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Both Laila and Moriel looks a little uneasy on the boat, and eager to get off. Both a few times in the trip they leaned over the edge of the boat.

((It's supposed to be Laila, (-a=masculine) apparently I'm sometimes forgetting that one letter. ))

(Oops. It was Laila who said that.) "Want to try I them!" Moriel laughed, slapping Laila on the back. "My friend is already thinking of dinner. I can't blame him I suppose, considering we missed lunch. We'll survive until then, but I look foreword to it." "I am amazed at what I have seen here, and m...

I use the usbourne "First 1000 words" book, and another book like it. Also the already mentioned vocab build thread here

Fish apears to be of special interest to both Lail and Moriel who seem to perk up their ears (well, at least Moriel who has ears. ) at the mention.
"Have nany kinds of fish here? What they taste like? Come from I was, we like fish. Very tasty." Laila said.

They do have tails (It's in the physical description).

I agree the sentence does seem offl. I like the second version. fixed.

Granted, this may be an incredibly nitpicky distinction .. Not at all, it seems like a good distinction to make to me. Changed it to: "Because biologically a female's chest is the same as a male's, they never had a reason to develop a norm for females covering their chest, as some human cultures, a...

((Pronounciation: (Too lazy to figure out IPA)
Moriel: (My best guess, it's Hebrew and I don't speak it, I just picked it from a list ) More-ee-el
Lail: Lay-l
))

Gesture - I see I didn't really describe the gesture very well. The palm should be laid flat, paralel with the ground. This man apears to be trying to do the gesture, though as I said, the hands are usualy paralel with the ground, not at angles like in this picture. Breasts - I've noticed that previ...

This sounds really neat. I'd love to help host if you needed a host, though it looks like you got quite a few volunteers, and I'm fairly limited in my computer usage (only a couple hours in the evening currently), also I'm not sure I have a good "radio voice." :P. I'd be glad to help in some other w...

(Cross-posted from Conworlds.org) Note: There is no way I can put everything here, this is a small sample. More details may be on the wiki site . Use the side bar on the right to navigate categories (or use links in articles, as with Wikipedia). I'm sort of at a dead-end with my con-world, I'm not s...

((Oops. Lail is just a little shorter than Moriel, about 5'8".)) "Thankfully we had packed some snacks that we ate that should tide us over to evening meal. And yes, we did get to the hotel and dropped our luggage off. " Seeing the giant ship, both the human and lizard-folk seemed awed, standing wit...

Salthan: Consonants: (12) bilabial labialdental | dental aveolar | postalveolar | retroflex | palatal | velar | Uvular | Pharyngal | Glutural Plosive t d Ɉ k Nasal n tap or flap ɽ fricative f Θ s ʃ h lateral aprox. l Vowels: (5) front near-center central near-back back close i u close-mid o mid ɘ op...

In a nutshell: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xhH0OePdL._SL500_AA300_.jpg (The Lizard-folk "language" in the game) :D Also, a bit of Latin (in that the language is very agglutinative. The script is heavily inspired by Arabic and Hindi. Edit: Darn those pwned.com changing my image on me. :P

Man, I wish I hadn't discovered this so late. Is it alright if I also come in late? So much catching up to do! "Feel free to use any species, as long as it is reasonably sized compared to a human." Aww. What, no four story tall dinosours? :D Just kidding. I actually did something like this on anothe...

Interesting post. Recently I've been trying to write the mythology stories for the Salthans, and I realized what I really need to ask is, what values are important to them, and why would they tell the stories, since it seems the purpose of the myths were to instil some sort of moral or practical lea...

"to follow Nalsiskitei" , a shapeshifter immortal that seduces and leads astray travelers (usually by taking on form of an attractive female, since most travelers are male).

Next up: (I hope this hasn't been done yet) To feel being treated unfairly.

Shinaschi - "Rotate meet" for something like a hinge that move sideways, such as a door hinge.
Shernaschi - A hinge that moves up/down
Darnaschi - A ball hinge (ball joint)

Next word: To compare

I don't think I've ever had a negative reaction the few times it's brought up. People either are uninterested (which is understandable, since not everyone's going to be interesting studying how language works) or seems at least somewhat interested and ask questions about it.

Soap: Maybe you thought you'd have to have one of those steaks (I'm pretty sure it's spelled different, but you were very young after all), and you really didn't like them? (EDIT: No, it's spelled the same , but it's named after a person, not the town) Hasas Dahasashui - "To be seized by Hasashui". ...

Matt: Ok. thanks.

Chuna: Good point.

Is this the difference between say "looking" and "seeing" (passive)? I was actually about to ask about this. I was recently working on Salthan and I realized that I don't really distinguish the two: "|aolanys dasana chisani" could either mean "we wasn't looking at the girl" or "he didn't see the gir...

I have a word doc, and a dictonary on my wiki.

Interested, but with work and moving I'll be busy at least until the new year. Maybe then. (I've been toying with some other RP projects actually as well)

As a matter of fact, I am in the middle of a role-play story at NationStates with different delegates from different nations visiting Saltha. It's been a lot of fun, and the other people are pretty good roleplayers. I've been intentionally kind of pushing elements of the culture in order to get reac...