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by Raphael
Sat Nov 23, 2002 5:51 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Eledhat
Replies: 28
Views: 10060

Incidentally, in re-reading the history of Eledhat in the Historical Atlas, I was struck by just how dramatic the story of the first Elenicoi is: the Miracle of the Translation, the Elenecoi falling into a new world and their reception at Avela, the spreading of the faith, and Mihel and his followe...
by Raphael
Tue Nov 05, 2002 11:59 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Elcar
Replies: 29
Views: 9577

So Haleza Grise wrote:they have written records going back 15,000 years.
What, they invented writing before animal husbandry?
by Raphael
Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:39 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Lingography
Replies: 5
Views: 3027

Lingography

How can it be that Verduria, west of Ismahi, speaks Verdurian, Ismahi speaks a form of speach different enough to be considered a language of it's own, and Erenat, to the east of Ismahi, speaks something close enough to mazhtane to be considered Verdurian? I know that Ismahi is isolated by mountains...
by Raphael
Sun Oct 27, 2002 8:59 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Barakhinei
Replies: 19
Views: 7587

Well, if you see it like this, every language has male and female dialects.
by Raphael
Sat Oct 12, 2002 9:45 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Eyurcrivát
Replies: 1
Views: 2577

Eyurcrivát

Mark, you write that to Verdurians, poetry means "eloquent writing". But don't Verdurians have texts written in some kind of a regular way that are not eloquent? Like, say drinking songs, dirty poems written on toilet doors, rhymes used in children's games, etc? This doesn't seem to fit in with thos...
by Raphael
Sat Oct 12, 2002 6:33 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Xurno
Replies: 2
Views: 2938

Xurno

Mark, in your general introduction to Almean belief systems, you mention a Diary of the Prose Wars wich is said to have been translated into English. Does that mean that you've already written it? Don't get into shock or rage; I don't want to root for more publications, I just want to know to wich e...
by Raphael
Tue Oct 08, 2002 3:54 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Yonuz'u Wede:i?
Replies: 11
Views: 4492

But I personally get a little lost when people start talking about locative and genitive, and all that. Straightforward names would be a lot easier to understand. eh, that's just me. Which is why Tigerian only has the possessive case ending... In wich way is the word "possessive" simpler and more s...
by Raphael
Wed Oct 02, 2002 11:57 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Yceryru Kebri*
Replies: 27
Views: 10334

Re: Yceryru Kebri*

The Count of Years is... oh lord... over 70 pages now. I'm planning to post it in stages, as I did the Historical Atlas. Seventy pages allthough you've got almost all parts of it by now? Err, it's not that I would want to say something bad about your work, but I mean, the Count of Years is apparent...
by Raphael
Sun Sep 29, 2002 6:32 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Tidbits from beyond IE
Replies: 149
Views: 124851

IE

While you're talking about features of non-IE languages, one question: What, on the other hand, are typical Indo-European features? Are there things that all IE languages have in common? The numbers sound distinctly familiar in almost all of them, and the European ones have borrowed a number of poli...
by Raphael
Wed Sep 25, 2002 6:09 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Soa ulechea
Replies: 17
Views: 8740

Dream of Red Mansions - about the lives of several rich families and their various spoiled sons and daughters What, one of the most important works of Chinese literature is about the spoiled children of rich families? Don't Asian leaders always claim that the whole phenomenom of people being spoile...
by Raphael
Sun Sep 22, 2002 7:06 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Axunai
Replies: 18
Views: 9211

I'm not sure wether I would like to be ruled by sword-fighting riders who can force us normals to do practically everything they want, kill us at will without running much risk of being punished, have the legal right to be the first to sleep with a bride in the wedding night, and always get in troub...