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by Civil War Bugle
Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:41 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Questions about elcari
Replies: 4
Views: 5998

Re: Questions about elcari

Is there any prospect that linguists will discover more information on Elcari languages outside Erelae? Whether a complete grammar or any indication of family relationships or the like?
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:52 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Classical Composers
Replies: 103
Views: 42762

Re: Classical Composers

Are you sure that's The Man in the Iron Mask you're describing? The Man in the Iron Mask was a guy from the 1600s and the gimmick of the book is that he is the twin brother of Louis XIV if I remember correctly. It's been a long time since I read the book, but I don't recall the type of plot device y...
by Civil War Bugle
Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:26 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: C^ascurento
Replies: 6
Views: 6005

Re: C^ascurento

The fine gentleman appears to have vacuumed out my box where I keep my coin collection (doesn't want my paper money, I guess), so I am going to see if I can hack his computer (how did this guy get a computer? Did a wizard give it to him? Those dang wizards.) and get the promised information about hi...
by Civil War Bugle
Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:38 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: C^ascurento
Replies: 6
Views: 6005

C^ascurento

I have received a letter from one Shriftomo Chascurento who is very concerned about world peace and achieving harmony among all the thinking kinds and promoting equality between Ktuvoks, Uesti, Flaids, and so on and so forth. He says that if I send $1000 to a Viminian prince via bank transfer, said ...
by Civil War Bugle
Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:26 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Zompist
Replies: 12
Views: 6884

Re: Zompist

An adherent of zompism. Zoological Ontontological Metarealist Phenominalism, to expand the acronym. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a better explanation of this ideological viewpoint than I could provide, or Salmoneus could probably provide an entertaining ten paragraph summary. I am agn...
by Civil War Bugle
Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:30 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Is Almea still used for RPG?
Replies: 3
Views: 5573

Re: Is Almea still used for RPG?

Is permission to use Almea for RPGs still open?

(I don't currently know anyone I'd want to play an RPG with, and I've never GMed, but I've thought about stealing the setting or using your Maraille setting to try managing a game.)
by Civil War Bugle
Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:44 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 311432

Re: The dream thread

Last night I dreamt my dead husband had come back to life. He was contentedly sitting on a padded seat in a corner of the kitchen and I was wondering how to break it to him that he couldn't keep using that body since we'd already had it cremated. I had dreams like this for a long time after my brot...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Formal conventions in postcards
Replies: 6
Views: 2781

Re: Formal conventions in postcards

I am on the same website and will use Spanish with people (the only non-English language I speak which is common enough among other members for me to ever use it) and I almost invariably use tu unless the recipient is an elderly pensioner or something. I think that informal pronouns are broadly acce...
by Civil War Bugle
Thu May 14, 2015 10:31 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301510

Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot

It seems to me that the 'marriage lasts until death do us part' idea worked a lot better back in the day when mortality was higher and it was pretty plausible that you might be a widow/er in 5 or 10 years. Except, which days were those? Now, I'm too lazy to go and do the research again, but I remem...
by Civil War Bugle
Thu May 14, 2015 10:42 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301510

Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot

It seems to me that the 'marriage lasts until death do us part' idea worked a lot better back in the day when mortality was higher and it was pretty plausible that you might be a widow/er in 5 or 10 years. If your marriage is on the rocks, you can hope that hubby or wifey gets a cut from a rusty nai...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:01 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Ingroup versus outgroup pronouns
Replies: 42
Views: 8171

Re: Ingroup versus outgroup pronouns

What is the literal translation of господин? Google's translator also tells me it is Mr, but I remember in college, a Russian professor told us it meant gentleman or some such thing. I don't remember exactly how she translated it, but it was something like that, some formal-sounding term which wasn'...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:45 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Replies: 1058
Views: 221587

Re: Cheese that smells

Woman stung by scorpion found on plane

Not a major one but I did pause to think about finding women on planes.
by Civil War Bugle
Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:40 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Poll: Favourite Almean languages
Replies: 27
Views: 22889

