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'Tis alright. I think there are some of us who've been waiting for the Xurnese languages for over 3 years, so it hasn't really been that long for Flaidish.

Raphael wrote:The last paragraph of Mark's post gives a clear "maybe" as an answer to that question- from what I know about Mark, he seems to like retaining some mystery about some things sometimes.

And you've been on these boards for quite a while, eh, Irgend?

Well, last night I was just tired enough to go through and count transivity for Proto-Eastern verbs. This is what I came up with: -m [/i]:with 2 exceptions (la:dam go and nem be born ), all are transitive. -k [/i]: with 1 exception (alirek live ), all are transitive. -r [/i]: with ?4 exceptions (dem...

OK, looking back at the Isma?n page, I meant the letter for s.

Dunno about Isma?n, but like French dix [dis], [di], etc.

Another question: Where did you come up with (or rather, they come up with) the letter for ??

I was wondering, did I get this right (or at least close?) It's the final theme song from MST3K: Mike: "In the not too distant future im řo ret tro ?anmen somewhere in time and space tic? im diďan er reďunat?n Mike Nelson and his robot pals Mihel Nelsen er li? niruomĭ drukĭ are caught in a nasty pla...

Bilabial Trills!

I don't let Word create html versions; it creates a mess. And a huge, 200MB mess at that. Q: Are you going to take the FTP'd grammars down, now? On second thought, don't. Then we can have the tedious, linguistically-balanced grammar of Cadhinor. I'm sure that you're going to change the VV main page...

Well, in the days that the Cu?zi grammar has been up, I've gone through the whole thing and there doesn't seem to be much different except for the examples.

I had a strange dream last night. I was looking at the Virtual Verduria homepage, and the language section looked something like this: Verdurian Cadhinor Isma?n Proto-Eastern Barakhinei Elkar?l Flaidish [/b] Cuzei . Xurn?sh Yes, it was Cuzei , not Cu?zi . And I do not know why Wede:i wasn't on there...

Glenn Kempf wrote: I'm interesting in anything new!

Hear Hear!

Whoa, you have an old version of the Cuezi grammar? Link, please! here it is. It also has a linguistically balanced Cadhinor grammar. And I'll add a vote for Xurn??. Also, are you (Mark) planning on using Unicode anywhere else? Perhaps, writing the newer ones in Unicode, and switching the others al...

ranskaldan wrote: I can't wait to go back to the days of checking every week for updates.

That's so fun! It drives my parents crazy!

Well, a Cu?zi grammar is probably coming soon... I haven't really thought about Arc?l... personally I'd root for more on the Axuna?in/Xurn??~Xurnese, religion or no. Flaidish could be fun...
One question though: Do you have much on the Western/Somoyi-Methelyi languages?

Aidan wrote:poleis (correct pluralization?)

Close. Polēs. Tho there could have been a dialect with ei.

Jaaaaaa wrote:Is there a privateer business like there was in Europe some centuries ago? Or do nations just keep their own navy and leave it at that?

Thanks for reminding me about that. I almost forgot about my dear pirates.

The Ktuvok have language don't they? You might have posted somehting about it but i didn't find it. If they do have a language what is it and will you be posting it anytime soon? I've gone through All of Virtual Verduria, and I can honestly say that I've never even seen a reference to Ktuvok langua...

eodrakken wrote:Topic! What kind of criminal justice procedures are followed on your conworlds? I have to admit that's an area I've skimped on, even though I enjoy reading about the law.

I haven't fleshed mine out either, but it is based on blood feuding, with a concept of wergeld, (in Drydicam, kjaudr).

As far as the "workings" are concerned, I'm not sure wether they'll be very unusual. Xurnash is an Eastern language, so it's grammar is probably not that confusing. Actually, if Xurn?š is anything like Axunašin, it will be very different from Verdurian, Cuezi, Cadhinor, and any other Eastern Langua...

The 'Giantish' wasn't inspired by Entish, was it? The general description sounds very similar. It seems that your reality has a more direct opposition of Giants : Ogres, while Tolkien has Ents : (some trolls), Dragons.

Well, that would be a neat explanation, except that the printer does them fine when I print the files from Word(pad). Well, guess it's one of those things that Micro$oft won't fix.

Does anyone know why, when I print anything off from IE or Netscape, the ā , etc. (but not the Greek and Cyrillic) show up as blank spaces (and the t', d' show up as t<space>, d<space>)? This is VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY,...

A question:
for Benecian and Beshbalicue, you state in the 2000 posts that they use a pre-reform orthography. Are you ever going to elaborate on this? Might this be jumpstarted into a study of Old Verdurian?

And you can make judgements without preferences.

Mind you that

zompist wrote:Avélan chauvinists like to describe their speech as a "sister language" of Verdurian.

Other than that, good question. Anyone care to speculate?