There are 17 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1a. Re: Crisis averted
From: Daniel Burgener
1b. Re: Crisis averted
From: Sam Stutter
1c. Re: Crisis averted
From: Daniel Myers
1d. Re: Crisis averted
From: Daniel Bowman
1e. Re: Crisis averted
From: Piermaria Maraziti
1f. Re: Crisis averted
From: Piermaria Maraziti
2.1. Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
From: Padraic Brown
2.2. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
From: Gary Shannon
2.3. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
From: Sam Stutter
2.4. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
From: Padraic Brown
2.5. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
From: Peter Collier
3.1. Re: Meta: Signatures...
From: Henrik Theiling
3.2. Re: Meta: Signatures...
From: Sai
3.3. Re: Meta: Signatures...
From: Garth Wallace
4.1. Re: OT: ZBB offline for now
From: Matthew Turnbull
5.1. Re: PRIVATE Re: Meta: Signatures...
From: MorphemeAddict
6. Fiat Lingua: Birth of a Planet
From: David Peterson
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1a. Re: Crisis averted
Posted by: "Daniel Burgener" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:37 am ((PST))
Personally, I use Google Docs. It's convenient, and then my work is always
with me wherever I have an internet connection, and automatically backed up.
-Daniel
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1b. Re: Crisis averted
Posted by: "Sam Stutter" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:42 am ((PST))
On 20 Jan 2012, at 14:37, Daniel Burgener wrote:
> Personally, I use Google Docs. It's convenient, and then my work is always
> with me wherever I have an internet connection, and automatically backed up.
>
> -Daniel
I concur that automatic is the best way to go. Everything I've got gets copied
to Dropbox and onto my Apple Time Capsule. If you don't have some sort of
automatic backup, get it, it's a real life changer, although if you're on
Windows I wouldn't know what to advise for a local backup.
Sam Stutter
[email protected]
"No e na il cu barri"
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1c. Re: Crisis averted
Posted by: "Daniel Myers" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:26 am ((PST))
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Scott Hlad <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, January 19, 2012 10:40 pm
[...]
> I hope that others are keeping their work backed up so that no one has to
> face that fear!
Which brings to mind one of my favorite quotes:
"Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world
mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
- Doc
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1d. Re: Crisis averted
Posted by: "Daniel Bowman" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:34 am ((PST))
I wonder how Chuck Norris backs up his files.
2012/1/20 Daniel Myers <[email protected]>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Scott Hlad <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu, January 19, 2012 10:40 pm
>
> [...]
>
> > I hope that others are keeping their work backed up so that no one has
> to face that fear!
>
>
> Which brings to mind one of my favorite quotes:
>
> "Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world
> mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
>
>
> - Doc
>
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1e. Re: Crisis averted
Posted by: "Piermaria Maraziti" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:14 am ((PST))
On 20/01/12 07:15, yuri wrote:
> I'm glad you learned you lesson and shared so others can learn too.
> It's not hard to email your files to your gmail/hotmail/yahoo account.
There are various services who provide backup online. 1-2Gb or something more
are usually free.
If anyone needs a dropbox invite please send me an email (sending invites
gives 250M for those who wonder :-) ).
Ciao!
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1f. Re: Crisis averted
Posted by: "Piermaria Maraziti" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:18 am ((PST))
On 20/01/12 15:42, Sam Stutter wrote:
> I concur that automatic is the best way to go. Everything I've got gets
> copied to Dropbox and onto my Apple Time Capsule. If you don't have some sort
> of automatic backup, get it, it's a real life changer, although if you're on
> Windows I wouldn't know what to advise for a local backup.
I'm on linux, but my children are on windows.
I'm using this:
http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_backup_agent.html
which is specifically designed for rsync.net (a cheap provider for online
storage with no free solutions) which can work easily to automatically backup
directories on a local or locally mounted drive. A simple SOHO NAS will do or,
for a cheap solution, a USB stick with a mapped drive letter sothat the
software can recognize when it's attached and start the backup.
Ciao!
PS: delurking two times in a row...
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2.1. Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
Posted by: "Padraic Brown" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:10 am ((PST))
--- On Thu, 1/19/12, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Conlangs: Does anyone have a conculture that uses
> computer-type technology with an internet of sorts? If so,
> does it differentiate from this world's internet in its
> manner of operation?
Almost -- in the World, there is a theoretical framework devised by one
Gripley Mumford some time in the late 19th century that, had it ever been
implemented, would have given the World something akin to a thaumic version
of the Internet:
Working his way outward from his poston theory, Mumford further developped
the concept of cyberthaumics, a whole theoretical framework of subreality
communications that are sent across an interrelated webwork of energetic
pathways superficially similar to the postways of the physical world.
