Expanding on Deborah's question about how this group works... Should I pick from the group members at random to send something to? Or is there someone here with a particular fancy towards the Mad Hatter? Are we all mad here?! ha! :)
I received your Alice, too! (And wanted to scan and show it exactly the way you did here :-) )
Thank you so much, Katerina, it is wonderful, well done!
I enjoyed exploring the mental floss site, about words and many more strange and amazing things. Wish I had more time to kill. And better memory: there was a word for killing time that I cannot remember. This remind me that I need a word to mean ' a person who is not a mail artist'. Something like the word 'muggler' for a non magician in Harry Potter. Can anybody help? I have been thinking about this for ages and cannot come up with anything. Perhaps we should ask Humpty Dumpty.
In reply to Mail Art Martha, who writes "This remind me that I need a word to mean 'a person who is not a mail artist'. Something like the word 'muggler' for a non magician in Harry Potter. Can anybody help? I have been thinking about this for ages and cannot come up with anything. Perhaps we should ask Humpty Dumpty."
Thank you, Mail Art Martha, for the wonderful adventure of Ali Khat and Vermina Rat in Alice's wonder world. I received it well last month, and I will be posting it the coming week on my real weird animals blog.
Ail Artist, appeals to me. Ail as in suffering of course as this person (who is an Artist but not a Mail Artist) suffers from being incomplete as an Artist, lacking Mail Artistness. As it is considered that everybody is an Artist the term Ail Artist can be extended to everybody who does not exercises Mail Artisting, whether this person is considered an artist or not.
Thanks Heleen, years of search have come to the end.
As we are multilingual in this group, how about, for the French version Artiste Ostal, for the Spanish Artista Ostal, for the Italian Artista Ostale, for the German Ail-Künstler , for the Swahili ... please somebody stop me1
I think you can use the pre-word 'ost' for all ail artists in whose language 'mail' means 'post'.
In German a Mail Artist is a Post Künstler, so an Ail Artist will be an Ost Künstler, 'Ost' here not to be confused with the meaning 'East' but with the abbreviation of the Latin word 'ostium' which means 'opening', and an opening, although some'thing' which brings us to new places and/or insights, also is something without a 'thing', a piece of nothing.
I mentioned the German version, to point at the possibly misunderstanding of mixing Ost and east; for the other languages which use the Latin alphabet, the word for Ail Artist can start with ost- anyway.
So in Dutch an 'ostkunstenaar', in Spanish indeed an Artista Ostal, etcetera.
I think you're right about the Xhosa pronounciation. Fortunately there is no x or ' in the word for (m)ail artist, as these letters/sounds are very hard to pronounce for non-native speakers. (there is an awesome movie in which a xhosa speaking man is the main character. Something about a cola bottle, a long journey and a coup d'etat - I think you should see it - if you don't know it already. I loved it even more than the movies about Alice (not sure if I may say that in this group..))
Deborah Goedhart
Feb 11, 2016
Jorgia Jacobs
Expanding on Deborah's question about how this group works... Should I pick from the group members at random to send something to? Or is there someone here with a particular fancy towards the Mad Hatter? Are we all mad here?! ha! :)
Mar 4, 2016
Melissa Wand
Curiouser and Curiouser...
Apr 4, 2016
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
The Mad Mad World of Alice...through the looking glass :-)
we may send to anyone or all in the group as we wish !
Oct 2, 2016
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Glad the altered Yoko Ono card has arrived, Ti Ar!
Oct 11, 2016
Heleen de Vaan
Thank you so much, Katerina, it is wonderful, well done!
Oct 12, 2016
Melissa Wand
I got the "Yoko Ono Behind the Curtain" card too. Thanks Katerina, very clever!
Oct 13, 2016
Mail Art Martha
I enjoyed exploring the mental floss site, about words and many more strange and amazing things. Wish I had more time to kill. And better memory: there was a word for killing time that I cannot remember. This remind me that I need a word to mean ' a person who is not a mail artist'. Something like the word 'muggler' for a non magician in Harry Potter. Can anybody help? I have been thinking about this for ages and cannot come up with anything. Perhaps we should ask Humpty Dumpty.
