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Eddy the Great wrote:I don't like sea otters. They drive up sea food prices.

Why not kill two birds with one stone and release a whole lot of sea otters off the coast of Japan?

My wait is for the list of Cadhniorian emperors.

Iscun wrote:Ah I see. Well, that's understandable. You have to stop somewhere.

Yes, but it should be at Z.E. 4480

Oh, well, there are always the endless realms of alternate-history

Yeah, that still makes two when you consider the definition of a gerund; nice try, though. I'd say that there are three, though: 1. The Participle (the singing people) 2. The Gerund (the people's singing) 3. The Present Progressive (they are singing) The Present Progressive is composed of the prese...

Yes it is. In English, there are two types of words ending in -ing: present participles and gerunds. A gerund is a verbal noun. If you can replace the -ing word with "to [infinitive]" and it makes sense, you have a gerund. If not, you have a participle. "Seeing as there are a number of linguisticall...

So it?s really "Śeginur" and "Kisni asenoso ngageṣorul" or "Kisni asenoso ngageşorul". By the way, it?s an interesting choice of sentence what with the Voom election going on. Is this a hint of future political developments to come in Zompistan?

zompist wrote:As for Almean underwear, interested parties will be able to find a picture of a Verdurian woman modelling lanika and bres.

And one modelling neither, too

I?ve heard of a French publisher that publishes literary English books.

ketske wrote:If we can't get the Axun??in grammar, I guess making philisophical statements about underwear'll have to do. ;

How about philosophical statements about Axun??in underwear? What kind of underwear do they wear in Verduria?

So in other words, The Old ZBB was far too productive and focused. Yes, but that was because every week Mark was revealing new episodes and maps in the history of Almea, so we had reason to keep focus. I know, I was there. Now that it takes so long for new revelations, you cannot blame us for wande...

PM_Vanhanen wrote:Here are some Verdurian words that look like Finnish words.

That shows that the original Finns were conquered by people from Almea, who of course died out because they were not interfertile, but not before passing down their language.

ketske wrote:Damnit, stop stealing my chefasco!

Hey, someone else is using my word! Double chefasco for me! We can add chefasco to the FAQ

Xeon wrote:What about Flaidish? Does it have a fairly comprehensive grammar yet?

Yes! Check www.zompist.com

Xeon wrote:The Langmaker countdown means nothing. Esperanto is #1 on it.

That tells *me* that the countdown is reliable.

Rory wrote:

Shm Jay wrote:There?s no word for prostate in Verdurian, by the way.

Zompist is a sexist!!!

In the completely non-sexist language of a certain country that has a v in it, the words for ovary/testicle and Fallopian tube/vas deferens are exactly the same.

con quesa wrote:Vas deferens?

That?s it!

You know, I don't think that I've said the word "uterus" in over six months. I can?t remember the last time I said ?ovary? out loud, let alone ?Fallopian tubes?. I ought to know what the male equivalent of a Fallopian tube is, yet I can?t remember it. Apparently they?re not words in Mark?s usual vo...

Jay, you forgot to ask Spacey how strongly it smelled, if at all. And any details of splash-back or missing the target :P Oh, yes, you?re right. Well, Spacey? By the way, I wish some philosopher, whether Almean or otherwise, would explain why urine is sometimes foamy and sometimes not. I would even...

Quite a few. Those just caught my eye, because I needed to urinate. Care to tell us about the experience? Was the colour yellow, or pale? Was the duration long or short? Did it foam up or just stay there? Did you make a noisy burble-splash into the water, or a dull hiss onto the toilet bowl rim? Di...

So Haleza Grise wrote:Since then I've always wondered if these are terms used by ktuvok grammarians.

Somehow I doubt that there exists any such creature as a ktuvok grammarian. How's that going to attract a mate?[/quote]

How do human grammarians attract mates, or do they have the same difficulty

And did it borrow the word "Porridgeton" for anything?

Same way as regular stamps are distributed: Canada Post will send the finished product to you. Of course, if you want to mail them you have to go to Canada (with extra postage added for US destinations), or else just use the stamp as a pretty picture and add the regular US stamp.

http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/collecting/default-e.asp?stamp=postage#create Anyone for the commemorative stamp of the 75th anniversary of Pere alautas i Cadhinor with a commemorative portrait of Shm Revouse? (Actually it seems to have to be a photograph. Is there a photograph of the drawing? :) )

As someone once said to me in another context when I was all bothered about something ahem, giant winking Tweety bird heads:

Why? Why not?

What ever happened to the "Swedish ambassador", by the way? You would think he would post here a lot. Was Verduria just a passing fad for him?