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1a. Re: Artikolo en Usona Esperantisto From: Matthew Turnbull 1b. Re: Artikolo en Usona Esperantisto From: Daniel Bowman 2a. Re: Worldwide conlanger locations map, v2 From: Anthony Miles 2b. Re: Worldwide conlanger locations map, v2 From: MorphemeAddict 3. OT: Hello to UCSCian Alex Bicksler (was Worldwide conlanger location From: Larry Sulky 4. Two Albic-related ATLs (was: Joseph Peanou RIP) From: Jörg Rhiemeier 5a. Latest SpecGram: The Morphome Issue From: David Peterson 5b. Re: Latest SpecGram: The Morphome Issue From: Peter Bleackley 6.1. Re: As the Actress Said to the Bishop From: Francois Remond Messages ________________________________________________________________________ 1a. Re: Artikolo en Usona Esperantisto Posted by: "Matthew Turnbull" ave....@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:02 am ((PDT)) Bone! (aplauxdado) Messages in this topic (3) ________________________________________________________________________ 1b. Re: Artikolo en Usona Esperantisto Posted by: "Daniel Bowman" danny.c.bow...@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:00 pm ((PDT)) Wow...I read the Esperanto without noticing that the English translation was right below. I've never studied Esperanto, but I was able to understand most of what Tony wrote. I'm impressed: the language is developed so well that a native English speaker with a little French instruction can understand it (to a point) without having to study! On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Matthew Turnbull <ave....@gmail.com>wrote: > Bone! (aplauxdado) > -- Ayryea zakayro al Gayaltha Messages in this topic (3) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 2a. Re: Worldwide conlanger locations map, v2 Posted by: "Anthony Miles" mamercu...@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:53 am ((PDT)) I've added myself to the map. Now I need to read up on Garth and Emerson's projects! Messages in this topic (16) ________________________________________________________________________ 2b. Re: Worldwide conlanger locations map, v2 Posted by: "MorphemeAddict" lytl...@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:44 pm ((PDT)) >From Sai's initial post: "So I've made a new one with Google Maps - hopefully it won't die." Sounds like a link to google to me. stevo On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Mechthild Czapp <0zu...@gmx.de> wrote: > Gah! You should have said that this links to google. I refuse to use Google > due to its attempts to collect data about everyone and everything. > > For the list, it suffices that I live in the area where the ccTLD is .de ;) > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:01:23 -0500 > > Von: Sai <s...@saizai.com> > > An: conl...@listserv.brown.edu > > Betreff: Worldwide conlanger locations map, v2 > > > frappr.com/conlang is long dead, alas. And I'd like to know who's near > > me. So I've made a new one with Google Maps - hopefully it won't die. > > ;-) > > > > Please go add yourself now: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/conlangmap > > > > Thanks & enjoy, > > - Sai > > -- > Sanja'xen mi'lanja'kynha ,mi'la'ohix'ta jilih, nka. > > My life would be easy if it was not so hard! > > > > GMX DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 für nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* > http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl > Messages in this topic (16) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3. OT: Hello to UCSCian Alex Bicksler (was Worldwide conlanger location Posted by: "Larry Sulky" larrysu...@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:22 pm ((PDT)) I see on the conlanger map that Sai created an entry for one Alex Bicksler, who appears to reside at UC Santa Cruz. Hello, Alex, from an ancient Cowellite! ---larry Messages in this topic (1) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4. Two Albic-related ATLs (was: Joseph Peanou RIP) Posted by: "Jörg Rhiemeier" joerg_rhieme...@web.de Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:33 pm ((PDT)) Hallo Ray! I wish to make further comments on something I wrote on Tuesday: > (I still sometimes pay brief visits to two Albic-related ATLs, > one diverging in King Arthur's time, with an Elvish enclave > surviving in Somerset in a different UK, and one having the > ancient Elvish civilization never fall, but each time I try to > work on either of them, I quickly realize how unrewarding the > enterprise is. I should perhaps finally lay those two timelines > to rest.) The timeline which diverges in King Arthur's time is the "UKW World", named after the United Kingdom of the Westlands. The idea behind it is that after the fall of the Commonwealth of the Elves, a community of