Restless on the con floor

[baxil]

To expand on a comment I tweeted earlier about Pantheacon being an adjustment:

Every con has its flavor. Compared to scifi/regional/general cons, furry cons are a lot more hands-on and close-knit, because a much higher proportion of the fandom is creators and there's a much more DIY aesthetic than with fans of various flavors of traditional media.

Comments

[krinndnz]

That last phrase - it looks like creatively-Romanized Greek to me? Does that thought lead anywhere useful?

Have fun at the con - it's interesting to hear this report, since I've been to only 3 kinds of cons (furry, gaming, homeschooling).

[circuit_four]

There are some con-badge ribbons floating around with the phrase "ouk gnosko touto legei." This is wholly unGoogleable and the ribbon owners I've asked don't know either (just took it because it sounded cool). Anyone want to win a bunch of Baxil points and solve that mystery?

*stares daggers at you*

Well, there goes the rest of MY evening.

Asshole.

( I'll let you know what I find. ;D )

[circuit_four]

Attempt 1: "Touto legei" is indisputably Greek -- judging by the hits I'm getting, Modern Greek. Will convert to Greek letters as best I can and see what I get outta Babelfish.

[circuit_four]

"This it says."

[circuit_four]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BF%E1%BD%90

[jenett]

It's Greek. My Greek is very rusty, but...

Ouk = not
gnosko = knowledge - I think this may be the verb, because it's not matching any declensions I can rustle up. If it is, it's first person. (I know, or in this case, I don't know.)
touto = 'these things' (either nominative or accusative singular: hard to tell from the transliteration, but I think accusative)
legei = he/she/it says (third person singular)

Accusative case means it's the object of the verb, the 'these things' is. The 'not' modifies the first part of the clause, and Greek conventionally puts the main verb at the end of the sentence, so to speak.

Thus, my best guess is something along the lines of "He/she/it says I know nothing." (do not know these things.)

I'm sort of unhappy about my theory about the declensions, but I can't see anything else that fits better.

[circuit_four]

I'll defer to you on this, since you have experience with Greek and I absolutely don't, but given the context... any chance it means something like "I know not what it says?"

[sashajwolf]

I think it's supposed to mean that, but has been written by someone who doesn't know Greek.

[circuit_four]

That sounds... very plausible. :)

Experience sharing

[baxil]

Now that you mention it, you're right that a lot of the panels at sci-fi cons are geared toward writers (or other creators). I think that's at the heart of the selection bias here. My primary skiffy con is BayCon, where I have been working newsletter (truly a full-time job) for over a decade, so I spend a lot of the con either holed up in newsletter room, covering the big-ticket events, or socializing in the halls/room parties. Even though I don't work FurCon, I tend to stick to the same patterns

[makhsihed]

I'm jealous. I've been wanting to go to Pcon for several years now. One of these years... when I have a different job... and vacation time... and travel money that isn't getting spent on House Kheperu's gather or Kemetic Orthodoxy's new year... x.x

[baxil]

Yeah, it can be tough to juggle the different events that all beg for travel, time and money. Though I went to the Denver Dragon Gather 10+ years ago, I've never actually been to a convention outside California/Washington. It doesn't help that for most of my adult life I've been in a job (tech support/small newspaper pagination) that doesn't leave a lot of spare money, demands a lot of strange hours, and makes it difficult to schedule time off.

[makhsihed]

Huh! There was a dragon gather here in Denver? How neat~

I only know one dragon-person locally (I know a few more back in Ohio), but she's one of my closer friends. Also the most draconic person I've ever met. (Very Western dragon.)