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Serali wrote:And is it going to kill someone just to say "Yes" or "No"?

I don't think so.

No, it wouldn't; but this is where you learn that most people aren't going to just give you information about things. It's called 'having better things to do'. Welcome to the real world.

Serali wrote:

vecfaranti wrote:Money is evil.

Yes, yes it is.

Anyway do any of these languages use scripts?

*Runs*

Why don't you try actually looking things up instead of trolling?

Eddy wrote:So there is actually a god in Almea. Then I suppose it makes sense afterall.

PAY NOT ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

I keep wondering why the US wants to support Georgia more than Russia. I mean, I know that they're both our allies, and that Georgia is a pro-western and pro-nato country, but aren't the Russians the ones who have the nukes? It seems like IMO, if we ever got in another war (God forbid), you would d...

From what I recall of the Cadhinor grammar, it had a tap/trill r , as does modern Verdurian. Cuêzi's approximant isn't quite the same as an English (not retroflexed, which is arguably one of the main features of the Midwestern [r\] Zomp compares it to. As for the sound files, I dunno, personally I p...

jal wrote:

schwhatever wrote:This thread will never die.

Is that a conclusion, a wish or a threat?


JAL

A statement.

When the Elenicoi arrived in Avéla people were speaking Old Verdurian, and Cadhinor, which have quite different flavors than modern Verdurian. That said, they did realise that Cadhinor (and to a lesser extent Cuêzi) was an inflecting language with many similarities to both Greek and Latin, to the po...

As I recall in Obenzayet Zomp uses ? to represent a glottal stop.

Legion wrote:Tired of the classic teady bear and other boring plushes. Try this site:

http://www.zestuff.com/plush/

Here you will find:

Plushes of Nintendo famous characters:

Sonic the Hedgehog is a Nintendo product? who knew?
(yes I know that's Shadow)

Louie wrote:

Belgokoškanelrei

That looks really cool tho
what does it translate to literally?

Well it's horrible Verdurian, but it'd be something like 'War to the cat queens'. And that's not 'cat queens', but seperate nouns 'cat' and 'queens'. Notice how little sense it makes.

read the Iliu volumes and tell us :mrgreen: Apparently no library in my area carries them. :? Can you tell me where to find them? Tom H.C. in MI The volumes haven't been transported from Almea yet. We're working on the interuniversal physics right now. Any progress on this since the last time someo...

The books of the iliu used underwater aren't written on paper. They can write in any number of ways-- most picturesquely, by having coral grow or luminous plankton swim into position; most permanently, by carving into stone, protected with a sort of waterproof resin. Their books are made of a plast...

Whicked! No words missing, but one extra I'm afraid. In its first eve it had crushed the the Obelne D?ri and we had not seen it since. And I like the bit where Shm Motucom says how they were bounced across the ocean like stones being skimmed across a lake. That suggests they were getting spun . Thi...

A voclano that spews cold water.

They can write in any number of ways-- most picturesquely, by having coral grow or luminous plankton swim into position; most permanently, by carving into stone, protected with a sort of waterproof resin. Their books are made of a plasticlike substance. Interesting! I assume the stone carving came ...

zompist wrote:If there's better font alternatives, I'd be happy to hear them; but I do need something that works for Windows IE.

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IE can only be threatened and cajoled into working; it will never do it on its own volition.

PIE has what we reconstruct as a middle voice, given that's what the forms mean in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. All the evidence we have is that it was a middle voice (at least that's what I read the authors to mean), that varied in meaning from reflexive to full passive. I'm not really sure what you...

As for the passive thing: I still claim that SOV languages didn't have originally a passive voice. Wherever this voice developed, I could say that it was a late development. PIE itself hadn't a passive (Lehmann, 1993 & Beekes, 1995), until it shifted to SVO. It may not have had a passive, but it di...

ok, this is the greek style: your father takes you when you're, say, 6-7 y.o., and throws you into the sea. If you don't get drowned, it's ok. it's that simple :) i am glad i aint greek, i wouldnt be typing this if i were... and how many children die every year from that? :P I don't think they thro...

Have you read this? It is of some help.

Somewhere in the old Board logs there's a discussion of how ALmea's plates fit together, but I don't know how accurate it is anymore.

Well, not really bent out of shape, I was just incredulous that you hadn't seen that other stuff. Apologies to you, kind sir; I tend to overreact.

Yours truthfully,

Blackhand

Brandrinn, have you ever read any of the Elkar?l grammar? Read the Count of Years? Gone thru the Historical Atlas? Because those are pretty damn interesting documents.

do you guys know of any sites where i can get MORE information on Babblers. also, i'd vote to open the option to allow BEGGING for signed first editions for us, (yes, me too :D PLEASE!!!). looking forward to it. G o _ V e r d u r i a n ! ! w o 0 t ! BLASHPHEMY!!! Speedtalk outranks Verdurian. how f...

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Delthayre wrote:

blackhand wrote::feverishly awaits the Sarroc grammar:

Oh dear, it looks like we'll need those flu vaccines after all.

and we'll have to put him on ice for a while as well

/me moves to Eleisa

:feverishly awaits the Sarroc grammar: