Re: Conlang Dream

tevit piter-son yawuri:

> I had a dream that I was watching a program on the upcoming
> baseball season so that I could bet on it (I believe).  I was watching
> a special on a particular player who was new on a team based in
> Jamaica, I think.  His parents were a man and a spider.  He looked
> human (normal human skin, features, etc.), except he had six arms.
Now that's really weird.......(Have you looked at ~thought about  Shiva
lately?)
(snip dream)
>
> Anyway, that just happened, so I wanted to share.  Anyone else
> remember any of their conlang dreams?
>
One amusing one, way back in Grad School days--
I was the Official Linguist on a First Contact mission to a civilized
planet...In one episode, I was in a crowded bookstore (like a college
bookstore) trying, with great difficulty, to buy a notebook and
pencil...don't recall what if anything was said.

Cut to me wandering down a street. Suddenly a street-cleaning truck came
along, spraying out a huge plume of liquid (as in old movies with similar
trucks spraying the streets of Paris in the wee hours). Somehow I had the
idea it might be spraying acid, so I ducked into a doorway. A native came
along and said "[s@'bu]", which I knew meant "it's just water".

Lo and behold, 10 or so years later: Kash savu 'water' (it's now sawu
[saw]).