Re: new relay

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote:

> Thinking about Tolkien, I've noticed that he tends to use a great deal of
> proper nouns.  These might be fun to mangle across languages, but they're
> perhaps less fun than native words.  (Though he does tend to provide
> etymologies - if no one objects, the names could be translated and borrowed
> both, to see the differing effects.)  I think, if we were to go with this
> Tolkien thing, then a snippet of the Silmarillion would likely be the best
> option, or the wonderful Books of Lost Tales.  In fact, in the process of
> writing this mail, I've found a passage that seems to be sufficiently long
> and interesting, and in a way sort of conlangy as well.    So, I'll start my
> portion of the relay, and begin compiling a list of participants.  Here are
> those that've expressed interest in a new relay so far, to my knowledge:
Heh.  I'm not sure *which* conlang-project (Tsuhon or Chevraqis) to use;
the former is far less-well developed, but in *some* sense requires less
work because I'm going to follow Japanese grammar fairly closely; the
latter is better-developed but in the midst of severe revision.  I figure
I'll use whichever seems more conductive to the relay.

> bjm10@cornell.edu... I could swear I should know who this person is.  I hang
> my head in shame.
<perking up head>  Another Cornellian?  Did I miss this person's post?

> This, I believe, will be the fourth:
> Irina's Starling Song
> Sally's Wisdom Of Bast
> Nicole's Bliss
> And then mine.  If I recall, there was a phonology relay of some sort, but
> it seems to have vanished from the face of the list with no evidence of its
> passage.
Yeah, it seems to have disappeared, which is quite a shame; would've been
fun, too.

YHL

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