These energetic pathways were thaumically driven and quantic in nature. He
proposed a whole system whereby messages could be sent via T-Mail, short
for "thaumic mail". Theoretically, he proposed that messages, composed of
parcels of postonic data and sent along the thaumic causeways of the
interrelated webwork, would arrive instantaneously, regardless of their
relative contents. So, in other words, there would be no more delays of
post as existed in the purely physical system.
Waxing creative, Mumford envisioned a land where each individual or
institution would have a unique T-Mail address and could easily send or
receive between any other entity on the webwork. In order to make the
system practical, Mumford proposed the construction of a vast array of
thaumic engines that would employ not only a physical network of
iconographic display terminals (IDTs), but also an underlying network of
thaumic "trunk lines" and "yard switchers" that would route all the
"T-Mails" to the appropriate terminals where the usual array of imprisoned
imps would constantly paint and refresh the images in the display
terminal's window, or display crystal.
The system would be contained within a webwork of interrelated thaumic
machines that could be accessed from any display terminal. Ideally, such
display terminals could be housed within graphodromes called "Webwork
Popinas" where people could forgather to enjoy a tea or muffin while
checking their T-Mails. Universities and libraries would be the natural
venues for such Webwork Popinas, as they would also benefit from the
scholarly interplay.
But alas for the World's answer to the Internet: It is a shame that
Mumford's proposal was never read by the scholars and philosophers he had
originally sent it to; for university regents claim that packets
containing the treatise were "lost in the post..."
Gripley Mumford was by training an alchemist, but is probably the closest
thing the World has ever had to an actual scientist. If only some wandering
Outsider could have accidentally left a paper with the rudiments of the
Scientific Method somewhere in Mumford's lab!... He delved deeply into the
very fundaments of Dwimmery (study of magic) and Calidumery (study of
all things), and quite possibly was thinking a century or two ahead of his
time.
How this differs from *here*'s computer networks: the primary difference
here is the thaumic nature of the system. It doesn't work using electrons
swimming through wires, but uses some kind of thaumic particles that fly
through an ill-defined medium or conduit. One possibility could be a form
of heliothaumics, wherein highly energetic luminous magical particles are
made to fly through specially treated glass conduits. (Light particles
work very nicely as a vehicle for corralling and marshalling thaumic
particles.) Probably, the imp(s) in your IDT would see and transcribe what
you've scribed and concentrate that image onto the conduit. The imp(s) at
the other end of the conduit will see the tiny image in the conduit and
paint it upon the other IDT. They work very quickly!!
Heliothaumics is being used in the Uttermost West for certain surgical
applications. They have huge sunlight concentrators on the roof of the
Library (similar devices have long been used as a sort of skylight system
to brighten the lower levels of the complex and its workshops and surgical
theatres). The rather soupy concentrated light of these more powerful
concentrators is squeezed through a special conduit and once exuded, rapidly
expands back into normal light, giving off not only a great amount
of ordinary light, but also some lights of higher energies and quite a lot
of heat that can be used like a knife. They call it "helioparasion", or
cutting with the sun.
Imps are already in use in the Eastlands as the basis for an entirely
familiar form of communication, the Farspeaker. You holler into a funnel
on top of a wooden box and the imps inside bang on the ends of little
copper wires with their hammers -- imps inside another wooden box at the
other end of the line hear the taps and vocalise the transcribed taps into
a reasonably comprehensible simulacrum of your own voice. In the case of
the farspeaker, message quality is a function of number of imps in the
circuit, according to Gong's Maxim (More is Better). An array of no fewer
than nine imps is divided into three cohorts: two imps (each with four
hammers) are able to very quickly deliver 'data packets' that encode the
message content (the words you speak); three imps deliver data that encodes
your tone of voice (harmonics, formants); three imps deliver data that
encodes speech data (rate of speech, inflection, pauses); one imp sends
data that coordinates all the other data. At the other end, all this data
is translated back into a spoken message that your interlocutor will hear
as a reasonable facsimile of your spoken voice. This is called Voice Over
Wire, and was invented fairly recently by one Alexander Gong of
Auntimoany. Very complicated and bugger me how imps know how to operate
such a network! The quality of speech on this kind of network is probably
about equivalent to what you'd hear in a scratchy old 78. One imp is the
minimum required, but as you might guess, such systems are terribly slow
and unable to reproduce speech. Basically, with so few imps in the box,
you've got little more than a talking telegraph device. And a slow one at
that!
