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boomajoom wrote:Erm...I hate to be a nag...but nobody's posted the Latin > Italian changes yet.

That's because they're pretty boring and uneventful in comparison.

zompist wrote:

Guest wrote:Back to the topic of this thread, someone should make some zompist.com merchandise and sell it on http://www.cafepress.com

:ch

Someone shouldn't, unless they're me.

Whoa man, that sentence is fucking with my brain

The Algonquian person hierarchy is an interesting quirk. In Cheyenne, it manifests thus: 2nd 1st 3rd 4th Inanimate person Whether a verb prefix marks subject or object depends on which person is higher up on the ladder; 2nd person prefixes are always subjects; inanimate person prefixes are always o...

And Pharazon, you complained when you took up Italian after I took Catalan (which I'll do next), and now you got a request for it! :P That's because the difference between Italian and Latin, phonologically, is about the same as that between Mississippi and Alabama English. Italian and Latin aren't ...

And Pharazon, you complained when you took up Italian after I took Catalan (which I'll do next), and now you got a request for it! :P That's because the difference between Italian and Latin, phonologically, is about the same as that between Mississippi and Alabama English. Italian and Latin aren't ...

Addressing the topic of this revived thread, I think Mark should advertise Almea by dropping flyers from buildings during parades, adding inserts to urinals that say "ZOMPIST.COM", releasing a mix CD of today's best [sic] pop hits "brought to you by ZOMPIST.COM", etc.

zompist wrote:Most of it would have been done in the six months before it was first posted.

So around 2001, 2002.

That predates what I did by a few months.

Damn.

When did you start working on it, Zomp?

I just now gave the grammar a decent look, and I noticed that an awful lot of it is eerily similar to a conlang I did in the past. I'd just like to know who got to what first.

The biggest influence is the fact that people want to see stuff. I'm insane enough to have posted the LCK and Virtual Verduria before knowing that anyone would actually read them, but without people expressing an interest, I would have done much less. You can't perform without an audience. (Also, b...

Are the embolded "t"s seperate phonemes, like retroflexes, or are you slyly trying to give us info about some upcoming work? In fact they are retroflexes... Old Skourene had a set of dental and a set of retroflex stops, fricatives, and liquids. I rock. Could you do me a favor, Zomp, and say "Spacey...

Could you give us some samples (of the names' meanings)? Some of them are very interesting. OK... these are subject to change, and for now I won't explain how they mean what they mean, nor why... Teralam - the great hand Min t u - they rejoiced Kolatimand - of the great sleeper Nemi t ali - the pla...

I think it comes as a given that all of us here who conworld/conlang been influenced by Zomp's methods of conworlding and presentation (maybe not in imitation) to some degree. But I wonder about the effect the other way. What kind of effect do you think the board has had on Almea? Quite a lot of ma...

Eddy the Great wrote:These Elcari sound like cool people.

But are they people?

Interesting reflections... we really need some access to ktuvok skins to experiment on. Some fishes (I think I'm recalling this correctly) have skins so tough that a surprising amount of force is needed to puncture them-- they resist even a sharp scalpel. That's partly what I had in mind, I think. ...

Interesting question. But I must agree (as much as possible) with tha Zomp. They would be smart to have a skin tough enough to resist the most frequently used weapons. But then again, what is more penetrating (searching for an answer on the real question)? I'm pretty sure a knife is much more penet...

The skin of their chest and back is thick and heavy enough to resist a knife or arrow (though not a spear or sword). This struck me as being kind of odd, because of the mechanics involved. A stab from a knife tends to have more penetrating power than even a bullet (they can tear through many kevlar...

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

Like subatomic particles in open space.

So you pronounce extant the same as extent ? Just checked the OED; it gives both pronunciations ["Ekst@nt] and [Eks"t{nt], but the first (which matches mine) is given as more usual. Hmm... I've never heard ["Ekst@nt] before... What he said. I have <extent> and <extant> as [Ek."stInt_}] and ["Ek.st@...

finlay wrote:Can I point out that /ks/ is two phonemes in English, not one. Ahribar implied that it was one.

How can you point... when you have no fingers? *causes all of Finlay's fingers to melt together into one mass*

Earth's axial tilt is one of the many very lucky factors that have made Earth habitable and condusive to intelligent life. If I remember correctly, Earth's tilt is caused by the moon (I could be mistaken, however). The moon is very important. So is our distance from the sun: Venus probably once had...

Ok... The thing is, I've been trying to figure out races to use, and it's harder than staying awake over The Dawn of the Dead. However, I don't wan't many races and if I look over the Monstrous Compendium or something I want so many races... Ooo! A pop culture reference! Man, Marky-Mark Rosenfelder...

No, it's supposed to be more complex than just page hits.

JH was smarter than to do that... just page hits would lead to bombing.

Sam and Max is a comic-turned-mellowed-TV-show-turned-videogame.

I also dislike creating roots, although I tend to take a lot of mine from Sumerian for some reason.

Hey, my uncle and grandpa got inked today. If I could, I'd put pictures up for everyone to see.