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Obviously. I'm just saying that you can , in principle, separate the story elements from that fact. (Not that I'm saying it's a great story; it has all the faults of the other early Tintins. But I did moderately enjoy picking it up once, whiling away a dull hour with it and putting it back on the sh...

Publishers are rushing to capitalize on the coming frenzy by publishing Tintin books in English, including an unfortunate early apologia for Belgian colonialism (which book Herge later disavowed): Tintin in the Congo. I can see why they'd want to -- it's a mildly fun story if you approach it from a...

As promised, I have started restoring Arie to the wiki

EDIT: and finished.

Where can I see the geographical and historical data that's already been worked out?

I'm taking the liberty of re-posting Rodlox's kinship terms into this topic, since his other post is in C&C and will be purged around the beginning of December (unless there are futher replies, in which case it will still be purged eventually.)

Rodlox, if you have any objection to this, shout at me.

As Delalyra said, this is a thread for posting funny quotes, not for harassing Serali. We pretty much have an entire forum devoted to harassing Serali by this point, so if you want to keep it up, go do it there.

Typo, dearie

[/RPG]Have you asked Zomp for permission for this?

[/RPG]Also, Almea is by far the lowest-traffic of the forums... if you're serious about this, you might make a topic in Ephemera to ask if anyone's interested, as it might be a while before anyone notices a new topic here.

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Me telling Mr Saturday he had as much human feeling as a neutron star, and him suggesting "black hole" would have been a more appropriate comparison.

From #isharia:

Nae wrote:ok, I think I've figured out.
The first column of the periodic table is reserved for stuff that explodes.
The last column is reserved for stuff that doesn't.

Yes, but you don't use the subjunctive as it's used in Romance languages.

"What number president was Reagan?" works fine.

I think "both"; saying which is which in each case. Right? No, this topic was original a survey of the sounds people used (and by extension didn't use) in their conlangs. I decided it was worth saving even though it's not directly natlang-related as it does remind us of what sounds used by natlangs...

I love this post for a nice bit of orthographic silliness:

Dingbats wrote:

-Klaivas- wrote:I had/have the problem in Ewari of having /l l` L L\/, which used to be <l> but are now <n>.

...this is the main reason why I created a conscript

You mean they were all transcribed with <l>, but you changed it to <n>...? Ok....

I think Zomp himself has admitted that 55 million was an overestimate, though it may take a while to dig up the source......

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've always used [dEk.tI."ki.S@.tIv] but I suppose aI is more logical. Actually, in anglicised Latin and Greek <ae> is pronounced [i:], as in formulae , Caesar , Aesop etc. [aI] is the pedantic pronunciation; I guess the reason I use it is that it's one of those words I've never heard someone else ...

Arêndron is accusative, and I'm considering making the new version dechticaetiative.

Xephyr would tell you that dechticaetiative is properly pronounced with a /s/, but I say /dEk.tI."kaI.S@.tIv/.

zompist wrote:IIRC an Almean day is about half an hour longer than ours, so the Almean year is about 335 Earth days long.

A more useful way to put it, since it gives you a figure you can just type into a calculator, is 1 Almean year ~ 0.92 Earth years.

My own favorite "exotic" sounds are linguo-labials and lateral plosives. But I don't think I'll use them in my first conlang. Aren't lateral plosives impossible by definition (unless you mean laterally released )? Lateral means there's more airflow round the sides of the tongue than in the centre, ...

aardwolf wrote:Why shouldn't his mother be ok with this? It's Neek's body...

Yes, but it'd be someone else's faces

The redirects are a good idea too (I've put in some already), though that would be low priority for me, and a useful thing readers could do. Oh :oops: I hadn't realised it was set up so other users could edit -- not the sort of thing I'd feel comfortable doing with my conworld! :wink: I wouldn't mi...

The resemblance (in appearance, I mean) between Benhêk and Nortala is quite scary...... I hope it wasn't deliberate! :roll: Anyway, I'm enjoying it a lot, but there are two things I really miss, and I think these should be a priority even before adding more articles: * IPA transcriptions, for the ti...

The problem is that this is such a tall order - I'm magically transported X lightdecades away to a planet with a language totally unlike any I've ever encountered before (and don't start with the "it's not that different" spiel, because that's false) and I'm supposed to pick the language up? If I'm...

Too much in between to qualify as either one or the other, really. (Of the two options open to me, I mean; I'm certainly not a zim .) For one thing, having children one day means too much to me to give it up for anything; but I am rather bookish, and I have the long hair and no beard :P so I'm not 1...