A historical note: the very first long distance farspeaking call made in
the history of the World turned out to be a wrong number! Mr Gong had
wanted to summon his assistant, Mr Wesson, from another part of the lab,
but instead hailed the Lord Mayor of Pylycundas (who wasn't expecting the
historic call that day, as it was scheduled for the next day). Everything
worked out well enough, as the Lord Mayor of Auntimoany was in fact
present and the two exchanged prepared speeches a day early.
Padraic
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2.2. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
Posted by: "Gary Shannon" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:19 am ((PST))
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Padraic Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Thu, 1/19/12, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
---
>
> Waxing creative, Mumford envisioned a land where each individual or
> institution would have a unique T-Mail address and could easily send or
> receive between any other entity on the webwork.
This reminds me of the "flue network" in Harry Potter's world. Or of
the mirror, also from Harry Potter, which when broken into two pieces
lets the holders of those pieces see each other over any distance.
--gary
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2.3. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
Posted by: "Sam Stutter" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:29 am ((PST))
On 20 Jan 2012, at 16:09, Padraic Brown wrote:
> How this differs from *here*'s computer networks: the primary difference
> here is the thaumic nature of the system. It doesn't work using electrons
> swimming through wires, but uses some kind of thaumic particles that fly
> through an ill-defined medium or conduit. One possibility could be a form
> of heliothaumics, wherein highly energetic luminous magical particles are
> made to fly through specially treated glass conduits. (Light particles
> work very nicely as a vehicle for corralling and marshalling thaumic
> particles.) Probably, the imp(s) in your IDT would see and transcribe what
> you've scribed and concentrate that image onto the conduit. The imp(s) at
> the other end of the conduit will see the tiny image in the conduit and
> paint it upon the other IDT. They work very quickly!!
If leylines exist in the World, could they be used for mobile communications?
Of course, you'd have to breed imps to be directly sensitive to leyline
radiation...
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2.4. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
Posted by: "Padraic Brown" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:23 pm ((PST))
--- On Fri, 1/20/12, Gary Shannon <[email protected]> wrote:
Two replies in one post:
> > Waxing creative, Mumford envisioned a land where each individual or
> > institution would have a unique T-Mail address and could easily send or
> > receive between any other entity on the webwork.
>
> This reminds me of the "flue network" in Harry Potter's
> world. Or of
> the mirror, also from Harry Potter, which when broken into
> two pieces
> lets the holders of those pieces see each other over any
> distance.
This motif is also found in Discworld. Possibly elsewhere as well. In the
World, there is a kind of subdimension that connects reflective surfaces
of all kinds, called (appropriately enough) the Mirrorworld. It's not a
place, but a different set of dimensions where life and activity are
depthless reflections of life and activity outside the Mirror. Mirrormages
are able to enter this set of dimensions and travel to other openings or
windows into it. They can thus see out from reflective shards of glass,
ice or even a household mirror.
As with any kind of magic, there is inherent danger. The lure of knowing
intimate secrets draws one into the mirrorworld, and if the mirrormage is
not careful, will either wind up a soulsick and paranoid person, afraid
of any reflective surface out of fear that someone is watching them or
else, and this is rare, they can actually fall *into* the mirrorworld and
become trapped there, unable to get out and stuck in a world of reflected
motion where they can neither communicate nor interact with the dimension's
other denizens.
So if you're ever at the Emperor's Ball, in the Hall of Mirrors, and you
see an extra person in the mirror that doesn't happen to be accounted for
in the hall itself, you can bet this poor lost soul was once a mirrormage
and can't find her way out again.
The flue network is interesting. There's nothing directly comparable in
the World. The closest thing would be travel via the Gate network. At
various locations around Gea (and indeed around the other habitable
planets in the system), there are nodes where thaumic energies are quite
high and serve as the locations of ancient transportation devices commonly
known as Gates. The Gate itself creates a sort of thaumic circuit between
itself and the planet's core, which is the source of the thaumic wind the
connections between core and each Gate as well as all the Gates together
creates a kind of web surrounding the planet.
Each Gate has its natural on-off cycle and seems to be
connected with the seasonal rotation of the planet through its own thaumic
field and is influenced by the moons' movement through that same field.
It is also possible, if you have the right key, to set the Gates and
open them manually. The Great Orrery at Alna seems to be in some way
connected with the Gate system, both as a monitoring and a control
array. Who built it and why is an absolute mystery.
The long and short of it is, a Gate opens over here, and a corresponding
Gate elsewhere, perhaps on the same planet or on another, opens at the
same time. You step in through one Gate and step out through another.
