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Warmaster wrote:Otters be the featured picture on wikipedia today......

Damn you, I wanted to point that out.

I know the whole Anas thread has been officially quoted here, but for some reason I found myself laughing particularly hard at this little sentence: Maybe it is good that you visit one of your charming institutia that you have here, such as the psychedelist or the straitcoat. I just hope Ms. Osperpu...

A volcano that spews cold water. I've heard of ice volcanoes (on one of Jupiter's moons) but not water volcanoes. That's called a fountain. :wink: How many natural fountains have you heard of, aside from seaside blowholes? Well, there're geysers, aren't there, except they're hot water rather than c...

If I'm doing everything correctly, I'd be Icovo Řistei Bulondom in Verdurian. Don't ask me to try the others ... one language is quite enough.

Tarhun wrote:is it bad form to dredge up a topic this old?

'Cause not. We can't let OTTER die. I'm mean ... it's OTTER. OTTER! It's just ... you know ...

The dictionary is your friend, Veg.

Catbird, apparently. Quite why, I'm not sure.

If Mark would be the only one to edit it, then it seems like a wiki would be kind of useless, since a wiki's major advantage is that anyone can edit it. Well, a simple database utility like a wiki would be convenient. I've often run into a similar problem on my site - I get lots of interesting idea...

You make it sound as if Zompist conlangs purely for our benefit ... I imagine (and I may be wrong) that the real reason he does it is because he gets some enjoyment out of it ... :) I'm sure he'll get around to it at some time, when he feels like it. Don't rush him though. He's only going to start m...

This is making me feel depressed, useless and all the general rest of it ... s'pose it's the best I can do to offer Mark a smiley or two:



Sehr goodness. Incredible, actually.

It won't end; at least, it won't ever be finished. Things like this can't be. There's always something more to do.

zompist wrote:

Death of Ophelia wrote:I always pictured it to be a very thin atmosphere, somewhere in the vacinity of 45-48% the density of Earth's.

I don't know why you'd picture it that way... It's similar to Earth's.

That's what I thought. And I was right, clearly.

Other densities would only cause problems ...

Maknas wrote:Remember that all of those are approximate. When the thematic dictionary mentions an Earth animal, Mark means some similar to that aninal, but not the same.

It says that on the page, anyway. Although I don't think it matters that much ...

There do seem to be some sort of ears in Mark's 'If ktuvoki were waiters' drawing, at least. Like Mornche said, they don't stick out much.

Nice picture.

If he wanted it to be as Indo-European as it is, he shouldn't have tried to pass it off as an "international language." He had covered most of Europe as well as most of the countries founded by people of European descent in other parts of the world- back then, in the opinion of most of the people i...

Is there a zero? Because I don't even know the names of most of the languages, let alone how to speak them.

Not that I don't admire Zomp's work or anything, but a) I don't have any reason to learn it and b) I'm useless at learning stuff anyway.

Similar to Latin and the Romance languages, it would appear ...

vegfarandi wrote:Maybe Zompist didn't remember when writing the Historical Atlas.

How could the great Zompist forget that? Even I remembered to include the odd epidemic when creating my somewhat patchy history of the Vix-Or.

Good point, though.

Otters are OK, but they're not really of interest to me. Animals which are are the badger (as with many people, it would seem - although my badger's been stolen) and the rabbit. The former is due to a crazed obsession of a friend of mine, the latter because I am a rabbit . Yes, you read that correct...

Bunny suits, hmm. As it so happens, I have a thing for rabbits. So much I've recently set up the International Federation of Rabbits. If you are a rabbit, if you think you are a rabbit, or if you would like to be a rabbit, this is the association for you. I'm thinking of drawing up a rabbit language...

Cadhin. Because ... because I would.