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vegfarandi wrote:Brandur means sword, mostly used by RPGers nowadays though.

Pardon my ignorance, Veg, but what's a RPGer?

It's Old Norse, actually, so yeah, it basically is Icelandic. It doesn't mean anything special ("The Sword"), I just couldn't think of anything better at the time I registered. Really? It means "the sword"? I don't know why I'm not surprised... The Catalan verbs brandar , brandejar and brandir mean...

Xeon wrote:

Izopiru wrote:Well, maybe the main problem of Esperanto is that sounds ugly for a lot of people and it's too 'recognizable'... too indoeuropean.

That was Zamenhof's intention.

Why? I think is better to base a worlwide auxlang on more than one linguistic family.

Esperato sounds too Romance to be an international language. Amusing how the only attempts at such things I've heard of are done by Europeans, and they all sound like Romance languages. Zamenhof wasn't nearly creative enough for my taste. I speak a Romace language and Esperanto doesn't seems to me ...

Special "pronouns" - y ( locative + it) and en ((some) of it) also in Catalan: hi "locative", en "some of it". This pronouns are called pronoms adverbials in Catalan Word order when dealing with object pronouns - Object pronouns are placed between the subject and verb. Ex. Je vois le gar?on vs. Je ...

Shm Jay wrote:I say

Escabetx!

and

Salmorra!

S?, com les anxoves de l'Escala!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Tant de bo les pogu?ssiu tastar, no sabeu el que us perdeu!!!

Has anybody translated into verdurian the Ring Poem (The Lord of the Rings)??? I'm very interested in the different translations of this poem.

Hello! I'm new at the Zompist bboard. First of all, I apologize for my english, isn't too good. Anyway I understand english. I also speak catalan and spanish, so you know... I have a question for Zompist (or else who can answer): what is L?catur? I think it's a city or a village, but I'm not sure. A...