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Probably Janko Gorenc.

Lol.

But, same here.

[Ek_hs."t_h{~Int_h] versus ["sEks.t_hn=t_}].

I don't want to appear annoying or pushy...but...

I'm just wondering how I did.

(Sorry to bump the thread like this... )

Ah, yes, good luck with finding a job, Mark!

I decided to finally attempt a translation into an Almean language...in this case, Isma?n. I'd appreciate any assistance for improvement! (BTW, yes, I know the pasage is...umm...odd. Try to get past that :) ) "3 little pigs lived in a forest. One built a house of straw, one built a house of sticks, ...

Welcome to the Board Izopiru! ?T? ingl?s es mejor que mi espa?ol!

Have fun!

Neat-o.

zompist wrote:True enough, though from another point of view it is: it's simulated human skin.

I'm confused now...what is that site?

I think it works like this: Mark would like living in Verduria but find Terra Pvlchra immoral. I would like living in Terra Pvlchra, but find Verduria immoral. As for the Iliu, Mark never said he favored their ideas anywhere. Eddy, remember what I said last night, about you needing to stop digging ...

<snort>!

Run, Mark! Run!

Well, only a few thousand people probably know about Verduria (any idea how many, Zomp?), so the chances of you bumping into one, andf then somehow getting onto the topic, is increadibly mminiscule .

Ah, yes, pronunciation. There are several people, including myself, in my Spanish class who can truly pronounce Spanish quite well. Most of the other kids have improved a lot from when we started though. Never having been in a school language class, I've wondered: how much pronunciation do they tea...

Ah, yes, pronunciation. There are several people, including myself, in my Spanish class who can truly pronounce Spanish quite well. Most of the other kids have improved a lot from when we started though.

The things I really have troble with are (stop)+r or r+(stop) combinations (e.g., traer).

Hmm...well, just the other day, we had a Spanish test, and in the cultura section, one of the questions was something like ?C?mo se llama vaqueros en Argentina? ("What are cowboys called in Argentina?"). The answer is gaucho , but for some unknown reason I answered with guagua . Which is the Cuban w...

zompist wrote:(BTW, if this thread continues to be popular, I may well provide an English-to-Isma?n lexicon.)

w00t! Or should I say, eziste!

Ghost wrote:Cenre e Whimemsz? Si vule espage Isma?n.

Ghost

Be patient, Ghost. I must work my way through the grammar, until I know it all, before I shall attempt to construct sentences in Isma?n.

Cyłpi,

Whimemsz

Whimz, as you know Mandarin, could you help me with the alveolo-palatal fricatives ? & j . They're a bit confusing to me. I'm flattered that you'd ask me, especially since I know about 20 words in Mandarin. Nevertheless... Like /S/, but laminal, would be a close approximation, I'd say. And <j> is t...

Whimz, as you know Mandarin, could you help me with the alveolo-palatal fricatives ? & j . They're a bit confusing to me. I'm flattered that you'd ask me, especially since I know about 20 words in Mandarin. Nevertheless... Like /S/, but laminal, would be a close approximation, I'd say. And <j> is t...

On the same subject, is the Isma?n /r/ pronounced [4] or [r]? What about /r=/, is it [4=], [r=], or [r\=]? Or something different?

zompist wrote:The eventual First Zompistry Convention will dissolve into no doubt mutually antagonistic factions. "Verdurian is better!" "No, Xurnese is, royalist scum!" "Jippir curse the lot of you infidels!"

Fool! It's Isma?n!

Ghost wrote:Well, I've started learning Ismain, and AFAIK I'm the only one, although I'm very probably wrong...

Well, I started learning Isma?n yesterday, so you're no longer the only one.

Shm Jay wrote:

Whimemsz wrote:Gross...

You have to go back and read my edited comment.

<snort>!

Gross...