zompist bboard

Firstly, great to see some new pages! I looked forward to this to get to know the southern states more (though I?d really like skorene stuff myself?) Secondly, the link to the Axunashin grammar makes me feel it is very near, oh that tingles the bones! Thirdly, I like the banners! Though I am rather ...

Ghost wrote:

blank stare wrote:though of course people could just post in an Almean language in the first place...

They do.

Ghost

now and then...

Well, that brightened up my otherwise rather drab day

ok, just a question. looking at the map, i notice finland and switzerland aren't part of the european community. i can understand why the swiss ain't there, but any reason why finland? :roll: and as for that, why not the rest of the european nations? is it because they are only very recently indepen...

i certainly hope you get some luck, i know i'm really looking forward to reading babblers thats for sure!

Firstly, good to see a new page, and i really like the idea of this story. excluding the out of dateness, i really think with some work that could be a great story. 8) that rather dark future stuff is really cool my question (well, plain nosyness really) concierns this: "There's four novels sitting ...

Ah, nostalgia rules.

though back in 2000 my conlanging was terrible, unlike marks, which seems good all the way back!

Rory wrote:Oooh... Zomp, when Babblers gets published (note how we're all saying "when"; what faith we have in you!), can the ZBB members get signed copies? Personalised signed copies? I'd be willing to pay extra for one

indeed, definately! i agree with all that! a signed first edition copy!

ouch! i think ghost would rather forget that part of his zbb life somehow

I wasn't remined of tuvok actually, despite being a resonable voyager fan, i speak them slightly differently anyway, but i'm surprised i missed that really

I hear you Sal, i'm struggling there myself, but its something that i want to do. i've got about 8 or 9 non human sentient races, three are utterly different from humans though so thats not a problem, but the other five are still "too human" for my liking. Still, its a fun challange to make them uni...

Yes indeed, welcome to the board!

there's Barakhinei: http://www.zompist.com/bara.htm
There is also Wede:i: (incomplete as yet) http://www.zompist.com/wedei.html

and there is also the unpublished Axunashin and then Xurno scripts.

At least, those are the ones i know about so far

The medium voice in Greek is, as described, used for verbs that benefit the doer. But I don't think that there are any exclusively mediopassive verbs - I'm pretty sure that any of them can be expressed in the passive voice too. But that being said, some do not appear in Active voice at all. Welcome...

mmm, a almea themed tattoo, now thats an intresting idea

So Haleza Grise wrote:What worries me is the thought that Babblers might only get published if editorial changes were made . . . there are too many publishers who are like TV execs - fearful of difference and innovation.

Stop, thats just depressing

me want babblers, and probobly won't get it for a long time

Rory wrote:...shouts Whim from the bushes.

ROFLHAO!

Someone seems desprate. i want to see some more almea stuff to, but i've acceopted i can wait from working on my own stuff

all sorts of mistakes with latin. it took me a long time to work out how to use the verbs properly, i kept using the wrong tenses, partly because the names don't actually tell me what they do half the time :x that said, i've forgotten a lot of my latin now, but i've slowly gained in old english, so ...

Rory wrote:/sed/? Not /sEd/? And /wo?/? Not /wQ?/ or /wO?/?


/w@ i: sEd/ for my fast speech.

Damn my poor use of Xsampa

By the way, how do you pronounce "Shm"? It's an abbreviation (I think the Brits would call it a suspension) for shriftom The British term is contraction . (For those who are wondering, the difference is that a contraction includes the last letter of the abbreviated word ? like Dr for "Doctor" ? whe...

Ok, the program is semi-done. So far, it'll convert any Elkar?l text that requires only one face. I haven't implemented multi-face support yet (sounds fancy) because I have to leave soon; it won't really be very hard. The reverse transliterator should be easy too. So here it is: http://cgi-bin.spac...

vlaran of verduria wrote:oh and by the way i am from Verduria

i think we guessed that!

Mark did correct us about that pronounciation ages ago, even before he put the grammar up. i must say i also mispronounced it as well (that said, i've always visualised aidan as /aid@n/ not /eid@n/