Elves survived in Somerset until it was assaulted by King Arthur in the early 6th century (some versions of Arturian legend relay such an event), which led to tensions within Arthur's realm and to the battle of Camlann. In the UKW World, King Arthur rejected the instigation of the Church to campaign against the Elves. This meant that the Elven community survived - to the present day. It also meant that Arthur became the founder of a dynasty under which all Britons were united. Britain gradually lost territory to the English, but as for 2010, Wales is still about twice as big as it is today, with the Hafren (Severn in English) running its entire course in Wales. Through a series of inheritances, the descendants of Arthur have managed to become the kings not only of Wales, but also of England, Scotland and Ireland. The four kingdoms were at one point united in the United Kingdom of the Westlands. The UKW World is one where overall history is similar to that of our timeline, but with many differences in detail. Generally, there is more regionalism and federalism, and some countries followed alternative pathways to democracy, such as the Hanseatic League. Rosicrucianism, an alternative strain of Christianity borne from Joseph of Arimathea carrying the Gospel to the Elves, plays more or less the role of Protestantism, being a widespread religion in the Westlands and the predominant religion in the Hanseatic League and in Scandinavia; also the Albigensians may have been Rosicrucians rather than Cathars. There is a connection between Rosicrucianism, Elvendom and the larger number of early democracies: the Elvish Rosicrucian tradition emphasizes free will and the Purpose, and calls for a liberal society. This world, however, is still very sketchy, and I currently keep it alive mainly for an "urban geofiction" project which I started a few years ago, then put aside, until my interest in it was rekindled by this site: http://urbangeofiction.stadtkreation.de/ The project involves the UKW World's version of Glastonbury, the capital of Elfham. In the UKW World, Glastonbury is a bustling city of about 200,000 inhabitants, the majority being Elves, but English, Welsh and other nationalities are also present there. Glastonbury is the see of the Archbishop of Glastonbury, who is sometimes called the "Rosicrucian Pope", though he does not have the same kind of power over the Rosicrucians of the world as does the Roman Pope over the Catholics. The linguistic landscape of the UKW World differs from OTL mainly in being a bit more diverse. Low German, the language of the Hanseatic League, is a full-fledged national language. I am also considering a fragmented France like that of BPJ's Lucus and Adam's Carrajina timeline, with Burgundy becoming a separate nation-state and Bourgignon becoming a language with its own literary standard, and a Rosicrucian republic in the Languedoc, with Occitan as its national language. The Elves of the UKW of course speak an Albic language (essentially the same as one of the modern Albic languages of the LLL, but that languages is not developed yet). Ah yes, and Manx and Cornish never died. Now to the other Albic-related ATL. In "OTL" as well as the UKW World, the Commonwealth of the Elves fell ultimately due to internal strife. There was an ultraconservative but technologist movement (the Commonwealth was technologically on the level of Classical Greece, with the development of machinery running on wind and water power), the "Society for the Strengthening of Elvendom", founded by a brilliant but unruly inventor-politician (and allegedly magician) named Lóchanâro. Lóchanâro's first attempt to get into power was by elections, but he lost. Then he launched a rebellion which was subdued, and he went into exile to Tartessos in Spain, where he became the court wizard of the senile and insane king Argantonios II. Lóchanâro used his position to coax the king into an alliance with Carthage and a war against the Commonwealth of the Elves, where his followers staged a second rebellion; after seven years of war, the Commonwealth collapsed, and Celtic warlords took over control over the British Isles. In the ATL, which doesn't have a handy name yet, Argantonios II dies of a stroke before the war starts, and his son, Argantonios III, dismisses Lóchanâro from his position as court wizard and extradites him to the Commonwealth, where Lóchanâro is tried for treason and imprisoned, and the Society for the Strengthening of Elvendom falters and splits into several factions which waste their resources on combating each other. The war does not happen, and the Commonwealth overcomes the social problems which had led to the rise of the Society (the main issue was the legal status of immigrant workers from the Continent). I have