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| What's up? Friendly greetings! :) | | What's up? Friendly greetings! :) |
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| I think everyone should have a section like this to build the liklihood that their stuff gets noticed, gets attributed, and their interest flourishes through contacts.
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| My real life name is Lawrence J. Rogers
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| My e-mail is roger158 at msu.edu for the next year (About August 2009).
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| Ad perpetua (until something happens), my permanent e-mail is little_l_jrjr at yahoo.com .
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| I have this Group for Marc Okrand's Atlantean language:
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| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atlantean_language/
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| I use it like a blog sometimes. Use it to track me down.
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| My Wikipedia account is also Epigraphist and can be accessed throught the "Atlantean language" page and my edits there-to.
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| If all that fails, just search my name around the Internet and see if you can find me. I shouldn't ever be that hard to track down. If so, contact friends. Even resort to Facebook (but make your intention clear in your messages to me).
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| [["Why You'd Want to Track Me Down" :D]]
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| I'd probably be interested in a constructed language you're interested in, or some related topic.
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| Tonight I am going to move my Atlantean language article from Wikipedia to here for safe-keeping and distribution. If you look into it very far, you'll figure the entire thing out. Just please keep a low profile.
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| See, to give you the short of it, I was a mild-mannered high school Freshman-Sophomore when I got some freak prize trip to Europe singing Baritone in an International Choir ( 2001 Blue Lake International Choral and Brass Ensemble ). I had a real difficult time trying to learn German and I gave up after a year and let it slide.
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| But then I got to use it in Europe and there was this whole world that opened up.
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| Then, later that summer, my Dad and I went to see "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and that blew my interest in ancient writing systems and languages right open. Its references to ancient Near Eastern mythology, Pre-Columbian civilizations, and the like was a whizz-bang combination of everything I'd been secretly studying in the library on my own for years. I was enthralled! So I picked up "The Atlantean Alphabet" then in wide distribution and memorized it through using it to write English in my journals and other compositions. It wasn't until Fall 2006 that I hit the Internet in search of people also interested in the Alphabet. I spent the intervening 4 years engrossed in a truely long and arduous research of what eventually became all world writing systems that have ever existed (it sounds more impressive than it actually is: most used today are either Latin-based (like ours), Cryllic-based (based on Greek and some "weird stuff"), or endless variations on the proto-Brahmi script. And then, aside from some (usually politically charged) outliers (Ge'ez, Japanese, Canadian syllabics), everything else is Chinese. But, in the past, there was DIVERSITY. And that's where I went.
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| So eventually I decided to dedicate my life's work to it.
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| But before that I made the switch from writing systems to languages (which, somehow, most people don't understand the difference between). It was (I don't remember) at least a year before Summer 2006 when I studied under the warm and charitable (most linguists ARE NOT) Dr. Victoria Bergval. Maybe it was all along that I deepened my concern for languages. But I think slowly.
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| Her class really did it for me! That Winter I researched the language behind the Atlantean Alphabet, a language I was only vaguely aware of or even cared for. I was probably Latin at the time, being interested in learning Greek and Hebrew as well. Well, I found this shell of a fanbase for the entire series, looming like over-grown ruins covered with mysterious glyphs and mysterious lore. From which, I'm finding, most people walk away.
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| I looked at the (here begins metaphor) tools and notes left behind previous excavators and archaeologists and decided that they had all left on the verge of a major break-through. And finding something world-shaking (exaggggeration!) was just around the corner.
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| And it was.
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| So I spent my Christmas Break (and lots of Finals Weeks' study breaks) deciphering the language Marc Okrand created and writing books and notes on it, including dictionaries and grammars.
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| This combination, Atlantean writing and Atlantean language, furnished me in their study with everything I know about writing systems and languages. Along with a life-long career and passion. And other good things.
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| I've been returning to the project on and off in the past 1.5 years. And I'm right now on the verge of the 2nd break-through. This time, all the words (327) have been diligently collected from all known or referenced major sources and perhaps most of the minor ones. Now, it's dicipherment-time, but this time without English glosses. I have to go straight to the base languages (mostly Proto-Indo-European roots). Check out the site, consider learning the language. Maybe see the movie first. For me, it really has become not about the movie but about the underlying languages. But I secretly become attached to the movie, too.
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| In the meantime I got a taste of many dead and living languages from the most diverse of language families, learned Latin, more German, and a bit of French to go with my Atlantean. I also finished my BS in Humanities, tried Anthro then Geological Engineering ("I'm gonna have to say '(for the) money' "-Vinnie from the movie, and rejected it in disgust), made a whole bunch of baby conlangs, and switched last Summer to a BA in Linguistics at some huge non-engineering university away from the Great White North and its Endless Woods.
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| I arrived by then at wanting to devote my life to the study of 8 pictographic logo-phonetic writing systems and "their people", culture, and everything. The emmensely kind Dr. Grover Hudson, who took me under his wing and taught me [[Ge'ez]], directed me to choose one as a focus and then maybe some elements of it as a real focus.
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| I'm chosing Shang-era Bronze and Oracle Bone Scripts, the oldest writing of the Chinese Family of Scripts. And (this time), not for the money. (It's just more linguo- and scripto- typologically exotic. And, unlike its contender in such matters, Mayan, writes on a diversity of topics and feeds into an extensive literature. And they still use it!!! Isn't that wild?
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| SO, that's my life story.
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| [[Intended Activity on the Group]]
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| After copying the whole thing, I'll probably leave for a while. I have a bunch of conlangs that I should post. (LangMaker.Com, when will you return and give us rest?) Please contact me if you're intersted in pictogrpahic or logo- syllabo-phonetic writing systems like Ancient Egyptian, Mayan, or Luwian. Or you have some other project I could collaborate on, I really want to get involved in stuff with other people.
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| Soon I'll be ordering ALL the stuff for Klingon and learning that. Despite some protests from the (now dying) group, I want to develop a suitable logo-phonetic system for the langauge as it exists in their Okrandian 1984 distopia (double play on words) and then use the (apparently VERY easy, no joke, well for me at least...French is torture after Latin...too easy...) learned language to communicate with them and create whatever art I want with it.
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| Then it's on for more French, Mandarin, and Classical Chinese, etc., until I journey to the center of the Shang Scripts.
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| [[User:Epigraphist|Epigraphist]] 07:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
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