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

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Friday, February 12, 1999, 4:55
Hi Diana... I will be giving my paper on the Conlang List and conlanging in
general at Florida at the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts,
and I'm still not sure whether I will "out" myself  or not!  This is a dilemma...
it seems deceitful to talk about Sally Cave's Teonaht as though she's one of the
subjects I've been studying, but boastful (and dangerous) to talk about my
Teonaht as a sample conlang... so I'll probably toss Teonaht out of the running.
So to out or not to out?

What I'd really like to do is make them hook up a computer to a projection screen

and look at sample pages.  But then I'd have to ask them to have special audio
equipment for Hermann's Mizarian page, and Diana, your page requires special
downloads.  Sigh.  I still haven't mastered that.

Does anyone want to send me a taperecording of a sample language?  Maybe
from the Babel text?

Sally

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html
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Diana Slattery wrote:

> Steg, > > 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 > > Steg Belsky wrote: > > > This year as one of my electives i'm taking Psychology. It's not AP > > Psych, but we can take the AP test, with the help of a once-a-week AP > > Psychology "class" where one of the two psych teachers (not mine, but he > > taught my class for the first few weeks when my teacher had just given > > birth) teaches us AP-taking strategy and stuff that's on the test which > > isn't covered in class.....or at least that's how it's supposed to be. > > Students come to it very haphazardly...i guess that's the word, i > > couldn't think of a better one at the moment. So, last time it was just > > me and my friend Shaya, who all he wants is to get hypnotized :) . So, > > we were just chatting with the teacher and pretty much out of nowhere > > Shaya (_sha:hhya_ in Rokbeigalmki) "outted" me from the conlanging closet > > to the teacher! And then the teacher was like "hey, why don't you bring > > it next time" and i was like "uh....sure...." > > So, if everything goes as expected tomorrow, Shaya will get finally > > himself hypnotized, and maybe i can make him speak nothing but > > Rokbeigalmki when he wakes up :) > > Maybe i'll go to the library after school and find one of those Latin > > books to help me with Juzajajs (which i just made a font for....barukh > > hashem for the US-International keyboard layout! :) ).... > > > > -Stephen (Steg) > > > > (hey, gotta do *something* so that there're more than 2 messages a day on > > this thing! :) ) > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]