> 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
> ================================================
> 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! :) )
> > >
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