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by Salmoneus
Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:02 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Calto's Symbol
Replies: 34
Views: 12388

OK, I actually like the Ahriman one. That's becuase its black and in Avestan. Its difficult for something to be in Avestan and not look nice. Black sunburst? Good from an appearance point of view (though I prefer fewer straight lines in tattos, particularly on shoulders), but otherwise quite... wier...
by Salmoneus
Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:09 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Calto's Symbol
Replies: 34
Views: 12388

[While the silliest religious sign is the zoroastrian man-in-a-spaceship.... you're not getting that one, are you?] To be honest, I despise the way coloured tattoos look. And, indeed, almost all representative tattoos. They just look so ugly - and when they start to fade, and wrinkle, they look even...
by Salmoneus
Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:04 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Calto's Symbol
Replies: 34
Views: 12388

I'd just like to say that I consider that religious sign to be simply immensely brilliant. So simple, yet so powerful.
by Salmoneus
Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:16 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Iilu healing question
Replies: 39
Views: 12009

Yes, we normal and healthy people just invent elaborately detailed fantasy worlds that are just as distasteful as the real one. Leaving behind one imperfect world, we expend our energies creating other imperfect worlds. That far more rational than escapism, and infinitely more rational than attempt...
by Salmoneus
Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:00 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Iilu healing question
Replies: 39
Views: 12009

Yes, we normal and healthy people just invent elaborately detailed fantasy worlds that are just as distasteful as the real one. Leaving behind one imperfect world, we expend our energies creating other imperfect worlds. That far more rational than escapism, and infinitely more rational than attempte...
by Salmoneus
Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:11 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: !X?? phonology
Replies: 36
Views: 32974

Nuorese? Does he say where that's spoken? I hadn't heard of it.
by Salmoneus
Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:33 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: !X?? phonology
Replies: 36
Views: 32974

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'...
by Salmoneus
Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:37 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: A small question on Ismain pronounciation
Replies: 14
Views: 4965

Yes, I know. Although I think laminal refers to any sound where the articulator is the blade of the tongue, rather than the tip - no matter how far back from the tip it may be. My /S/ has the frication caused by the blade, far back. My /tS/ has an apical /t/, and then the /S/ starts apical and moves...
by Salmoneus
Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:51 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: A small question on Ismain pronounciation
Replies: 14
Views: 4965

IMI, its completely unapical. Tip of the tongue is behind the bottom gums. Except in /tS/, when it starts apical and moves laminal, but nnever as laminal as by itself.
by Salmoneus
Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:52 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: A small question on Ismain pronounciation
Replies: 14
Views: 4965

Whimz, as you know Mandarin, could you help me with the alveolo-palatal fricatives ? & j . They're a bit confusing to me. I'm flattered that you'd ask me, especially since I know about 20 words in Mandarin. Nevertheless... Like /S/, but laminal, would be a close approximation, I'd say. And <j> is t...
by Salmoneus
Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:17 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Flaidish 7 and "flaid"
Replies: 26
Views: 9244

-u is only 2 or 3 away.
There is no gu or zu, and fu only occurs in chinese phrases, never by itself.

-ie is 5 away: no iie, oie, qie, xie or zie.
by Salmoneus
Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:18 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Flaidish 7 and "flaid"
Replies: 26
Views: 9244

Like ad, bad, cad, dad, fad, gad, had, jad, lad, mad, pad, rad, sad, tad, yad, and wad(ok, so maybe not wad). If you don't mind being archaic, you can add oad and xad; various british dialects yield vad and zad, while US slang supplies nad. There's no ead, iad, kad, qad or uad, but there is eadi, an...