history in the Mediterranean proceed the way we know it with little changes, but in northwestern Europe, the Commonwealth of the Elves continues to prosper and starts influencing the cultures of neighbouring peoples, where similar states (democratic federations) develop, and Eaism (the Elvish religion) begins to displace pagan beliefs. Of course, eventually the Roman Empire clashes with the Eaist cultural sphere, which is technologically more advanced than Rome (the Elvish culture, through the combined effect of an emphasis on artisanship and science, and the absence of slavery, fosters the development of labour-saving devices), and utterly superior at sea. I think an equilibrium is eventually reached with a Limes Borealis running from somewhere near the mouth of the Loire through central Germany to the Danube near Regensburg. Eaism filters into the Roman Empire from the north, but is suppressed by the Roman authorities; the events concerning Jesus of Nazareth happen on schedule, and Joseph of Arimathea carries the gospel to the Elves. So we get Rosicrucianism in that timeline as well, and even bigger than in the UKW World. The Völkerwanderung is pretty much monkeywrenched by the presence of a rival centre of civilization in the northwest, but the Western Roman Empire collapses on schedule. With the Elves launching an industrial revolution based on renewable energy sources, the world speeds into modernity several centuries earlier. But things soon get pretty unpredictable. This means that I am pretty stuck with this project. What does this mean linguistically? The Old Albic language should develop in a different direction than the splinters of Albic in the LLL. The languages of the peoples of the Eaist cultural sphere in northwestern Europe would be heavily borrowing cultural vocabulary from Albic. For now, I prefer leaving both timelines alone, save for the city of Glastonbury in the UKW World, which I intend to develop as a model for realistic sustainable urban development. At any rate, there is still enough to do on Old Albic language and culture. -- ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf http://www.joerg-rhiemeier.de/Conlang/index.html Messages in this topic (1) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5a. Latest SpecGram: The Morphome Issue Posted by: "David Peterson" deda...@gmail.com Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 1:12 am ((PDT)) At the end of this month, there's going to be a workshop in Portugal dedicated entirely to the theoretical notion of the "morphome": http://www.uc.pt/uid/celga/workshop_morphome As a tribute, SpecGram decided to devote an entire issue to the morphome: http://specgram.com/CLX.1/ The morphome has come up here before, so I thought I'd share. (Not because I think this issue will clear anything up. Far, far from it, in fact.) -David ******************************************************************* "A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a." "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." -Jim Morrison http://dedalvs.com/ LCS Member Since 2007 http://conlang.org/ Messages in this topic (2) ________________________________________________________________________ 5b. Re: Latest SpecGram: The Morphome Issue Posted by: "Peter Bleackley" peter.bleack...@rd.bbc.co.uk Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 2:55 am ((PDT)) staving David Peterson: > At the end of this month, there's going to be a workshop in Portugal > dedicated entirely to the theoretical notion of the "morphome": > > http://www.uc.pt/uid/celga/workshop_morphome > > As a tribute, SpecGram decided to devote an entire issue to the > morphome: > > http://specgram.com/CLX.1/ > > The morphome has come up here before, so I thought I'd share. > (Not because I think this issue will clear anything up. Far, far from > it, in fact.) > "Morphome" appears to mean, "a morphological process that I don't understand". Pete Messages in this topic (2) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 6.1. Re: As the Actress Said to the Bishop Posted by: "Francois Remond" opinio...@free.fr Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 1:33 am ((PDT)) > For that matter, what do other natlangs and other varieties of English do? > French has a similar retort, but which seems a bit dated and not widely spread : "Comme disait la jeune mariée" ("as the young bride used to say") A few years ago, the radio comedian Daniel Morin used the line "Ca me rappelle une ex" (Reminds me of an ex[-girlfriend]) for similar humorous purpose. Messages in this topic (34) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/ <*> Your email settings: Digest Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/join (Yahoo! 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