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- Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:41 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Questions about elcari
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6275
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?
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:52 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44928
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...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:26 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: C^ascurento
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6324
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...
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: C^ascurento
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6324
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 ...
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Zompist
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7390
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...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:30 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Is Almea still used for RPG?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5845
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.)
(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.)
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:44 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322038
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...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Formal conventions in postcards
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2820
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...
- Thu May 14, 2015 10:31 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318597
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...
- Thu May 14, 2015 10:42 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318597
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...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:01 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ingroup versus outgroup pronouns
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8431
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'...
- 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: 228776
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.
Not a major one but I did pause to think about finding women on planes.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:40 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Poll: Favourite Almean languages
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23530
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...
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:44 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 186192
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.
- Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Zompist books feedback
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36820
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.
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.
- Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322038
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 ...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 426614
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.
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:39 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Ercunich Scratchpad [feat. expanded verb paradigm]
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5468
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...
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 ...
- Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:29 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377164
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 ...
- Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:11 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334488
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?
Or are they the birds they look like but also live in and are popular in Telemor?
- Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:07 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462186
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...
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462186
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...
Re: Babblers
Great. I was planning on a physical copy, so the lack of a Kindle version is fine by me.
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.