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

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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