A welcome to John Leland

Did John Leland join the list?  I must have missed his first posting!  John
is a member and officer of the academic organization Societas Magica, a
group devoted to studying magic in the middle ages.  I certainly hope this
is the right John Leland; I gave him the address of the group when I heard
that he was a fellow language inventor.  Societas Magica is full of
wonderfully intellectual and interesting people, and it's annually
represented at the Medieval Institute at Kalamazoo Michigan--a huge
conference devoted to things medieval.  I gave my paper on "Angelic,
Demonic, and Other Invented Languages" two weeks ago there, and in the Q&A
period John recited a most beautiful sentence in his language.  I tell you,
we are EVERYWHERE! (John, I'm sorry to be out of touch... I just got off
"the hook" three days ago.  UR graduated its seniors last Sunday, and I
finally turned my final grades for non-seniors in on Monday.  I still have
my graduate student papers--LATE!--to read).

David Kieckheffer, author of _Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the
Fifteenth Century_ engaged a few of us later on in the lobby in a
glossolalic conversation that left us breathless with laughter, and
bystanders baffled or amused.  Then we sang, McFerrin style, in harmony, in
an "unknown tongue."  I tell you, Kzoo was both sublime and ridiculous.
(That was sublime; the woman who put her foot up on the restaurant table to
show us her shoes was ridiculous).  I go there for people like John Leland
and other dabblers in cabinets of wonder.  And to see all my other friends.
And to buy books, and AMBER from Brad West in the northwest corner of the
book exhibit.

Oh, and BTW, I talked, too, about Sylvia Sotomayor's lovely and difficult
Ke'len as an "alien" language, and Paul Burgess's Hermetic, both of them on
list!

Welcome, John!  You'll find us an amiable group, much of our discussions,
lately, "off topic."  We've just had a survey of our language typologies.

Sally "Sarah Higley" Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Conlang Typology Survey


> En réponse à John L. Leland :
>
> >Note: I recently joined the list.  Full introduction later, if I find
time.
>
> Welcome to the list! :) Take your time for your introduction :) .
>
> Christophe Grandsire.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
>