Today, good: Made a drawing. My local SAQA group is putting together a show with the theme of "Fiber + Thread = Art" and I wanted to do something new, but had not a niggle of an idea. This loopy drawing is an idea. I used to make these kinds of drawings all the time, usually they were h-u-g-e and on the sidewalk in colored chalk.
Yesterday, bad: Worked some more on that story I mentioned glancingly the other day. (That kind of creative writing makes me headachy and cranky and not much fun to be around.)
Today, good: Read it over and it's not half bad. I know what I need to do to finish it and I think I can get it done this week during the hiatus from work. This is a massive departure from 'normal' -- I've barely begun, and haven't finished, any writing since 1999.
As some of you know, I've been collecting the word verification words with the idea of creating a kind of language, or at least some blog slang. I have 67, I'm aiming for a list of 200.
I have a list of interrogatives:
(I may rethink these so that they all end with an "i")
scoli = who
ossesc = what
morti = when
pinen = where
ofierti = why
tayla = how
And a catch-all courtesy word, calat, which I like using to mean please and thank you, hello and goodbye. Dinah asked for a word to mean "blogging buddies" and I suggested eringla -- which she deemed "splendid" and immediately put to use. Beyond that I've been sorting things into categories depending on whether something has the feel of a noun or an adjective, or if it suggests a way it might be conjugated (tosipsyp) as a verb. The challenge has been to avoid sound-alike associations, ersads for ersatz, and thinking of everything as an exclamation: Oboli! One of my students was studying linguistics and she gave me a list of core words, words that express fundamental and necessary concepts across a wide range of languages, such as water, me, you, mother, father, etc that I think will be helpful with this project. So buff up your thinking caps -- when I have 200 WVs it's Rosetta stone time.
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5 comments:
You're definitely into some schrog here, and it would appear, a growing interest from the wider eringla, or is it just this in-between time of the year with people looking for some diversion? :o)
I was going to ask yesterday about the Moby Dick Project but didn't like to put you on the spot!
wv: schrog (which must mean something)
ooh. "schrog" has many possibilities. I can't speak for the motivation behind the interest from the eringla, but I do know that I have some odd ideas of what makes a good time. Hey! kids! let's make a grammar!
upransa, my croft, upransa.
calat, kifinsir, exclar.
[thanks, my old friend, go well]
I think this is picking up speed, Melanie! I am saving possible inclusions from various other blogs.
Here are some:
pitiogyb
pectecap
ayara
subilma
malises
hesses (I think we had a hessi somewhere?)
sedrem
and today's: ochiesur
Well done on the writing! I just don't have the "feel" for it these days. I keep hoping it will return, but...
what a neat doodle! definitely looks like it would be fun to do some threadplay around it!
wv:theas
(kifinsir looks like a formal way of referring to Jackie's Kiffir cat!)
Yes, Dinah, "hessi" is on the list. With "hesses," that's gathering speed toward verbhood, I think: hess, hessi, hesses
Thanks, quiltcat. I'm wondering if I want to do machine stitching (i just bought a fancy new machine) or hand work -- maybe some sashiko?
It should be fun, either way.
wv: anesawa
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