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vlaran of verduria wrote:And contact me if u c a grammar of TEOSHI lying around nywhere

Someone please tell me as well, when it shows up...

When I tried it about 20 minutes after Mercs post, it worked fine...

Mark says they're implosive, if i recall. I could be wrong, though. But of course, there are four major different sardinian dialects, some of which are no closer to each other than to standard italian, and a large number of odder minority dialects (eg, i recall there's one dialect in the north that...

the only European langs I can think of with one are certain Italian dialects with implosive d I believe you're thinking of Sindhi, which isn't limited to /d_</. There's imploded /b d J\ g/ and /d`/, I believe. No, Sardinian (not really a dialect) and some Italian dialects have /d_</ also, e.g. from...

My funniest mistake came in Spanish 1. I was talking to the new teacher, and I said about the previous teacher, 'Nos gustan Morir a Jos?', when I meant 'Nos gustan <kill> a Jos?' (Damn the dissapearance of my Castellano dictionary. I've got a New Mexican/So Coloradoan dictionary, but of course it do...

Ahribar wrote:So you weren't too far off... I make it 97, not counting dead languages. Like everyone else, I can't wait to see the day when all those are finished!

Given that 5 of the dead languages have a better attestation rate on Zompist.com than ANY of the Axunaic languages, I'd say we should count them.

Not to mention Old Skourene, Middle Shinourine, Old Tzhuro, and Munkh?shi. And Kaino.

I dunno about the rest, but the Qarau are just sleepy little farmers, and elsewhere (on the old board, I think) Mark writes that the Tzhuro and Lenani just leave them alone, given that Qaraumia has very little grazable land. I'd assume that, if invaded, they would('ve) fight/fought the Munkh?shi/Dhe...

Am I also allowed to say something off-topic? Shm Jay: with a s?pa ? Not cum s?pan ? Because as I read the grammar, I would think that a dative should follow with . He's writing in English, though. Borrowed words normally don't take their declensions along, except sometimes the plural (not even tha...

Zomp. mind if I borrow Arlemange of the Burning Mesa of the Barbarian Plains as the father of the dragons in my world?

Anyway, is the Burning Mesa of the Barbarian Plains equal to any actual place on Almea?

You wrote in the historical atlas: "The equatorial Zone of Fire has prevented significant contact and even trade between the hemispheres. Humans (uesti) in the northern hemisphere have not advanced beyond garden agriculture and tribalism, except in the Bekkayin states (an exceptional extension of N...

I don't know how you would consider a vowel harmony system like the one in one of my main conlangs, Kahrhtehno, to be. The 10 vowels of Kahrhtehno are put into a chart - vowels in a word can only be followed by the vowels that are adjacent to that vowel in the chart. For example the vowel 'ah' can ...

Maybe what he meant was that he phases in and out of existance...

Like a word meaning "to be a luna moth"? Does JBurke have any comments on this? Eddy, I do believe that Jeff is ignoring you. To answer your question, the word should be something like <flap-soft-(v)>. With a possible few extra determiners to indicate that you mean a Luna moth, and not a Hummingbir...

The Zone is not much less formidable at sea; the 250-km torrid zone is impassible by rowing or oaring, and the wind typically dies down to less than 10 km/h, forbidding sail transport at almost all times. Why exactly is the zone impassable by rowing? Same reason as on land: it's too hot to survive ...

Zompist wrote:The Zone is not much less formidable at sea; the 250-km torrid zone is impassible by rowing or oaring, and the wind typically dies down to less than 10 km/h, forbidding sail transport at almost all times.

Why exactly is the zone impassable by rowing?

I had a little bird and it's name was Enza, I opened the window and influenza! What's with small children and epidemics? Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down! I'd say it's because they can't seem to grasp the immensity of it (though I know there are many exam...

Dudicon wrote:Vitamin C all the way, in my opinion. Since I started taking it daily, I haven't been sick once, except for two instances where I had incipient cold symptoms which went away before they developed.

"Went away before they developed"...does that mean you were hyperhealthy until they didn't develop?

Are you telling me that Wede:i might actually be getting interrogative pronouns? Indeed! Could you give us some rough indication of how these languages differ from ancient Wedei? Have they changed a great deal? Oh, sure. I'm pretty happy with the Cuolese lexicon; and the morphology is going to be f...

IMD, "someone" and "somebody" are almost entirely synonymous. In fact, thinking it out, I can't come up with any instances where I'd prefer one over the other, so I generally just use "someone" because it's shorter. By the way, thanks for the new initialism, Dazi. :D Yes! We have finally created ou...

How do you wield armour? Easy! You carrymit in your arm and whack people with it. It's quite painful, really... *demonstrates in his brother* in your brother?? *and no, I don't use this because I think it is a Scots form...that would be something like <thay haed thocht>. Hmmm... I'm not aware of an...

Quarter-inch plate covered by chain mail wielded by an especially mad Scottish Highlander. That should stop the Katana. And, of course, ARMED WITH A CLAYMORE!!!! Ah, the Highland Claymore. The only sword I'm aware of that was primarily a bludgeoning weapon. 8) Glory to the Highlanders!! Ever since ...

The art of Bushido is designed to defeat the enemy with just one fluid movement--generally the first move in a fight is the last--the fights we see in Samurai movies are rare. Rightly--samurai swords are built for slashing, swords like a bastard sword, long sword, or hell--even a zweihander--are bu...

I'm just wondering whether Zompist might some day set up a weekly radio news program in Verdurian via the Net. Those learning the language or anyone can listen to the broadcast, and follow the transcript at the same time. I'm sure it'll be great fun. And what about Verdurian songs? or a karaoke vid...

But if you actually want anyone to look at your website, universal format and ease of use should be among your absolute highest design goals. Use the most universal formats (fonts being a kind of format for these purposes) you can get your hands on, and absolutely Do Not require that you're readers...