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- Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:10 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The great reclimatization
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22090
1. Xurno wouldn't have a humid continental climate, IMO. Those mountains to the north and west will probably block most of the rain coming in. Rather Xurno, especially away from the coast, would be semi-arid and quite cold - think Patagonia rather than the Midwest. Actually I think I'm missing some...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The great reclimatization
- Replies: 64
- Views: 22090
1. Xurno wouldn't have a humid continental climate, IMO. Those mountains to the north and west will probably block most of the rain coming in. Rather Xurno, especially away from the coast, would be semi-arid and quite cold - think Patagonia rather than the Midwest. 2. Why is the central Be area rain...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:23 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: How your idiolect differs from the standard language
- Replies: 371
- Views: 98909
- Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:13 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:52 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A brief overview of the development of Western Philosophy
- Replies: 252
- Views: 65952
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
Hmm, very interesting. We're entering the modern era! A question, though: if Fananak caused plague because of cross-continental disease, why didn't that happen when the Skourenes and Bé crossed the ocean earlier? Because it generally takes a certain amount of sustained contact for diseases to sprea...
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:17 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:55 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Kebri & Verduria
- Replies: 50
- Views: 12289
Not to mention the fact that both Kebri and Japan have languages that inflect for politeness, emphasize aspect rather than tense, and have -te forms. Japanese does not emphasize aspect anymore (or, more accurately, while the current past form diachronically derives from aspects, it no longer has th...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:22 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Languages you'd like to see
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10797
Uyseʔ - it reminds me of reconstructed Old Chinese. Nah, Old Chinese was much scarier than Uyseʔ :P I think Lé looks more like a Chinese language, given that it's apparently SVO, tonal, and head-final. Omeguese looks, specifically, more like Mandarin, what with the way it makes compound words and t...
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:50 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Languages you'd like to see
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10797
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:36 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
Basically, anywhere you see dense populations in tropical rainforest zones, they're agriculturalist populations. (Yes, Yiuel, I made reference to SE Asia's agriculturalists already.) West Africa is an example of this -- and those population densitites have had consequences for the region's ecology,...
- Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:58 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
- Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:25 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
I really like the biographies of Phwai and Mur - they add a really nice touch and are interesting from an ethnography point of view too. Speaking of which, can I ask the sources you're getting your stuff on economy, life-expectancy, and stuff from? Particularly for the tropical zone; finding out stu...
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:38 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Arcél
- Replies: 134
- Views: 34828
- Sat May 16, 2009 4:53 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Analytic/Isolating Languages of Almea?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3133
I don't think Erelae can really be called a Sprachbund. Neither can Arcel, especially since by the look of it the only thing Uyse? and Le have in common is the fact they're isolating, which is hardly rare cross-linguistically. It'd be good to see Zomp do an isolating conlang; there don't seem to be ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:34 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Beic culture
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18237
On women armies: I really doubt that, in a rainforest, you'd really want to be wearing the kind of armour English longbows were designed to get through - infact most armour would probably be pretty impractical. Actually, looking at warfare in terrestrial tropical areas, I imagine big bows might not ...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:01 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Beic culture
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18237
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:28 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Fictional Verdurian Money
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8889
Yeah, Elizabeth II is smacked on one side of all Bank of England notes. On the other side you get various important people: Darwin, (Adam) Smith, Elgar, Dickens... each note gets a revamp every few years with a new person. Actually, that raises a question: Does Verduria have a central bank? Or does ...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356622
- Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:36 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Iliu-Ktuvok Wars
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2227
Heh. I'd always assumed that both the Ilii and the Ktuvoks still know how to make some pretty serious weaponry, but the reason that the Ktuvoks don't, say, blow up Verduria with some WMD is because they know the Ilii would then retaliate with technology just as advanced, as they have before (e.g. th...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:40 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Ilii and Space Travel
- Replies: 45
- Views: 12794
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:21 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Europe - Erel?e correspondences
- Replies: 64
- Views: 21222
Cheiy has never been to me something like Tibet, they are too knowledge oriented and lack its spiritualism. Somehow, it looks more like a generic frontier country. There is something close to Vietnam with its North and South relation. I cannot place any relation to on or another Earth country. How ...
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:24 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Eynleyni languages
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12841
Personally I think /Dexnam/ and /cel:ax/ both sound quite nice... So far it has a fairly complex verb system, which relies extensively on infixing and consonant change. The primary inflection is rank, rather than number and person. Hm... Sounds a little bit like the Monkhayic languages. Since the Mo...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:49 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 309926
About 1,920 public domain (early 1900s, late 1800s) grammars of interesting languages* available for free in full text view and pdf download from Google Books. *Not counting English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Greek. I've been using google books for a while. Beware the Hausa grammar though...