[LMB] Micro-mini-Loiscon at Ad Astra

[B. Ross Ashley]

And that was late last night and I got the panels conflated ... we met 
at the next panel, on linguistics, which indeed included Shirley, but 
not Lara or Cory; rather, the other panelists included James Allen 
Gardner, Tony Pi, and moderator Karin Lowachee. Great discussion of 
forming alien names, the varieties of colour-naming conventions and how 
to write down a foreign language to make it alien-looking but 
pronounceable. (I have finally heard the name of "Shkai'ra mek Kermak's 
kin" pronounced correctly! I'm afraid I'm never going to be able to 
reproduce the !Kung-style click represented by the apostrophe accurately 
two times running. But I still love six-foot blonde barbarian lesbian 
swordspersons, doesn't everybody?)

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:00:26 -0500, I wrote:

 > After a day and a half wandering around sort of desultorily
 > looking for each other, Elizabeth and I finally met at the
 > fanfiction panel this afternoon. Enjoyable discussion,
 > with Juliegroupie Lara Herrera, Cory Doctorow and Shirley
 > Meier on the panel. We then adjourned to the Lobby
 > Bar where we had an expensive coffee while her ride turned up.
 > Great seeing you, Elizabeth!

 > No pics of you, though. Maybe next year.
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