Re: Poll: Favourite Almean languages

Using the super secret math that only I understand, I came up with this: http://i.imgur.com/v92UJUK.png Sorry for the digraphs; I am a lazy lady when it comes to charts. Xurnese is the clear winner, but aside from that the Eastern languages fared poorly. Also, nobody likes the classical languages C...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:44 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
Replies: 323
Views: 182651

Re: Weird phrases from real languages

I was wondering if he had Asperger's or something, similarly to how Eddy had all the effects of a troll but was able to point to having a mental syndrome.
by Civil War Bugle
Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:54 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Zompist books feedback
Replies: 73
Views: 35577

Re: Zompist books feedback

Re: The recent blog post

I hereby lobby for a Quechua grammar, and would be interested to know how near we are to seeing Hanying, if you have a forecast on that.
by Civil War Bugle
Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:49 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 311432

Re: The dream thread

The other night I dreamed that I was in a car, with my parents, at a christmas tree farm in the town where I grew up, and where I once worked one summer while off from school. Meanwhile, my brother was in India, where he was the dictator. India's territory, in my dream, consisted of the property my ...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:47 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
Replies: 2452
Views: 413547

Re: The Innovative Usage Thread

I was strongly against pronouncing the t in often when I was 9, but I've mellowed out since then. On the other hand, I was probably 16 or so when I realized that the b was silent in subtle, because I guess people around me didn't say it that often. :mrgreen:
by Civil War Bugle
Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:39 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Ercunich Scratchpad [feat. expanded verb paradigm]
Replies: 24
Views: 5383

Re: Celtich Scratchpad

I'm really disliking how I kept /v/ in words like cetvar "four", I think it looks fine in words like garv "course, rough" and aval "apple" though. But I think it makes it look a little different from the other Celtlangs. I am pro this conlang for essentially this reason (not that I am knowledgeable...
by Civil War Bugle
Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:00 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Babblers
Replies: 12
Views: 7837

Re: Babblers

I ordered and received the omnibus and am around 70 pages in. I am enjoying it so far and hope either that Zeilisio is not cuckolded or that he is dead when it happens, because cuckoldry seems like a possibility. On the other hand, if Beretos did that, would he even mention it? I am also hoping for ...
by Civil War Bugle
Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370359

Re: Happy Things Thread

FINALLY, a hyped astronomical event that was actually visible in Chicago. (Hitherto, "Set your alarm and look up to the skies on [date]" has been code for "It will be overcast and probably raining on [date]".) Yeah, it wasn't a true "blood moon", but a full lunar eclipse is still nothing to sneeze ...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:11 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323279

Re: Creativity of the day

Are those birds the usual birds they look like, or are they stand-ins for alternate National Birds of Telemor Which Only Live Here?

Or are they the birds they look like but also live in and are popular in Telemor?
by Civil War Bugle
Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:07 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448420

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

Actually, you're right, this is what I get for skimming too much. I somehow overlooked what you actually said in favour of what I wanted you to say. An attempt to placate Weeping Elf by sort of returning to PIE: I was going to get a couple of books on the subject out of the local community college l...
by Civil War Bugle
Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:52 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448420

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

I would totally use "thee/thou" if it wouldn't make everyone think I was a Quaker. :) I think you're thinking of the Mennonites; I've known quite a few Quakers, and they pretty much talk and dress like everybody else. Fun fact: president Richard Nixon was raised a Quaker. Quakers used thees and tho...
by Civil War Bugle
Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:14 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Babblers
Replies: 12
Views: 7837

Re: Babblers

Great. I was planning on a physical copy, so the lack of a Kindle version is fine by me.
by Civil War Bugle
Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:34 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Babblers
Replies: 12
Views: 7837

Re: Babblers

Will the omnibus and the book of Cuzei be released at the same time, or will one be slightly after the other? I am holding out for the omnibus and am just curious.