Re: Diachronic instability of oligosynthesis

On 1/21/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:

> Anyway, the genesis of Uiama was a silly, science-
> fictional type of dream about some creatures trying
> to gather fruits from a particularly difficult tree.
> I saw the tree and the wild fruit-gathering animals
> quite clearly, and heard the people singing a song
> about the tree - as it were, on its behalf, addressing
> the animal that always robbed it.  (Talk about
> hallucinations! :-) )  So when I woke up, I wrote down
> everything I could remember very quickly.  A few days
> later, the music of the song 'Paruktfui mbo' was still
> quite clear enough for me to write down.
Wow.  Too spiffy for words.

> Where can I lob a copy of the document outlining
> Uiama (called "Discovering Uiama through its Poetry")
> for anyone interested to read it?
You could copy the text of the document
into one of the various conlang wikis
that we recently discussed here.  Or you
could upload the Word document to the
archives of one of the Yahoo listgroups
about conlangs and concultures.
Or save it as an HTML file and send it
to me, & I could host it on my web
site for a while.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm