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The Xurnese are great exporters of their own religions; but they have no interest in those of other civilizations-- anything that's worthy of interest religiously or philosophically will have already been explored within the Axunaic sphere. Hmmph, reminds me of a certain people known in Esperanto a...

I'm not familiar with that one; could you say a word or two about it? Off the top of my head, which might be wrong, it was the official Catholic English translation until relatively recently, and was a translation from the Vulgate by Catholic scholars in the English Catholic colleges in Douai and R...

I am reading the Bible in four translations: 1. The good old Douai translation 2. The old King James translation (notice my subtle bias) :D which I am reading for literary purposes, but I actually like Douai better. 3. The Bible in Esperanto (everyone ooh and aaah here :mrgreen: ) 4. The New America...

Emai! Here?s a challenge for you all: Verdurian cataloguing terminology! I need the following translated into Verdurian, made consistent with the culture, and posted as a ?picture? so I can cut and paste it and use it in a lecture for librarians I will do in a couple of weeks. It is in MARC21 (catal...

I thought we were going to add new ranks, not completely replace them. Oh well, at least I don?t have to hop around on one leg any more.

Perhaps since the ranks are names of generic species, zompist could add extra ranks of famous individuals, such as Shm Revouse, the emperor Erv?a, the warlord who invented Jippur-worship, some famous artist in Xurno, etc.

Babblers has a complete manuscript; Mark has been shopping around for publishers for a little while but so far has not found any that are keen. Turn it into an interminable ten-book fantasy and then they?ll bite :roll: Unfortunately, interminable fantasies are what fantasy readers want. My favourit...

PLEASURE DOME: a place of pleasurable entertainment or recreation : RESORT Well, why would that be in the slangy sexual terms :? Does it only refer to the kind of thing Frankie Goes to Hollywood (for those who were teenagers in the 80s like me) would sing about? Or, in other words, you would not ta...

http://www.zompist.com/thematic.htm#41 :D 8) :D I see the Boardlord has thought of everything already. By the way, what?s a pleron?e ? (I?ve never heard of the English term.) Perhaps the definition should be in Verdurian so as not to scandalize people. Also, going to the ?Secret Verdurian? page, wo...

a penis that has a glans, That feature must have confused the local doctors. :wink: Did any famous doctor discuss it in their anatomy treatises? What sort of name did they give the glans? Probably a word based on φαλλος or βαλανος or κρομμυδιον [little onion, which English word I?m sure I read in s...

Ah, good point. OK, cancel that order for narrower feet. With all this foot discussion, I feel like I?m blundered into George DuMaurier?s novel Trilby ! :D http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/ttrilby.html One of the reasons why Trilby was such an exciting person is that she walk...

More logical implications (not so silly this time) 1. Elkaril writing, drama, and statuary must have a symbol to mean ?This is a person?s real face and not a word.? Perhaps a star in the middle of the forehead? 2. Elkaril drama does not go in so much for clever costumes and make-up as our own. Inst...

The nice thing about Zompist-land is that the owner/creator is mature enough to appreciate satire and facetiousness :wink: :wink: I hope :? I can tell you, in some conlang places, saying anything else to the author but ?Oh you?re great, wonderful, so clever, I want to have your baby? will get you mo...

Logical implications of the writing system (some silly) 1. If the Elkaril are at all given to superstition, they must try to make their faces and features like pleasant and good-omened words. In the elcari lands, there must be an interesting distinction between exclaiming ?You look like death? and ...

Iscun wrote:

Is that how you'd write "zh?m-p?sht"?

Maybe you can add the glyph for {bbood}, since bb is a phoneme in Elkaril, and then we can have something interesting for the title.

P.S. Shm Jay--thanks for sharing your use of Elkaril profanity (elcari road rage! Interesting...) Perhaps you say a few kind words in Verdurian and tip your supa to kind drivers? :) :) I will have to be very courtly and look up some expressions in Cadhinorian. "Thank you, kind wagon-driver" will pr...

I would have made an illiterate elkaril :x I was poor at art even as a child. Speaking of elkaril, I find it amusing, yet useful that certain words are used in the grammar. I refer to l?p?d . It gives me something fresh, new, yet opaque, to exclaim in the car when I encounter some bad driver on the ...

I'm surprised there isn't a cursive script for writing quickly. Writing must be extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming if you have to draw faces all the time, and so must be used only for important things, not for grocery lists.

Anonymous wrote:
Its full name is (Won't You Take Me To) Funky(town). But residents call it Funky for short.

The people of that town bathe so much less often than most people in the area

Why would anyone have felt the necessity to borrow the word scagantos?

They?d also be thinner than most Americans :roll: Please have the person who tries to invent fast food be a wizard, who then finds his spell makes him suddenly grow fatter and fatter until he finally explodes in public :!: and be such an awful warning that it puts everyone off the idea :mrgreen:

I?m surprised that there are enough natural resources left after the long civilizations and wars of the Elder Races that the humans can build any sort of civilization that uses metals.

I would be intrigued to read for a change about a culture that had an advanced relaxed different attitude towards flatulence (...) Gah, it's been done, and I'd much rather have the sex. Where? Where? Who wrote it? I want to read it! :mrgreen: I think you're mistaking frankness for permissiveness. T...

I guess I thought the creation of the universe would be a topic for high language. I liked the story of the giants and the ogres and the war between them. It is nice and charming and courtly. Though it must take about half an hour just to say in Giantish, "Please give me a glass of water". I can jus...

I sort of like the Count of Years so far. I will enjoy it more when it gets to history. As for the first gōutāne, I think you would have better put the passage in Verdurian, if not Cadhinor, for the same reasons they used to put such passages in Latin. It made me :roll: and :oops: and giggle at the ...