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I'm looking forward to learning a little Xurnese, once it's up (Curse you Verdurian royalist scum!)

Great Job, Dudicon! Ggum Bing! <ll(:-(|} {l|:-||< (Edit: I checked it on Pharazon's program and I actually got it right! wooo!)

By the way, Pharazon, your translator is translating emoticon>romanization fine, but I can't get it to go the other way :-\

Dudicon, how's the Elkari emoticons coming?

pharazon wrote:Wouldn't you want to actually be able to use the official script?

Eh?

sweet! Be sure to tell us when you get it up; it could be the official script of #almea!

I would like somebody to do it If nobody else wants to, I wouldn't mind.

No! I need Elkaril emoticons!

zompist wrote:The lawn gnomes of Viminia

That should be...interesting.

Boy bands of Kebri

I think that's past the point of interesting

():o(|.)E - Representing Elkar?l using emoticons

I can't wait for that. That should be the official alphabet of #almea.

I think I remember Zomp saying that he had some conlangs in his conworld that were polysynthetic. I think it was in the Wede:i topic.

Hmmm...interesting.

Nah, I don't think I caught it via internet, JT. It's been going around our school for the past week...about 1/6 (about 17%) of the school was out with it.

I got the flu today, so I only went 1/2 a day at school. I've felt horrible all day, but I'm starting to feel a little better (good enough to get off the couch and send a couple e-mails). I'll be missing school tomorrow though. Too bad

Probably. But if you have an idea for a conlang, you don't want to spend months on another conlang before starting on it. And what if you create a proto-lang, but then want to create an even farther back proto-lang for it. To be entirely complete, you'd have to do a proto-world first....

Eddy the Great wrote:I thought you had to make the proto-language first, then the decendent langs.

Not nescisarilly(sp)...this is conlangery after all. You can do it in whichever order you want.

A problem might occur when saving the images into the same folder. If the original HTML specifies that the images are in a folder (for example, /images/blah.html), and I think most (or all) of Zomp's images are in seperate folders.

Here's a sample of my new polylang, just so you can get a feel on it. I won't post much grammatical things yet, but here's a few things. The only consanant clusters allowed are 'qt' and 'tq', or a continuation of those ('qtq', which is uncommon). No more than two consecutive vowels are allowed. The ...

What's everyone's favorite of Almea's sentient species? Why? Mine would have to be the ktuvoki. I find their behavior fascinating, as well as their culture. It's interesting how they effect their slaves and pets.

really? didn't know that...=/

!K's screenname is wierd...he has no title, 2 posts, and no auto avatar...is this a board error or what? It doesn't say he's a guest...lol...things like this just make me curious. Anyway.... The one unquestioned skill of the ktuvoki is in animal training-- which extends to impressing and dominating ...

yes, I don't believe they enslave ilii. They usually enslave humans, I believe, and hate the ilii.

But I meant what non-sentient animals did they domesticate?

I just reread the section about the Ktuvoki on the Almean biology page, and I have a few questions: Do the tentacles on their heads have any signicant function? Are they extra sensories, as a cat's whiskers? Can Ktuvoki naturally move them, like you could move a finger? Maybe the way some people can...

I *think* I remember something about Zomp saying that Almean humans only had, like, *maybe* three toes? Or something like that...or maybe that was Flaids...

ah, okay. I had gotten the impression that all Elkari culture was centered around craftsmanship. Oh, and another question: are then any elcar that live in human culture? Like, is there ever a chance of finding an elcari bar tender or inn keeper? Are they accepted into human civilization, and vice-ve...

Zomp, are there any in Elcar society that are just poor at crafting or drawing? If so, are they shunned or persecuted in any way, or simply still accepted?

zomp, two words: <i>absolutely genuis</i>.