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Primarily, I tend to velarize /l/ to [l_G] (not all the way to [5]) in all positions, even word-initially and preceding front vowels. Normal "dark" l is still [5] for me though. I also tend to have lip rounding for /A/ when followed by velars, so I pronounce "long" something like [l_GQN]. The "o" di...

There's a discussion on Verdurian (but only Verdurian) poetry here; am unsure if there's anything about musical culture anywhere though.

...it causes you no end to confusion why surnames don't decline by gender (unless, of course, they actually do in your culture. ...your friends are annoyed that you keep referring to them by first and middle name. ...you refer to a light-hearted acquaintance as being "like water." ...you're amazed a...

What I would probably end up doing would be to - r-color vowels followed by r - pronounce word-final /I/ as /i/ - POSSIBLY pronounce <ë> as [e] or [E], particularly after alveolar/dental consonants - pronounce <c> before a front vowel as either [s] or [S] - pronounce intervocalic, but not word-initi...

According to the Almeopedia article on clocks: [quote author=Almeopedia]The sun (Ënomai) is of course a natural clock, and the model for most artificial clocks, and very likely all that was needed in neolithic communities.[/quote] On Earth, mechanical pendulum clocks were first invented in the north...

From the Translation Party thread:

dhokarena56 wrote: It: Quest is better situated. But very strange ... I do have my very original Sanskrit?
Me: Yes, it's really original. It has special sandhi, the nouns have an extra case, and the verbs inflect to show the number of limbs remaining on the patient.

Kebri has the problem of being mountainous, wait for it... so that limits its population somehow. wait for it... But Kebri is at the latitude of Japan BINGO! Kevin Bacon is spinning in his (future) grave. Not to mention the fact that both Kebri and Japan have languages that inflect for politeness, ...

I think all you have to do is put the font into the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts directory. You may need to restart your computer though. But if it's a netbook, I don't know if it works the same way. I have the Verdurian font installed, as well as three self-made Mebharan fonts and several other normal-fonts av...

No wonder so many Verdurians aren't particularly fond of Kebri!

"taming" is not the same as "domestication" In archaeological circles, at least, it is the same, but it's usually labelled as "Behavioural Domestication" instead to contrast with "Morphological Domestication", but it's just a synonym really. At some time in the past, then, we tamed wild case affixe...

vecfaranti wrote: I like the word bubble for recession/depression. It sounds more fun that way.

Except that a bubble isn't a recession/depression; the recession/depression is what you get when the bubble bursts. The bubble is an economic boom based on something that ends up being unsustainable, I believe.

Xephyr wrote:The hell? Did Zompist change the icon for Iseleaku or has it just been that long since I've seen one?

in the introduction thread for Irurala in Ephemera.

The trouble with extrapolating Terran cultural phenomena (such as a general decline in religion in areas of highly evolved science), precipitated by Terran events (such as the Enlightenment, among others), to other planets and other cultures is that we have no other frame of reference. This is the c...

rhotic: ["r\Vu.41k] dechticaetiative: [D@ bIg l_GQN di: wr\=d] affricate: ["{f.r\I.k@t] alveolar: ["{5.vi.%Vu.l_Gr\=] marathon: ["mE.r\@.TQn] Leviathan: [l_G@."vAi.@.Tn=] deixis: [dEi.Ik.s@s] prefaces: [p_hr\E.f@.s@z] ephemera: [@."fI.mr\=.@] chaotic: [k_hEi.Q.41k] liaison: [l_Gi."Ei.zQn] All of th...