Nov 24, 2017
Mail Art Martha
Dec 20, 2017
Heleen de Vaan
In reply to Mail Art Martha, who writes "This remind me that I need a word to mean 'a person who is not a mail artist'. Something like the word 'muggler' for a non magician in Harry Potter. Can anybody help? I have been thinking about this for ages and cannot come up with anything. Perhaps we should ask Humpty Dumpty."
An Ail Artist ?
or an Ail Tist ?
Jan 14, 2018
Heleen de Vaan
Thank you, Mail Art Martha, for the wonderful adventure of Ali Khat and Vermina Rat in Alice's wonder world. I received it well last month, and I will be posting it the coming week on my real weird animals blog.
Jan 14, 2018
Heleen de Vaan
Wonderful ATC's by ToniPoet!
To be posted in the coming week on my animals blog, too.
Jan 14, 2018
Mail Art Martha
Ail Artist, appeals to me. Ail as in suffering of course as this person (who is an Artist but not a Mail Artist) suffers from being incomplete as an Artist, lacking Mail Artistness. As it is considered that everybody is an Artist the term Ail Artist can be extended to everybody who does not exercises Mail Artisting, whether this person is considered an artist or not.
Thanks Heleen, years of search have come to the end.
As we are multilingual in this group, how about, for the French version Artiste Ostal, for the Spanish Artista Ostal, for the Italian Artista Ostale, for the German Ail-Künstler , for the Swahili ... please somebody stop me1
Jan 15, 2018
Heleen de Vaan
I don't know in Swahili, but in Xhosa mail artist is Umculi wiposi,
and for ail artist we can say Yimuphi umculi.
I am happy to have helped you to solve the long-lasting question!
Jan 16, 2018
Mail Art Martha
Xhosa sounds nice, it looks like it could be as phonetic as Spanish.
Jan 16, 2018
Heleen de Vaan
I think you can use the pre-word 'ost' for all ail artists in whose language 'mail' means 'post'.
In German a Mail Artist is a Post Künstler, so an Ail Artist will be an Ost Künstler, 'Ost' here not to be confused with the meaning 'East' but with the abbreviation of the Latin word 'ostium' which means 'opening', and an opening, although some'thing' which brings us to new places and/or insights, also is something without a 'thing', a piece of nothing.
I mentioned the German version, to point at the possibly misunderstanding of mixing Ost and east; for the other languages which use the Latin alphabet, the word for Ail Artist can start with ost- anyway.
So in Dutch an 'ostkunstenaar', in Spanish indeed an Artista Ostal, etcetera.
Jan 17, 2018
Heleen de Vaan
I think you're right about the Xhosa pronounciation. Fortunately there is no x or ' in the word for (m)ail artist, as these letters/sounds are very hard to pronounce for non-native speakers. (there is an awesome movie in which a xhosa speaking man is the main character. Something about a cola bottle, a long journey and a coup d'etat - I think you should see it - if you don't know it already. I loved it even more than the movies about Alice (not sure if I may say that in this group..))
Jan 17, 2018
Melissa Wand
So, who wants one?
Mar 2, 2019
Mail Art Martha
Moi! Please!
12 River grove park Beckenham BR3 1HU UK
Thanks!!!
Mar 2, 2019
Amber Scribble
me please Melissa!!!
Mar 2, 2019
Melissa Wand
You got it, ladies.
Mar 3, 2019
Penny Reinecke
Bonjour mes amis
je suis Australienne
J’habite a Perth en Australia, et j’aime tous les choses ‘Alice’.
SVP je voudrais échanger mail Art.
Il y a quelqu’un qui est intéressé ?
Jun 26, 2019
Melissa Wand
Penny, sending some Alice Themed mail your way soon.
Jun 27, 2019
Melissa Wand
Jun 27, 2019