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by butsuri
Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:31 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
Replies: 20
Views: 14572

Re: Cadhinorian Religion

That would nonetheless still be part of "the realm of worship".
by butsuri
Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:06 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
Replies: 20
Views: 14572

Re: Cadhinorian Religion

The link to the Caďinor lexicon is broken (it points to http://www.zompist.com/cadhdict.htm rather than http://www.zompist.com/cadhlex.htm). An apparent contradiction: the section on the Fates says «They never enter the realm of worship, perhaps in part because they bear no outside influence; as one...
by butsuri
Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:19 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
Replies: 134
Views: 34573

Fascinating stuff. I'm always happy to see new Almean developments. A question on orthography (sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere): reading the Múr article, I noticed that Beic words with accented ɔ & ɛ are being written with spacing accent marks (e.g. brɔ`ŋ , Prɛ`n ). Would it not m...
by butsuri
Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:00 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: any updates on his conlangs or conworld?
Replies: 3
Views: 2616

Sounds wonderful. I hope to read it sometime in 2008.
by butsuri
Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:38 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
Replies: 83
Views: 30423

I guess it is. Hey can I ask you a question? What the beautiful script in you sig called? And could you show me more of it? Thanks! Oh, it's a featural alphabet I made a few years ago. It doesn't really have a name, since my conlang never got far enough to come up with one. Maybe that'll change in ...
by butsuri
Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:24 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
Replies: 83
Views: 30423

Guys, what bi posted is a string of characters in the Unicode Private Use Area . They're mapped unofficially to Verdurian in the CSUR, but unless you have a font that follows that mapping (i.e. bi's font, since there aren't any others that I know of) you won't see Verdurian. You could see almost any...
by butsuri
Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:36 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: The Rogues
Replies: 24
Views: 8679

Ah, yes, I know the story. It's online, if anyone wants to make their own comparison: The Tale of Satampra Zeiros . There are similarities - two thieves decide to loot an old temple, which turns out to contain something nasty. But, again, that's a pretty standard sword-and-sorcery plot. I'm sure one...
by butsuri
Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:16 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: The Rogues
Replies: 24
Views: 8679

I was reminded of Smith, and Robert E. Howard for that matter, as well as Lieber. (Lieber more than others mainly because of the two protagonists.) "Seek treasure in ruined temple, encounter supernatural horror" is a fairly standard plot -- I don't know if Ofeig has in mind a CAS story with a more s...
by butsuri
Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:29 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Your Favorite Almea Language
Replies: 65
Views: 25955

With regard to Japanese, it ultimately becomes a question of how you want to define "pronoun". But the important difference is not the etymology, but that Japanese often uses full nouns to refer to 1st and 2nd person referents, and the personal pronouns are a comparatively much less important part o...
by butsuri
Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:08 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: The Rogues
Replies: 24
Views: 8679

Very nice. I too was reminded of Lieber. A couple of extremely minor criticisms came to mind as I was reading, but overall very impressive and solidly entertaining. I look forward to having more of the background filled in as it becomes available.
by butsuri
Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:54 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
Replies: 25
Views: 9830

You could use Fontforge, which is free software. Probably not quite as simple to install on Windows, though. It's quite a capable program, though not, I think, quite up to the standard of the really expensive professional tools.
by butsuri
Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:34 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian PDF?
Replies: 11
Views: 4887

Also, you can be a lot more confident that people can see your exotic characters (diacritics, IPA) than with HTML.
by butsuri
Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:30 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Lenani is up
Replies: 52
Views: 19859

Sorry about that; but it can't really be fixed without rewriting my rtf-to-html utility entirely. I try to fix some of the oddities using replace, but this one can't be caught that way. I've fixed a local copy by hand - I can send you the corrected version if you like. If there's better font altern...
by butsuri
Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:14 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Lenani is up
Replies: 52
Views: 19859

Fontwise, unfortunately there's a problem with FreeSerif too - it displays italic n for italic eng, which is obviously not ideal.
by butsuri
Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:06 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Lenani is up
Replies: 52
Views: 19859

The above is why I had to monkey around with my browser's settings to get it to display legibly- I can't stand long text in Gentium. On the other hand, it's both legible and aesthetically pleasing (and includes bolding) with FreeSerif. IMHO, I would have preferred it if Zomp hadn't actually specifi...
by butsuri
Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:23 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Lenani is up
Replies: 52
Views: 19859

Most impressive, and the language has a number of features I rather like. I'll make further comments when I've read in more detail. But first, a technical note - in a number of places, the HTML has improperly nested b and font tags, for instance <b><font color="#008000">Meŋeland</b></font> wh...
by butsuri
Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:23 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: South - A geographic problem
Replies: 22
Views: 8160

All poles above the ecliptic are defined to be north poles by the IAU.) I think that was a mistake, as will become evident as soon as we arrive in another solar system. :) The rotational test, by contrast, can be applied anywhere in the universe. If you take "above the ecliptic" to be defined in te...
by butsuri
Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:51 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: South - A geographic problem
Replies: 22
Views: 8160

I'm not sure if there's real confusion here, and if so who suffers from it; but I think there's just three reasonable methods for defining north: 1. Towards the equator. The problem, of course, is that you'd have north pointing different directions in each hemisphere; or you'd have to choose a "rea...
by butsuri
Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:44 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: South - A geographic problem
Replies: 22
Views: 8160

Re: South - A geographic problem

I don't really understand the point of these questions. If Almea were, for instance, in a retrograde orbit, then there might be some ambiguity in which pole was north and which direction was east - but since AFAIK it isn't, no such ambiguity exists. Even if it was, this isn't something that differen...
by butsuri
Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:57 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Almean font examples
Replies: 17
Views: 6786

You're thinking of this post to Qalam in Dec 2003, I believe. 5. What does that "non-proposal" mean anyway? I called this a "non-proposal" because I know that John Cowan and Michael Everson will ask me: "Will you provide a Elkar?l font for us to publish your proposal on the CSUR website?", and I wil...
by butsuri
Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:37 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian has been converted
Replies: 19
Views: 7024

guitarplayer wrote:Maybe Zomp should set up an RSS thingy so that you addicts immediately know that there's been a change? ;)
You know, I for one would really rather like that.
by butsuri
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:21 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Meshaism
Replies: 26
Views: 10044

I like Timai's hat.
by butsuri
Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:38 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Axunashin
Replies: 36
Views: 11907

Fine, but "If we live in Curau, then we're home" is an unlikely English utterance. Not really... you may have heard of the movie If this is Tuesday this must be Belgium . Or the bumper sticker "If you can read this, you're too damn close." I don't agree that these are analogous. People are genuinel...
by butsuri
Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:28 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Axunashin
Replies: 36
Views: 11907

There's something I'm unclear about in the last part of the section on the conditional: The particles keno and tikeno assume that the condition is counterfactual. In English we use if-then constructions to express logical consequences; these are not keno (conditional) expressions in Axunašin, but ti...
by butsuri
Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:17 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Axunashin
Replies: 36
Views: 11907

Oh, you need to change the word order of the gloss on "Zalai empoji tinaya ?enkirtuim koribimutu" in the section on clause reversal.

Is subordination with tinaya more marked than with naya? Is there a difference in emphasis?