I don't think it matters. And it conatins more than english doesn't it? its the undercurrent under it?Ii think that it is better left to our imagination, and that way we can all hear it as soething else. personally I think it would sound like a beautuiful series of sounds, that run together almsot like singing, with like unseen echoes. dunno what you think.

did she mean that when she said what? *is ocnfused* oh well, i've managed to catch up with all the posts that have happened since friday, except todays, which i answer tomarrow, so i'm off! gotta love the email digest of posts...*cheers*

Yeah, I agree with Fred. It has to sound beautiful or the World(S) wouldn't listen, would they? I kinda hear it like bells and really nice sounds, not necesarily words... I don't know, it's hard to explain.


"You're the one who says books have to be heavy cause the whole world's inside them."
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

what does grenfelzing mean?

When one knows not/
Ask another/
When that other knows a lot/
Don't teach it to your brother
-me-
What I ment is ask the person in charge

who's the person in charge?

[edited to delete needless quoting. You also want to watch the one-liners, there, KK. --kli]

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maxxrox: don't know... and if you mean who's in charge of the site, that would be DD. I mean, it IS her site...Though you might have quicker responces talking to one of her admins. *is happy to note i seem to have avoided a one liner myself*

what is an admin and how do you talk to one?

maxxrox, i like your signature

Kaila, we have two admins on this board: Diane Duane, and Lee Enfield-Burke. You can send them e-mail, but they're both very busy and may not have time to reply to email or private messages.

You can also go to the official chat (the next one is this Saturday) and ask DD questions directly.

There are also two moderators on this board. Me, and Peter Murray. We have much more limited powers on this board than the admins, but we're generally a bit more available to answer questions about the board, and to point out netiquette things, like that the maximum length of sigs on this board is six lines including blank lines and separators; and that you want to avoid posting one-liners. The Board FAQ is a good resource for checking these things out, too.

thank you for your help. i'm really sorry about the one liners and the signature, i'll change that ammediatly. sorry again everyone.

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what is an admin and how do you talk to one?

to answer the other part of the question, they're administraters. They basically take care of the site, add forums, delete topics...stuff like that.

admin are the equivilent of janiters at our schools. (sorry, sorry, couldn't resist poking fun at them in subtle ways. ok. that's not subtle.) No, they are people. who have power.

Dai Stiho Cousins! What are we talking about again? This is getting weird. The conversation just went from the speech, to admins being janitors. What happened? *yawns* anyone have any advice on programming a weird computer? Mine starts up at midnight and types by itself.

Is the logo on the computer like the Apple logo, but without the bite taken out of it?

I think "dai" means "go" and "stiho" (accent on the "o") means "well", judging by how it's translated. But as I understand the Speech, every species that uses it has its own way of representing it so that they are physically capable of speaking it (grinding sounds, leaves rustling, lips-tongue-teeth-larynx, scents, whatever) but it's understandable by anyone who knows the Speech. Except if you don't know enough vocabulary; it's constantly changing (language of Life itself, so it makes sense that it's alive) and has a lot of technical vocabulary and special tenses to represent concepts non-wizards don't use much. I think it's only the technical vocabulary that I've ever seen actually written in the books, besides "dai" and "dai stiho". In one book, it's mentioned that some of the symbols used in the Speech are similar to symbols in calculus and higher math.

In risk of a one-liner, which book is that? I've read all the youngwizard series, but nothing pops out to me at the moment. *hey, lookey there, I didn't do a one liner :-)*

GwenLeo: Yes. See the logo on the Errantry Concordance pages - or the actual page about the logo. (Note: This is a wiki that only DD is allowed to edit, apart from user pages.]

DD's own comment on dai stihó is here.

W.I.T.: Mrs Callahan looks at what Nita's writing at the beginning of Dilemma and the comment about calculus/higher math comes from there.

to GwenLeo, Very well put. I agree totally. And about the Apple logo, yeah, from what I've concluded, it looks just like that, but I still don't understand why. maybe so it doesn't look so conspicuous to non-wizards.As put in How wizardry workson this website,"Most non-wizards never notice wizardry. Who in the "real world" wastes time believing in the unbelievable?"

I was just thinking about the apple stuff. As i understand it, wizardry is very visual; writing down the speech and then seeing it manifest itself when spoken etc. Now Apple computers are known for their visual capabilities [I might be talking rubbish here so dont that any of this as fact, just a theory] and are known to be much better at using graphics than a normal computer. So would'ant the apple in that case be a better format/type of computer to use??
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To kk( in risk of another one-liner); Like you quoted, "there are no accidents". Wish mine did that, but it probobaly knows not to try nothin' around my mom. She'd freak! Example of how my mom would look: (he he-he hah hah )