Anything can pass through -- people, animals, wind, water, lightning,
seeds, etc. You might not realise that you've stepped through, and unless
you're quick to back up, you might be stuck in a very alien place indeed!
And probably for a very long time.
And Sam Stutter wrote:
> If leylines exist in the World, could they be used for mobile
> communications? Of course, you'd have to breed imps to be directly
> sensitive to leyline radiation...
Ley lines as in lines of mystical force? Well, the Gates are indeed
connected into a web something like that. I don't know if any beings are
naturally sensitive that energy though. Well, at least none of the beings
on the surface are sensitive to such things. You have to get down into the
Uttermost Deeps, where you do find creatures that are sensitive to such
energy currents:
Crushing pressures no surface animal could withstand; unimaginably violent
hurricanes whip across the surface of the world unchecked; powerful
currents flow twisted by the convection uplift from the unfathomable
depths and solid metal precipitation rains back down from above -- these
mark the habitat of the unknown and unknowable beings of the Uttermost
Deeps. They're attuned to magnetic and thaumic field fluxes, and they can
not only sense the presence of others, but they can "see" them every bit
as clearly we see each other, for their bodies interfere with and bend the
lines of force all around them. Magnetic forces swirl around and thaumic
fields crackle and whip outward from the deep core in terrifying winds no
Wizard of the surface world could withstand and only the most powerful of
factitioners could control. They live in an electric world -- a five
thousand mile wide dynamo generating massive amounts of electrical,
magnetic and thaumic energies. These creatures use these waves to
communicate as easily as wolves howl or whales sing.
It's a weird world, down that deep. Some of the creatures are three miles
long with glittering silvery carapaces a quarter of a mile thick; others
with shells of thaumium more heat resistent yet grow to perhaps ten miles
long and dive into the unimaginable depths more hellish than any mere
demon could withstand, all the way down to the Hot Valleys where at last
solid ground is reached and temperatures soar to eleven thousand degrees
or more. Here, mile long trilobites with adamantine carapaces and
carborundium shelled crabs vie for choice tidbits, basking in the intense
thaumic winds blasting up from the core below, scrabbling along the ever
melting, ever reforming surface of their alien world that is more like a
sun yet is at the very heart of our own little planet.
Here, creatures experience only the heat from the World's Heart far below,
knowing nothing of the relative cool of Sunlight far above. Indeed, they
would freeze solid and die long before they ever got to the surface, and
perhaps some of their bodies form metal deposits miners have worked out of
the earth -- fossils of metal bodied creatures alive when the World was
young and composed of roiling liquid! A hot world of molten metal as far
as the electro-magnetic sense buds could detect writhing and roiling under
a new Sun (well, such of the new Sun as could be seen through the
coalescing clouds of less dense disk materials!) where carbide snakes and
adamantine halucigenia swam under the wan light of stars before there were
any moons or any eye of Daine or Man gazed upon them longingly.
I'm not so sure any of *those* critters would be appropriate as a means of
mobile communications for the on-the-go Auntimoanian trend-setter!
Padraic
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2.5. Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
Posted by: "Peter Collier" [email protected]
Date: Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:29 am ((PST))
Such whimsy...
-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Sam Stutter
Sent: 20 January 2012 18:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Magical Computers and Hammers that Talk (was RE: ZBB assorted)
On 20 Jan 2012, at 16:09, Padraic Brown wrote:
> How this differs from *here*'s computer networks: the primary
> difference here is the thaumic nature of the system. It doesn't work
> using electrons swimming through wires, but uses some kind of thaumic
> particles that fly through an ill-defined medium or conduit. One
> possibility could be a form of heliothaumics, wherein highly energetic
> luminous magical particles are made to fly through specially treated
> glass conduits. (Light particles work very nicely as a vehicle for
> corralling and marshalling thaumic
> particles.) Probably, the imp(s) in your IDT would see and transcribe
> what you've scribed and concentrate that image onto the conduit. The
> imp(s) at the other end of the conduit will see the tiny image in the
> conduit and paint it upon the other IDT. They work very quickly!!
If leylines exist in the World, could they be used for mobile
communications? Of course, you'd have to breed imps to be directly sensitive
to leyline radiation...
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3.1. Re: Meta: Signatures...
Posted by: "Henrik Theiling" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:05 pm ((PST))
Hi Conlang!
OK, you want more information.
My function as I see it is to serve the list, not to control it. So I try
to interfere only very rarely, because the list is generally well-behaved,
and, even better, has good self-regulation and self-healing properties
simply because the discussion standards are high and list members think, and
warn about hot topics, and people are understanding and avoid fights. Of
course, with so many people, it's not always calm, but, as I said, the list
has high standards, compared to other places in the virtual world.
