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- Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:44 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642198
Another question: what does the English word "war" come from. It doesn't seem related to the word in any other Germanic language that I know of. Yeah, guerra is a borrowing from Germanic. The Germanic tribes of those days were much better soldiers than the Romans, so the Romance speakers threw out ...
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:10 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 286990
From IE to common Germanic: Consonants bh, dh, gh > B, D, G b, d, g > p, t, k p, t, k > f, T, x > B, D, G (except initially or following IE stress, in which case they remained f, T, x) According to some, this happened in a certain order. p, t, k > f, T, x left no p, t, or k, which is awkward. So b,...
- Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:32 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Any other Almea out there?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12590
Re: Any other Almea out there?
Does anyone know if there are any more constructed worlds out there on the web that are of the scale of Almea? I've looked and not been able to find one quite like it. I found a world called Khoras, which has a lot of detail, but very little language stuff, and I don't really like the organization ...
- Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:21 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Un-named leaders in the Historical Atlas
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4014
Re: Un-named leaders in the Historical Atlas
I'm guessing 3 and 4.zompist wrote:1. Fred the Ktuvok
2. Bill the Ktuvok
3. B?~l? (the ~ goes over the ?; the name means 'storm-glory')
Two of these answers are not serious.
- Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:39 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian words that look like Finnish words
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12786
- Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:57 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian words that look like Finnish words
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12786
- Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:55 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian words that look like Finnish words
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12786
- Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian words that look like Finnish words
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12786
I'd love to know if those are taken from Finnish (esp. tyurma) or pure coincidence... and of course, hi! pickles... we love pickles We have a lot of Finns on this board, I believe you're number 8. So you should feel right at home. If you're a geek or a pervert, even better! From what I've experienc...
- Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:30 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian more popular than Ilkorin!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13564
- Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:16 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Attention!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9574
- Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:35 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Attention!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9574
Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate. Care to tell us about the experience? Was the colour yellow, or pale? Was the duration long or short? Did it foam up or just stay there? Did you make a noisy burble-splash into the water, or a dull hiss onto the toilet bowl rim? Di...
- Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:05 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Mathematical Operators
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7488
- Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Mathematical Operators
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7488
I remember the name of the book that "=" came from-- I think it was called "The Whetstone of Witte". The writer said he would use two parallel lines as an abbreviation for "is equalle to" because "no two other Things can be moare equalle". I can't remember the writer's name, though. (There was a fa...
- Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:36 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A new way of advertising Almea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12810
Not really. Not only is Mark a he, but the general English pronoun is traditionally "he." True, at one point, it was proper to refer to a woman as 'he' or 'him' in the accusative. What English really needs is a gender-nuetral third person singular pronoun to refer to humans. There is 'xe', but no o...
- Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:24 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A new way of advertising Almea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12810
Not really. Not only is Mark a he, but the general English pronoun is traditionally "he." True, at one point, it was proper to refer to a woman as 'he' or 'him' in the accusative. What English really needs is a gender-nuetral third person singular pronoun to refer to humans. There is 'xe', but no o...
- Sat Jul 10, 2004 12:47 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A new way of advertising Almea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12810
Someone shouldn't, unless they're me. Whoa man, that sentence is "messing" with my brain I see what you mean...I thought Zomp was better at grammar than that. Nothing ungrammatical bout it tho. Of course there is. Illegal use of "they." Meh, I don't see anything wrong with that... I've used it in t...
- Sat Jul 10, 2004 12:37 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A new way of advertising Almea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12810
Back to the topic of this thread, someone should make some zompist.com merchandise and sell it on http://www.cafepress.com :ch Someone shouldn't, unless they're me. Whoa man, that sentence is "messing" with my brain I see what you mean...I thought Zomp was better at grammar than that. Nothing ungra...
- Mon May 31, 2004 4:27 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Plans for Southern Erel?e?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5139
Are the embolded "t"s seperate phonemes, like retroflexes, or are you slyly trying to give us info about some upcoming work? In fact they are retroflexes... Old Skourene had a set of dental and a set of retroflex stops, fricatives, and liquids. Are the bolded letters your preferred transcription, o...
- Fri May 07, 2004 2:39 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: A new way of advertising Almea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12810
- Tue May 04, 2004 4:29 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Introductions
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25025
- Sat May 01, 2004 11:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: How did you decide on the intelligent beings?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19216
So you pronounce extant the same as extent ? Just checked the OED; it gives both pronunciations ["Ekst@nt] and [Eks"t{nt], but the first (which matches mine) is given as more usual. Hmm... I've never heard ["Ekst@nt] before... What he said. I have <extent> and <extant> as [Ek."stInt_}] and ["Ek.st@...
- Sat May 01, 2004 10:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: How did you decide on the intelligent beings?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19216
- Sat May 01, 2004 2:58 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: How did you decide on the intelligent beings?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19216
- Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:50 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Zone of Fire in Curym?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23412