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I liked how the projection distorted the image, so we know you're thinking about it in spherical terms. I had a hard time trying to figure out exactly where the divergent fault lines were, though, at least in the north. The red continent changes direction; is that because a new subduction zone start...

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Doesn't WALS have info on this sort of thing?

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Derailing a discussion to make it about Korean? Don't mind if I do! Korean does use transliterations rather than translations. In fact, I (whipper snapper that I am) didn't even know there was a time when the transliterations were dominant. A few of them survive, mostly as "old timey" phrases. For e...

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To be fair, it is baffling when some hyped foreign food turns out to be crap. Mountain Dew is widely lampooned in Canada as caffeinated sugar water only fit for teenage gamers. The first time I tried fancy European bottled water I had a similar disappointment, which in retrospect is hilarious.

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In the first 21 pages of "Last Days [in Shanghai]" the word 'had' appears 99 times, of which 21 are used correctly as the past tense of 'to have' or in the past perfect or in the subjunctive, leaving 78 in error and giving an error rate of 79%.
Of the 78 in error ...

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I was trying to think if there are any unrelated languages that nonetheless have identical phonologies. Excluding that, what unrelated languages have the most similar phonologies? Off the top of my head I can think of Latin and Japanese (if you allow for different pronunciations of <r> and <u>), but...

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OK, I guess this will be the last map, then. Map 5! Visitors will find the east market full of activity, though Verdurians will find the merchandise overpriced and lacking in selection. The food carts and produce markets will prove even less rewarding. The regional delicacy is a stew called ashk, ma...

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So Haleza Grise wrote:
Hydroeccentricity wrote:I'm frankly surprised there isn't more fan fiction about Almea.
Mark has explicitly asked people not to in the past, I believe.

I've never heard that before. Is that only for narrative fiction?

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The next map, neighborhoods. Map Four! The official administrative divisions of the city are the North, South, East, and West Bargi, each divided into an arbitrary number of Thuri. Individual neighborhood names are all unofficial. To the east are the markets, foreign residences, and the main Eledhiz...

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I'm frankly surprised there isn't more fan fiction about Almea. Considering how many fans it has, nobody has ever tried to create anything related to it except for some of Eddy's weird short stories, and a few contributors to the Almeopedia.

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OK, since there is zero interest in this I'm just going to dump them twice a week. Here's map number 3: street names. http://i.imgur.com/mTn94ux.png Many of the larger streets have names in the genitive (e.g. Prozel Ponich Firich, “Street of the Faithful Warriors”), with the word prozel declining as...

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Here's the second map, the basic layout of the streets and defensive structures. Map 2! The center of the city is, due to the geographic limitations, surprisingly dense for a city of this size. Only the steep faces of the hills and mountains restrain the sprawl. Some lower class residential neighbor...

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Any ideas of what the city will be like before I post the next map? I was hoping for some rampant speculation like the kind my own imagination keeps making. Boulder houses? Bristling fortresses? Theaters full of bearded women? Nancy-boy Verdurians falling off a horse?

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The favorite Almean language poll reminded me of how much I love Barakhinei, which reminded me how much I love Barakhun. The more I thought about it, the more my mind was drawn to Barakhina, the capital nestled high in the mountains. What did it look like? Was it a mighty fortress from which the kin...

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Using the super secret math that only I understand, I came up with this: http://i.imgur.com/v92UJUK.png Sorry for the digraphs; I am a lazy lady when it comes to charts. Xurnese is the clear winner, but aside from that the Eastern languages fared poorly. Also, nobody likes the classical languages Ca...

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Third Place: Verdurian. It has a pleasing familiarity for I-E fans, and the Romance/Slavic combination pretty much guarantees a beautiful sound. Also it's hard not to like a language that has a strong dictionary and its own native grammatician. Second Place: Kebreni. The Monkhayic languages in gene...

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I'll let someone else choose the three squares on behalf of the Sacred Groves, since this was kind of a one-off for me.

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The map of South Island is very obviously South Island. Nobody's going to be fooled just because you flipped it. But I guess that's fine if you don't mind that. You could avoid the problem by pasting together pieces of multiple islands to make a new one. Someone did that once with satellite photos a...

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1. Da:zi
2. Pouzxat
3. Eastern Nespeks
4. Heresiarchs

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Munkee dressed for dry weather!

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From the ashes of the Torc's most recent empire, The Sacred Groves. http://i.imgur.com/IUVHQWi.png The Sacred Groves is the most common name for a confederation of city states along the rivers arising on the western flanks of the mountains on the northwest of Zamdae. Although they have at least some...

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Where can I get information about existing cultures, like the Torcs, etc?

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I plan to participate! Now I just have to pick a culture from the map...

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CatDoom wrote:Plus you can always have really ancient mountain ranges like the Urals right in the middle of a plate. They'll tend not to be very high, but can be extremely rich in exploitable mineral resources.

And rednecks. Conworlds never have enough rednecks, I find.

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Option 2 sounds a lot like Akana, but it could be fun. How would we decide which area to focus on?

Since we know we're going to run out of steam again eventually, I vote for anything other than option 3.

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