> 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! :) )
> >
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