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- Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:31 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14645
Re: Cadhinorian Religion
That would nonetheless still be part of "the realm of worship".
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:06 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14645
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...
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:19 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34576
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...
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:00 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: any updates on his conlangs or conworld?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2616
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:38 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30426
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 ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:24 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30426
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...
- Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:36 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Rogues
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8683
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...
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:16 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Rogues
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8683
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...
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:29 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Your Favorite Almea Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 25966
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...
- Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:08 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Rogues
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8683
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:54 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9835
- Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:34 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian PDF?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4889
- Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:30 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19867
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...
- Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:14 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19867
- Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:06 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19867
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...
- Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:23 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19867
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:57 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almean font examples
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6794
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...
- Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:37 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian has been converted
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7024
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...
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...