Re: The Melting

On Fri, 23 May 2003 14:50:48 -0400 Thomas Leigh
<thomas@...> writes:
> Jesse:
> > > I'm not even this clear as to how the Yivrindi interact with
> our world. I know that they have a completely separate conworld,
> Aratasa, with its own history and origins, but I know that some
> of them have at various times crossed over into our world and
> inhabit our timeline. My informant,  Narnagol, is one of these.
> He's very vague about how he got here from Aratasa, though.
>
> Sally:
> > We share some problems in common, then! :)  My original Teonim
> inhabited a world and a time completely separate from this one,
> but over the years I have been more and more invested in
> bringing them into this world and hit upon the "melting" as a
> kind of fantasy/sf explanation.
>
> Yay, I'm not alone! I've been struggling with similar issues
<snip>
> What happened in their past that led to that?
i've had similar problems with kontoko...
<leaving out a lot of stuff, half of which was in kinsi rorotan...>

> Alphabet is another thorny and irksome issue. There is an
> original Rozhendi alphabet, created by a friend at the very
> beginning, before I even had an inkling of what the culture was
> like, but it now just doesn't fit with the aesthetics of the
> language or the culture; yet even though it *looks* wrong, it is
> the writing system which *feels*most Rozhendi. But I still just
> can't see them writing like that, at least not all the time.
> They would find it ugly and not reflective of the beauty of
> their language, which is very important to them and needs to be
> expressed visually as well as aurally. I've tried using other
> invented alphabets, but again nothing really fits. I think using
> the Latin alphabet is increasingly common and trendy, especially
> among younger Rozhen, but there's no way older generations would
> use it, and certainly not in Atheléa. Maybe they use another
> writing system I've yet to work out, but then how the heck do I
> write anything in the meantime?
i'm having the same problem. the alphabet i've been using looks okay for
sighns and that sort of thing, but it would definitely not be used for
writing a book or anything like that and nothing else feels right... i
have several kinsi rorotan scripts derived from the old kontoko script,
but for some reason i can't figure out how to come up with an alphabet
that feels right for kontoko from the old kontoko one...  i've been using
the current kontoko alphabet or a transcription of that into the latin
alphabet...

> *Sigh*. I've written an emormous email now, and gotten myself
> all frustrated again just thinking about all my frustrations! :)
> Oh well, hopefully some of you will find it interesting, if
> overly verbose.
i find it quite interesting, as i've been having similar problems.  i
managed to prevent myself from sending a huge post, but just barely...

> Thomas
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