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- Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Origin of the name "Cadhinas"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3341
- 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
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:12 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: the Old Granny thread
- Replies: 624
- Views: 211415
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:30 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 161111
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:16 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Red Cabal
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7001
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 ...
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...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 719996
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:44 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: LangMaker Top 100
- Replies: 53
- Views: 22462
- 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...
- Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:14 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Official Let's Speak an Almean Language Thread
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4722
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...
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...
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:12 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
- Replies: 83
- Views: 32850
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:53 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So who would rape ilii anyway?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8346
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:07 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Hungarian translation project - Dirty Fred
- Replies: 64
- Views: 57628
- Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:10 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Populations of major Erelaean countries?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3466
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:57 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
- Views: 139725
I think we can garner from that that Tavorian is an Ergative-Dechiactive (sp) langauge.Nuntar wrote:We're talking about morphosyntactic alignment, not word order....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
- 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...