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Ripples in the Sea of People
conlangs
[ linguavore ] |
4th June, 2012. 1:59 pm. Glad to be here - An Introduction
Hi folks! I just set up an LJ account for my current conlang Siye under the name ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.3) linguavore - I want to have it ironed out by Labor Day and ChiCon7. Sorry about the IPA-less posts - I deliberately chose an orthography that was easy to type. I'll be posting as the days pass, but the summary of Siye is this: an SOV, mixed ergative language, agglutinative with mild polysynthesis, aspectual and animacy distinctions, a vowel dominance hierarchy, directionals, applicatives, and enough suppletive verb forms to drive a learner insane. The next post will be on nouns and the six grammatical numbers (null, singular, dual, paucal, plural, and pantic).
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| drbartle_atom |
4th June, 2012. 12:00 am. Art Collection #3
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2012/QBlog040612A.html
A couple of weeks ago, I showed you the Liz Danforth drawing I have on the bedroom wall. In the picture of it, you could see it was hanging above another artwork by Christina Wald, which I said I'd maybe blog about later.
Now is that later.
So, here's the piece in question:
It looks a bit weird here because I scanned it instead of photographing it and there's some odd reflections. However, hopefully you can see that it's the original artwork for a card from a collectible card game, Dragon Storm. The game appeared in 1996 when a wave of new collectible card games were trying to get a piece of the Magic: the Gathering pie. Dragon Storm was differentiated by its glossy, high-quality cards and the fact that the artists got more of a cut than those of M:TG apparently did. It wasn't the success its developers hoped it would be, but unlike most of its peers it's still available (indeed, version 2.0 was launched last year).
I like game-related art, so I went to GenCon 1996 with the intention of buying some artwork for a CCG — expressly not M:TG as that would be too expensive. Because Dragon Age had the nicest cards and the nicest people trying to sell those cards, that's what I chose. I was never going to play the game itself because I knew as soon as I read the rules of M:TG that CCGs came with rip-off levels of expense. I bought this particular card because of the ones that were available for sale, I liked it the most. It cost me $25. My guess is that if I were to sell it today, it could fetch as much as $25.
On the back of the frame, I have another copy of the card; this one is signed by the artist. I also have an unopened starter deck of Dragon Age cards just waiting to be worth a fortune once the game finally takes off.
It must be great to be able to paint.
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| officialgaiman |
4th June, 2012. 1:27 am. Graduation, and further commencement fall-out...
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/06/graduation-and-further-commencement.html posted by Neil
Today, Maddy, my youngest daughter, graduated from High School. I was asked if I'd like to deliver the address, but declined. I wanted to be a dad, and sit in the audience with my family and beam proudly, and wander around taking photographs afterwards of Maddy and all her friends. And that's what I did. It was great.
When I started this blog, she was six.
I love you Maddy Gaiman, and am so proud of you.
Soon there will be nothing keeping me in the midwest except inertia, and this is where my stuff is. And my bees. I'm hoping to spend more time on the West Coast with my two older children, and much much much more time on the East Coast with my wife, when she finishes her 2013 world tour, at any rate.
In the meantime, I'm reposting this cartoon. You'll need to click on it to read it at its home page, as the way Blogger software is set up these days does not agree with it, and I can't get it readable here. It's from http://zenpencils.com/comic/50-neil-gaiman-make-good-art/ It's by Gavin Aung Than, and I hope I get to thank him personally for doing it the next time I'm in Melbourne. He's taken a bit from the middle of my UArts commencement speech and made it into a comic.
The speech has been, I was bewildered to learn, viewed over 335,000 times on Vimeo, and is now captioned in English, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish at http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/IOH3jJ6INIof/info/neil-gaiman-addresses-the-university-of-the-arts-class-of-2012/ . It's still in its original vanilla form at http://vimeo.com/42372767. And it's even crept onto YouTube -- which may be useful for people in countries that have blocked Vimeo.
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| drbartle_atom |
3rd June, 2012. 12:00 am. Dancing and Jiving
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2012/QBlog030612A.html
You know the Abba song, Dancing Queen? It contains the lines:
You can dance, you can ji-ive,
Having the time of your li-i-ife.
Unfortunately, until I had an argument with my younger daughter yesterday, I thought it went:
You can dance, you can da-ance,
Having the time of your li-i-ife
I must have heard that song hundreds of times. I was certain it was da-ance, even after listening to it having been told it was ji-ive. The collective opinion of the Internet supported my daughter, though, so I conceded defeat. Damn it, though, I'd have bet the house on da-ance.
I blame the fact that jive and life rhyme in a Swedish accent but not in mine...
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[ e_magdalena ] |
2nd June, 2012. 8:27 am. Hello!
Hi! I've been following this community for awhile now, and just recently decided to join. I've been conlanging for years, but didn't have a word for it until a few months ago. So far, I have five that are large enough to warrent their own Word document, but I have half a dozen others that only have a few basic phrases in them. ("Hello" "Goodbye" "How are you?" etc.) My biggest one that I have is called Alumnian. To start off I'd like to share some basic greetings and such.
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Current mood:  optimistic.
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