Weird Word List: Bowing to Reality

Edited to Add:  I'm seeing people volunteering (thank you!) and asking questions.  I also see that we may have a list already to work from.  I'm going to be in and out for the rest of the day; I'll try to keep up with the question-answering part and get back to the larger discussion tomorrow morning. So -- not ignoring you if I don't answer right away.  Thanks again!

OK.  It seems to me, from perusing the previous discussions, that we have lots of volunteers for Harvesting, but not so many folks want to Wrangle.  No blame to any of us — you see me saying I got no time to Wrangle Weird Words, right? — it’s a massive job.

Which means that we will need to go, with Great Trepidation on the part of the Luddite Writer, to a software sort.  We had several volunteers for this — if whomever is still interested in playing would shout out again, in response to this message, we can all put our heads together to see how best to split up the books.

I will still need at least one, and preferably three Wranglers, because, let’s face it, that’s a BIG pile o’novels over there, and some — I’m looking at you, Crystal books — are harder going than others.

The Wish List now looks like this:

1.  Automagicians

2.  Wranglers

3.  Cabana boy

The goal, one more time:  A list of Weird Words (including all “foreign” words, be they Liaden, Terran, Delgadan, Vandese, or etc.), and  Names (including ship names, planet names, city names, personal names) for each book.  One book = One list. In the order the words appear.

Someone had asked if I also wanted odd combos, such as “brother-cousin” or “close-kin” or “Silain-luthia”.  Of the examples given, the only pairing I would want would be “Silain-luthia” because Silain has the possibility of becoming I-dare-not-guess and luthia — is an invented word.

Why do I want this?  You guys have been so good about putting up with my fidgeting and fussing over this, you deserve the straight dope.

I want these lists, and in this particular format, for two reasons.

Reason One:  The Liaden Pronunciation Guide Steve and I have been talking about Forever.

Reason Two:   A bunch of Liaden books are going to be produced as audiobooks, RSN.  We have promised — actually, given what happened with poor Mr. Shanks — we have insisted that we will provide pronunciation assistance.  It is Reason Two that produces the deadline.

Worries:  I am particularly concerned that names stay together — Val Con yos’Phelium, Shan yos’Galan and etc.  This is the major need for the Word Wranglers.  I’m not so worried about bizarre English words sneaking into the list, because, if they’re that bizarre, they belong on the list.

. . .I think that’s it.

OK — who’s in?

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There are no transformations; there are only Disappears and Appears

Today, April 12, 2012, is Silversocks’ sixth birthday.  He’s celebrating by sleeping in all of Mozart’s favorite spots.

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Yesterday became a run-around the countryside day, which, ohghod, we needed so much.  I did get the annual mammogram (did you get yours?), and Mr. Smith graciously did a Full Vehicle Alignment on Binjali.  We went to Sam’s Club and took on supplies.  Previous to that, we went to Staples and I bought a Targus stylus, which makes navigating the web with Cygnus very much easier.  Yes.  Yes, we are Wild and Crazy, I admit it.

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I made an error in the to-do list, the stories for the upcoming Liaden Universe® short story collects are due in May 2012 (that’s next month!) and August 2012 (that’s, umm, soon!)  Good thing I was thinking about getting to them early, huh?

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It looks like the live-on-location scheme has a chance of coming to pass.  Step One, which ought to have been, yanno, Step Four or Five, has already been accomplished, because that’s how we roll. We don’t call this place the Confusion Factory for nothin’, you know.

We’ll be moving on Step Two, which ought to have been Step One, on Saturday, looks like.  Fingers crossed, fingers crossed…

 

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.