When I had to set someone to NOPOST for the first time long, long ago, I was
uncomfortable with doing so indefinitely. So I told the person in question
that after 24h and at his request, I'd release the ban again. Well, he did
not ask.
I did exactly the same now. If Koppa asks, I'll immediately remove the
NOPOST again. After new complaints, I'd increase to 48h waiting time, then
to 96h, doubling each time. Doubling the waiting time is always a good
algorithm. :-) Since this happens so seldom, it's an untested algorithm,
though.
Before I set Koppa to NOPOST, I got a complaint. Then I checked his latest
threads which the list had already decided to stop based on NCNC. But due
to the connection to that topic, I then decided to ask him to change his
signature. I got back quite a rude email, so I tried to explain, only to
get another rude email, and to find that post to the list with the unchanged
sig. I had to set him to NOPOST at this point. If he asks to
reparticipate, I'll un-NOPOST him.
Best regards,
Henrik
(Your Benevolent Dictator)
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3.2. Re: Meta: Signatures...
Posted by: "Sai" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:33 pm ((PST))
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 15:04, Henrik Theiling <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did exactly the same now. If Koppa asks, I'll immediately remove the
> NOPOST again. After new complaints, I'd increase to 48h waiting time, then
> to 96h, doubling each time. Doubling the waiting time is always a good
> algorithm. :-) Since this happens so seldom, it's an untested algorithm,
> though.
Only somewhat related, but amusing: http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Xkcd-signal_FAQ :-)
- Sai
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3.3. Re: Meta: Signatures...
Posted by: "Garth Wallace" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:41 pm ((PST))
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Sai <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 15:04, Henrik Theiling <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I did exactly the same now. If Koppa asks, I'll immediately remove the
>> NOPOST again. After new complaints, I'd increase to 48h waiting time, then
>> to 96h, doubling each time. Doubling the waiting time is always a good
>> algorithm. :-) Since this happens so seldom, it's an untested algorithm,
>> though.
>
> Only somewhat related, but amusing: http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Xkcd-signal_FAQ
> :-)
Ah, so that's where 4chan got the idea for /r9k/.
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4.1. Re: OT: ZBB offline for now
Posted by: "Matthew Turnbull" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:18 pm ((PST))
Maybe we should have a CONFLAMEWARS list for the matters which cannot be
discussed on CONLANG and CONCULTURE. There may be a lot of people
interested in gossip or cross and crown.
Lol, but you can only flame people in a conlang, and your not allowed to
publish the grammar with the flame, people have to figure it out for
themselves! hahaha!
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5.1. Re: PRIVATE Re: Meta: Signatures...
Posted by: "MorphemeAddict" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:03 pm ((PST))
I was interested in the post as a history lesson of this list. I wasn't
involved in any of the "bad times".
stevo
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Ben Scerri <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah well, I don't think anyone will give a toss that it wasn't private. Or,
> at least, I hope no one cares. Many people seem to be very touchy currently
> on CONLANG.
>
> On 20 January 2012 21:28, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 20 Jan 2012, at 09:50, R A Brown wrote:
> >
> > > PRIVATE
> >
> > Oops.
> >
> > M
> >
>
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6. Fiat Lingua: Birth of a Planet
Posted by: "David Peterson" [email protected]
Date: Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:20 am ((PST))
I meant to write this quite a while ago (the article debuted on the first), but
things always keep coming up.
Roger Mills wrote an article for Fiat Lingua [*] that's basically his
conlanging story [*]: how he came to invent languages, and how he created his
conworld, Cindu [*]. It's a great read, and there's a lot in it that, I think,
will remind any conlanger of their own story.
To that end, I think Fiat Lingua is a good place to house conlanger origin
narratives. It's not a venue that's much bigger than a personal blog, but it's
central, and slightly more formal than the average blog (we work pretty much
exclusively with .pdf's, so authors can take more time with formatting, etc.).
When we get enough content to put out print anthologies, I think it'd be neat
to put one together that consists entirely of personal narratives by conlangers
about how they came to create languages. (And even if the general public isn't
so much interested in hearing about conlangs, there might be a wider audience
for origin stories like these.)
If you're interested, you can send an e-mail (or a file) to
[email protected]. Just an idea I thought I'd throw out there. :) Happy
conlanging.
[*] http://fiatlingua.org/
[*] http://fiatlingua.org/?p=112
[*] http://cinduworld.tripod.com/contents.htm
David Peterson
LCS President
[email protected]
www.conlang.org
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