Zomp has a website, you know.Xeon wrote:What about Flaidish? Does it have a fairly comprehensive grammar yet?
http://zompist.com/flaidish.htm
Zomp has a website, you know.Xeon wrote:What about Flaidish? Does it have a fairly comprehensive grammar yet?
Yes! Check www.zompist.comXeon wrote:What about Flaidish? Does it have a fairly comprehensive grammar yet?
Heheh. I never saw the link to the Flaidish grammar before.pharazon wrote:Zomp has a website, you know.Xeon wrote:What about Flaidish? Does it have a fairly comprehensive grammar yet?
http://zompist.com/flaidish.htm
:drools, followed by high-pitched yipping:zompist wrote:Who knows? However, I can answer the question "what have I been working on?" And that would be:Ghost wrote:A year and a quarter on, I really must revoice the old question:
What's next?
-- a full description of Meshaism (the religion of ancient Axunai, and the parent of Endaju?)
-- the grammar of Axunashin
-- a grammar of Old Skourene
Really? It means "the sword"? I don't know why I'm not surprised... The Catalan verbs brandar, brandejar and brandir mean "to carry a sword in the hands and moving it threatening".brandrinn wrote: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.
Izopiru wrote:Really? It means "the sword"? I don't know why I'm not surprised... The Catalan verbs brandar, brandejar and brandir mean "to carry a sword in the hands and moving it threatening".brandrinn wrote: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.
BTW, welcome to the ZBB!!!
I suppose that must be related to the English word brandish, with the same meaning?Izopiru wrote:Really? It means "the sword"? I don't know why I'm not surprised... The Catalan verbs brandar, brandejar and brandir mean "to carry a sword in the hands and moving it threatening".brandrinn wrote: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.
I've studied just enough Old Norse to know that .brandrinn wrote: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.
Catalan has lots of Germanic roots thanks to the barbarian invasions in the High Middle Ages, so I'm sure brandar, brandejar and brandir are related to some Germanic root. Anybody knows what is that root?Ahribar wrote:I suppose that must be related to the English word brandish, with the same meaning?Izopiru wrote:Really? It means "the sword"? I don't know why I'm not surprised... The Catalan verbs brandar, brandejar and brandir mean "to carry a sword in the hands and moving it threatening".brandrinn wrote: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.
Welcome to the board!
What kind of ideas do you have for Almea for its next, say, 200 years? Anything besides some of the monuments mentioned in the Civ II scenario, and, of course, the war between Verduria and Dhekhnam?zompist wrote:On the other hand, their thinking might change in the coming centuries as Almea becomes a modern world.
Zomp has mentioned this a few times as a likely possibility; the main factor is simply that the two are the most advanced, most significant states on Almea, in a position of direct competition, and with a (very) long history of mutual hostility. It's largely a matter of when.brandrinn wrote:war between Dhekhnam and Verduria? how do you figure?
If you could get to Almea right now, it would be Z.E. 3480. So I really don't worry much about what happens past that-- it's in the future. Besides, if I worked out Almean history to (say) 3680, people would just ask after the next two centuries.Iscun wrote:What kind of ideas do you have for Almea for its next, say, 200 years?
sorry, i guess i wasn't displaying enough sarcasm; my point was that such a war would a really obvious (which i interpreted as unimaginative) option for the future. however, if Zompist (should i call him Mark?) has mentioned it, im sure he has some ideas to make it original, so maybe i spoke too soon.So Haleza Grise wrote:Zomp has mentioned this a few times as a likely possibility; the main factor is simply that the two are the most advanced, most significant states on Almea, in a position of direct competition, and with a (very) long history of mutual hostility. It's largely a matter of when.brandrinn wrote:war between Dhekhnam and Verduria? how do you figure?
Well, sometimes in conworldry, obvious is unimaginative, and sometimes it's what would happen. Knowing the difference between the realistic and the cliche is one of the primary skills that goes into becoming a good conworlder, I think.brandrinn wrote:my point was that such a war would a really obvious (which i interpreted as unimaginative) option for the future. however, if Zompist (should i call him Mark?) has mentioned it, im sure he has some ideas to make it original, so maybe i spoke too soon.