" to be shared on this list.
>
>Diana
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