MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2103 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Newbie, ahoy *yawns and falls over* by "Reisha Stormsinger" 2) Re: to mindspeak or not to mindspeak that is the question by "John Bratton" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 01:12:51 GMT From: "Reisha Stormsinger" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Newbie, ahoy *yawns and falls over* Message-ID: <19991008011252.29907.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com> And let it be knownest that 7 am es an unholy time to be awake. Anyhoo. 'm Meia, writer-wannabe of the many characters, no few of which are writercidal. Used ta be on th'list, wiph unsuspectin' forces booting me off f'r some reason, just decided to get back on f'r fun. Ai... um.... draw, read, draw, draw, write, and draw. All of which done badly, except maybe the case of the reading, but then again, I probably shouldn't read with a flashlight (Room lights are broken. *sweatdrop*) Am a fan of anime, yesh, 'specially Gundam Wing, RurouKen an' Slayers, an' et's prolly a given that I'm a fan of Mercedes Lackey's books. Y'ken find me on IRC, in DALnet, residing in... uh... #valdemar, #fantasy, #afd, #finalfantasy, #anime4ever, #animevivo, #, an' #gryphonguild Or Espernet, I may be in #elw_dimension. Or whatever-that-network-was, th'place which elfwood's chat channel resides, I'll be in #lothlorien :P Ah, the wonders of multiservering pirch I'm a terrible procrastinator, and have a bad habit of writing unfinished snippets, which gets the horde pretty mad. *yawns again and ducks a brick* They tend to like slinging bricks about. Meet Lady Harken, Kahn, Khra, Kihm, Jess, Sky1, Sky2, chibi's Zel, Lina, Xel, not forgetting Star, Kris, Dev, Reisha, Sue, and Kuragaki. (All characters (c) their owners, whomever they may be) Um. Yeah, thats about all, ah guess. ~Meia, keeper of the horde Proud cuddler of the Duo plushie Obsessed fangirl (WAIII~~ZERUGADIS-KUUN~~) Upholder of the Guild's insanity (Per banana creme pie et sapientaa?) "First, there was nothing. Then God said "LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!!" Then... there was still nothing, but at least you could see it." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 19:01:05 GMT From: "John Bratton" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: to mindspeak or not to mindspeak that is the question Message-ID: <19991008190108.36561.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com> From: B10nd31-+AT+-aol.com Reply-To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk To: yon_asvaldson-+AT+-hotmail.com Subject: Re: to mindspeak or not to mindspeak that is the question Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:53:03 +0100 (BST) In a message dated 07/10/99 05:36:25 GMT Daylight Time, rachelsch-+AT+-mindspring.com writes: << I'm pretty sure that in either Owlflight or Owlsight it's stated that there isn't a language barrier, but I could be wrong about where I saw that. It would make sense that it's some kind of pure communication, especially as folks like the dyheli or kyree don't speak but communicate quite clearly through Mindspeech, wouldn't it? Or am I way off base and need to go to bed? :-) --Rachel >> I believe Rachel's right, I tend to think of it like computers, their all use binary and can recongise ascii. I mean take the internet, people can communicate with each other, even if one is using a PC and the other a MAC. I think in Storm Breaking they go into it bit more when talking about the Teleson device they find in Urtho's tower but my book not here so i can't quate it. Davey Actually Rachel is right, Mindspeech was used by the king stag of the dyheli to break the language barrier. He could communicate with both the Valdemarians, and the Hawkbrothers. Also, in Owlsight, when the young untrained Healer girl (pardon me, I am bad with names) was being trained at first, the Trondi'irn used mindspeech to speak with her because they didn't know each others language. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2103 **********************************