Re: new relay

I'd like to participate with either Míjador or my unnamed
but rapidly growing new language. (This new language is the
secret love child resulting from a ménage à trois involving
Míjador, ea-luna, and Sïdmak...)

Shreyas Sampat wrote:
>
> : No! Poetry is so culturally laden that people with languages
> : embedded in a fairly well thought out culture would be hard
> : pressed to make it fit (remember the discussion we had a while
> : ago about the Declaration of Human Rights?). I would strongly
> : prefer that the relay text not be poetry for this reason.
>
> This is a good point.
> 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:
>
> Robert Hailman
> Dirk Elzinga - Shemspreg
> Roger Mills
> Padraic Brown
> Jesse Bangs
> Herman Miller - Czirehlat
> Tom Pullman?
> Daniel Andreasson
> Yoon Ha Lee
> Daniel Seriff - Mungayöd, Glïzxföösee
> Frank G. Válóczy  - Dalmatian (acutes, yes?  I remember you mentioning that
> your mailer can't handle them.  Tragedy.)
> bjm10@cornell.edu... I could swear I should know who this person is.  I hang
> my head in shame.
>
> 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.
>
> ---
> Shreyas
>
> P.S.:Sally, I love the setup you've done for your Second Relay website.
> It's really great seeing these things in their full splendour.  I love
> relays.
> ---
> Shreyas
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