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by Gremlins
Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:02 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Origin of the name "Cadhinas"
Replies: 7
Views: 3341

Perhaps it's some derogatory Monkhayu thing, which the Cadhinorians took for themselves?
by Gremlins
Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:26 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 496236

Me are not understand this britslang....
by Gremlins
Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:12 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: the Old Granny thread
Replies: 624
Views: 211415

Dew, I tried your bolognese recipe; but I'm sad to inform you it tasted like fail, because of the cinammon (I thought it look wierd, but I'm of the "don't knock it 'till you've tried it" school of thought")
by Gremlins
Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:30 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 161111

dhokarena56 wrote:English has a possesive pronoun for people-whose- but none for things, so we must say, "The skyscraper whose windows are blue." Maybe it could be something like, "The skyscraper whiches windows are blue."
The skyscraper which the windows of are blue, mayhaps?
by Gremlins
Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:02 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: the Old Granny thread
Replies: 624
Views: 211415

I recently discovered (after my mum made me cook + pay for food for a week after I insinuated I hated her cooking) that I really liked lentils. Also, at 80p/500 grams, they're good value. Gremmilicious Lentil Stuff Serves: 2 Ingredients: 1/3 cup lentils some peas 1 red onion 1 red chilli 1 clove gar...
by Gremlins
Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:12 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Language Universals
Replies: 61
Views: 62758

As Nuntar(?), said earlier, is farther from [a] than [e], but this is ignoring the general realizations of /a i u/ in many systems. In Quechua, they are much closer to [6 I U] than anything else. I believe Zomp's theory on this is that without other vowels to block them from sliding inward a little...
by Gremlins
Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:26 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 496236

NakedCelt, ils: Bomb war crimes courts! Gas all librulz for treason! Use Muslims for stem cell experiments! Kill them all! Kill them all! Genuinely funny piece. (Sorry, Dew and Gremlins, if laughing at the NRO cruise offends you, but I think it's pretty humorous.) Oh no, I love laughing at right-wi...
by Gremlins
Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:48 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 496236

NakedCelt, ils: Bomb war crimes courts! Gas all librulz for treason! Use Muslims for stem cell experiments! Kill them all! Kill them all! I love Johann Hari, tubby little shrill thing that he is. Urgh. The indie is worse than the guardian for left-wing insanity. LEIK OMG THERE ARE 500 INSANE TWATS ...
by Gremlins
Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:46 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
Replies: 201
Views: 170206

Cornelius: There's quite a strong analogy "shielding" the patterns from sound change; a conditioned change would either be treated as allophony or revert back by analogy. Some conditioned changes like Hebrew lenition get through iirc because they don't merge many roots. Intervocalic voicing of voice...
by Gremlins
Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:09 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Almean views on suicide
Replies: 8
Views: 4556

Among the Be, in ancient times, the husband(s) of a queen were expected to kill themselves when she died. The Blah empire in my Conworld (I don't have a name for them yet and /blah/ is an acceptable word in Sarim so meh) had a similar belief, except any spouse was expected to kill themselves if the...
by Gremlins
Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:16 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: The Red Cabal
Replies: 20
Views: 7001

Eddy wrote:I would hardly call it particularly unrealistic considering the conworld also features magic and a giant ring of fire around the planet.
Um... I don't think it's a real big ball of fire, but a very hot, torrid zone around the equator with no winds, making it difficult to cross.
by Gremlins
Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:29 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Littoral
Replies: 7
Views: 4223

Well, although northern Arcel may not be a Littoral, I'd bet boats are important, as per Southern China in our world; if the jungle is very thick and most people live in valleys or on the coast then governments and people would prefer to take boats up major rivers or hugging the coast than to put a ...
by Gremlins
Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:16 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Littoral
Replies: 7
Views: 4223

The only region I see as possibly sustaining a littoral culture like you see in Skouras or the Mediterranean would be Haibalai, assuming they have the technology for fast, reliable ocean travel. Which, as their cousins colonised the Island Sea to the east and a large swathe of Arcel to the west, is...
by Gremlins
Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:49 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 719996

vampyre_smiles wrote:
goneriku wrote:Ever wonder why people don't quote you?
My only guess is that they don't catch most of the humor that I use.
It's probably because you think we don't get the humour you use :wink:
by Gremlins
Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:44 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: LangMaker Top 100
Replies: 53
Views: 22462

What 'bout yourself, Zomp? Your linguistic map of Erelae was a nice teaser; are you working on the Western languages atm?
by Gremlins
Thu May 24, 2007 11:38 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
Replies: 201
Views: 170206

PIE may have evolved from a parent language based on bisyllabic roots, similar to most of the native roots in languages like Finnish or S?mi. So what's this "native roots in languages like Finnish"? Please elaborate. :) Apparently a vast number of PU roots have CVCV structure. Knock of the last vow...
by Gremlins
Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:14 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: The Official Let's Speak an Almean Language Thread
Replies: 9
Views: 4722

Inazu Kebreni!
by Gremlins
Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:49 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Arcel
Replies: 3
Views: 2322

Another Question: Reading the count of years, I noticed that the Cuezi were aware that the Qarau also followed a religion induced bt the Ilii. Are there any other people who have been "chosen" for want of a better word, in Tellinor, Nan, or Arcel? Also, it says somewhere that the Be and certain othe...
by Gremlins
Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:18 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Arcel
Replies: 3
Views: 2322

Arcel

How much work has been / is being done on Arcel? I'm interested because I just wrote a very bad article on Uytai on the Almeopaedia :P. Anyway, it just that Arcel seems rather cool, especially Belesao (Iliu worshipping topless feminists? What's not to like?). Also, the languages (partucularly Uytain...
by Gremlins
Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:12 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
Replies: 83
Views: 32850

Serali wrote:I'm not gullible. Stop saying that.
You are gullible. So no.
by Gremlins
Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:53 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: So who would rape ilii anyway?
Replies: 20
Views: 8346

Legros wrote:
young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses
Elephants raping rhinoceroses? I'd like to see pictures :D
The mind boggles. It truely does.
by Gremlins
Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:07 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Hungarian translation project - Dirty Fred
Replies: 64
Views: 57628

As my western-born wife loves to point out, even salads in Hungary have bacon bits.
Sounds like my kinda country! :mrgreen:
by Gremlins
Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:10 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Populations of major Erelaean countries?
Replies: 6
Views: 3466

But... if 55 million people live on the Plains, and Verduria covers a large part of that area, how can there only be 6 million people in Verduria.

Personally, I've always thought that 55million was a little high...
by Gremlins
Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:57 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 139725

Nuntar wrote:
Tavorian wrote:Tavorian works like basque I think;

I slept
I saw him
I sent her a letter

Become

Slept I
Saw him I
Sent a letter I to her
We're talking about morphosyntactic alignment, not word order....
I think we can garner from that that Tavorian is an Ergative-Dechiactive (sp) langauge.
by Gremlins
Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:34 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 139725

Interesting: Well, Berag groups A and P together, with S marked differently. Actually this has evolved from an archaic finite-infinite distinction- nouns aren't marked. As for the "secondary" alignment... That's harder to get my head around :? I think Berag would actually mark them differently... In...