Announcements

• Suzette is writing a new novel -- no title yet. The protagonist is a linguist from the U.S. Corps of Linguists [USCOL] who has failed some of her finals and has been ordered, as a penalty, to do fieldwork on -- and write a monograph about -- four ET languages spoken on the planet Gaudalle. One of the first things linguists do to prepare for fieldwork with a language is put together a core-vocabulary list [traditionally called a "Swadesh list"] for it, roughly one hundred words long. Which means that before Suzette could write the novel she had to do one of those lists for each of the languages: Thandi; Lenadess; Aubre; and Nangdi. And here they are, starting with a Panglish list to serve as the key.... click here for the core vocabulary.
• Thanks to the hard work and the technical skills of Jackie Powers, there's now a new Láadan website. [Láadan is the language I constructed for the Native Tongue trilogy.] Everything Láadan is there, including the first ten lessons of my new Láadan For Beginners, all about fans and a dragon who are going to a science fiction convention. The dictionaries -- Láadan to English, English to Láadan -- are there. All the links to other Láadan webpages are there. I'll be writing regular blogposts for the site, but because I'm in such disarray at the moment the first four of those posts will be items I've already done here at LiveJournal -- done long enough ago to be new to most readers. Jackie and I would be pleased to have feedback from you about the new site, and about the Láadan For Beginners course. The URL is http://www.LaadanLanguage.org.
• New 2009 edition of the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
• Suzette will be at Conestoga in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the July 25, 2008 weekend.
• 25 March 2008: Schedule Update: Arkansas Literary Festival, April 4-6, 2008
• 3 March 2008: March/April 2008 issues of Linguistics & Science Fiction Newsletter and The Verbal Self-Defense Newsletter [printer-friendly]
• 11 February 2008: The Interview Page of the Clarion Workshop at UC San Diego Interviews Suzette Haden Elgin
• 9 January 2008: New online fiction: "Death and Taxes," Challenging Destiny #25, December 2007
• 3 October 2007: Schedule Update
• 25 September 2007: The Communipaths, Book One in the Coyote Jones Series, is now available online at jackiepowers.com
• 15 August 2007: Schedule update
• 24 July 2007: Podcast, Conestoga 2006
• 4 June 2007: Schedule update
• 22 May 2007: Excerpt from the Readers' Guide to Twenty-One Novel Poems
• 16 May 2007: Twenty-One Novel Poems, Science Fiction Poetry
• 1 February 2007: Notes On Adding To The Láadan Vocabulary [offsite link]
• 4 October 2006: New Láadan dictionary links
• 14 August 2006: FSF Wiki: Láadan Working Group [offsite link]
• 9 April 2006: Schedule Update
• 21 September 2005: Science Fiction Poetry Handbook home page
• 28 August 2005: The Sad Fate of Coyote Jones
• 19 May 2005: A story for children: "A Quorum of Grandmothers"
• 18 May 2005: Schedule update
• 21 January 2005: Science Fiction Poetry Handbook announced for March 2005
• 26 October 2004: "We Have Always Spoken Panglish," a new story at SciFiction. (Now available at Suzette Haden Elgin's website.)
• 29 July 2004: Weblog on line. [offsite link]
• 26 July 2004: Schedule update
• 9 July 2004: Gentle Art of Self-Defense seminar at Conestoga 8, 17 July 2004.
• 20 February 2004: Updated bibliography (plain text)
• 9 August 2003: Peacetalk 101: audiocassette or CD
• 25 June 2003: Working with Peacetalk 101 [offsite link]
• 15 June 2003: Láadan Vocabulary Update, June 2003
• 6 April 2003: Peacetalk 101 Newsletter
• 23 February 2003: Peacetalk 101 Weblog [suspended for technical work]
• 17 January 2003: Peacetalk 101 home page
• 12 January 2003: Láadan Made Easier, Lesson Two
• October 2002: The Native Tongue trilogy home page: Native Tongue, Judas Rose, Earthsong, Láadan; excerpts, FAQs, and Questions & Topics for Discussion
• Poetry
• Schedule
• Real World Linguistics Course: Index
• "Metaphor in Mediation: Mediation is a What?" [off-site link]
• Láadan Made Easier -- Lesson One
• Interview at Absolute Write [off-site link]
• Suzette's verbal self-defense site has been moved: http://adrr.com/aa is the new URL.
• The Ozark Trilogy home page
• The Language Imperative home page