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by Nuntarin
Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:00 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
Replies: 25
Views: 10643

You're not.

Of course, my second instinct is always to remember that I can't afford extravangances like software, so I may as well forget about it and hope to be able to buy a copy in about five years' time.
by Nuntarin
Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:49 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Metaphors We Live By
Replies: 35
Views: 30015

Can I be the official passive-spectator-only-speaking-up-to-ask-annoying-questions-from-time-to-time? I don't know anything about the subject, but I'd be extremely interested in learning more. Of course, my interest is mainly from a conlanging angle; I have no idea how one could go about inventing a...
by Nuntarin
Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:46 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 720013

Echobeats wrote:
Delalyra wrote:
Pharazon wrote:Weird, sure, maybe in some places a little too weird, but nevertheless the asskickage remains.
What was this with reference to?
Phar's new phonology sketch
by Nuntarin
Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:41 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 720013

finlay, on seeing the result of PT4, wrote:You must have been doing something very different from what I was if it contains the phrase "Revenge of the donkeys" though!
by Nuntarin
Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:48 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: A Reader's Guide To SOV langs
Replies: 24
Views: 14884

I'm very grateful for the list; this will give us something to think about in Shaja! One question -- if SOV languages tend not to have a passive, how would English passive sentences best be translated? Incidentally, while vlad is right that Latin was SOV with prepositions, as I understand it that is...
by Nuntarin
Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:07 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Swimming
Replies: 31
Views: 10730

I also, by the way, absolutely hate both a) facial hair and b) shaving. My current career goals include becoming a genetic engineer so I can engineer out the gene for facial hair from the human genetic code... :D Perhaps I could figure out how to make it migrate northwards.... can you imagine the a...
by Nuntarin
Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:10 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Yup'ik Thread [Lesson Two, slowly but surely]
Replies: 21
Views: 31686

So, how does one say "Happy Birthday" in Yu'pik?
by Nuntarin
Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:54 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Yup'ik Thread [Lesson Two, slowly but surely]
Replies: 21
Views: 31686

Even those.
by Nuntarin
Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:50 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Erel?ean Colonialism
Replies: 4
Views: 2587

He is Cypress. :mrgreen:
by Nuntarin
Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:20 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Almea's Historical Atlas continues?
Replies: 32
Views: 12901

Reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes........ (and this is from memory, so it won't be an exact quote): Calvin: If you could wish for anything in the world, what would it be? Hobbes: A peanut-butter sandwich. Calvin: What? Is that all? I'd wish for at least a million dollars and my own jet-plane. (They re...
by Nuntarin
Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:07 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Almea's Historical Atlas continues?
Replies: 32
Views: 12901

/me wants, at the very least, the pronunciations of the names of all those
by Nuntarin
Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:25 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
Replies: 58
Views: 74776

Ah, Bulgarian. :D

Only thing I know about it is that I got flamed once on a Harry Potter board for correcting someone who thought they spoke German in Bulgaria.
by Nuntarin
Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:22 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: X
Replies: 53
Views: 19811

But we shouldn't be on that topic, at least not here. Since I found a conlang in which <x> is /gz/ end of story, that's on the list now, and there's nothing more to discuss.

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