Hello? -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files ...
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Carlos Thompson
chlewey@xxxxxxxx.xxxx...
Feb 12, 1999 4:53 pm
For those already subscribed in this new list I will briefly comment on Hangkerim. Hangkerim is an alternative world culture. Is a milenary culture in a world...
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kljensen@xxxxx.xx
Feb 12, 1999 9:41 pm
OK... this is the first time I'm posting to this list. Just thought I'd let my presence be known. I'm sure many of you are already acquainted with Boreanesia...
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And Rosta
a.rosta@...
Feb 18, 1999 3:32 am
It was me that suggested a conculture list, and cc-ed to John as a tacit nudge for him to set one up from Onelist.com. I suggested it as principally for...
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Christophe Grandsire
Christophe.Grandsire@...
Feb 18, 1999 10:44 am
Hello there As I can see, I'm the 4th one to subscribe to this list. Shall we be able to send as many posts as are sent to the Conlang-l? :) Christophe...
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tony.harris@xxxxxxx.x...
tony.harris@xxxxxxx.x...
Feb 18, 1999 9:17 pm
Does anyone have thoughts on what should/shouldn't be included in topics here? For example, I could pop an Alurian recipe or two onto the list to get things...
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John Cowan
cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Feb 18, 1999 10:26 pm
For the record, we now have 23 subscribers, with new ones arriving daily. So far, we have had a lot of posts of the form "Would it be appropriate to..." The...
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tony.harris@xxxxxxx.x...
tony.harris@xxxxxxx.x...
Feb 18, 1999 9:53 pm
Here's the first of several potential recipes if people are interested. I have actually prepared all of the Alurian recipes for my family, which is how we...
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Hawksinger
hawksinger@xxx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 12:03 am
Just kidding. Several messages on conlang have pushed me towards joining this list at least on a trial basis (I know you were all waiting anxiously for me ;)...
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Pablo Flores
fflores@xxxxx.xxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 1:56 am
Well, first time I post to conculture, and I have a question: what's the [conculture] prefix that appears in all message subjects? I included it just for...
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John Cowan
cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 3:04 am
... The listserver does add it. It's intended to help people who want to sort list mail from personal mail. Therefore, whenever one makes a personal reply,...
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Carlos Thompson
chlewey@xxxxxxxx.xxxx...
Feb 19, 1999 3:48 am
After I had a harddisk crash recently :-( a lot of the unpublished material on Hangkerim and other projects, including my email folders, are lost... at least...
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Padraic Brown
pbrown@xxxxxxx.xxxx.x...
Feb 19, 1999 3:52 am
... I have the feeling that _many_ of the posts here will be of a mixt nature. ... bits! ... Now this is curious: does this "preparation of the land" include ...
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Adam Walker
dreamertwo@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 4:31 am
Hello, This is my first post, and want to let ya'll know a bit about the alien culture of the planet Shevbrelt. (I do not have any ideas about the languages of...
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Carlos Thompson
chlewey@xxxxxxxx.xxxx...
Feb 19, 1999 4:54 am
After Pablo and Padraic's postings on the dark side of their concultures... I would post on the dark side of Hangkerim. H. are very tolerant people in respect...
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Christophe Grandsire
Christophe.Grandsire@...
Feb 19, 1999 11:49 am
Well, I've been wondering whether I should post this or not, because there's a lot about conculture here, but also a lot about conlang. So, to solve the...
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Irina Rempt
ira@xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 10:01 am
... Me <fx: wave hand>. Irina Rempt, sort of youngish middle-aged (well, 41 next Thursday), married, mother of three girls, translator by trade, inventor of...
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Irina Rempt
ira@xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 12:15 pm
... This is a great place, where people know that! I was a member of a society of world-builders for a while, but the consensus there seemed to be that it...
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Irina Rempt
ira@xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 10:16 am
... Valdyan has two different words for lying. _Nayarla_ ("say something unreal") means that the message is not true, whether the speaker intended this or not;...
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John Cowan
cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 5:57 pm
... JRRT, who IMHO first discovered/published the connection between conlang and conculture (we really know almost nothing about artlangs before his time, do...
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Pablo Flores
fflores@xxxxx.xxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 7:40 pm
... to ... Oh, I don't love chopping people :-) I was thinking more of a Rohirrim-type warrior who goes singing to battle. ... certain ... No racial...
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Pablo Flores
fflores@xxxxx.xxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 6:41 pm
... a ... My comments: 1. Could you maybe explain the reduplication method? I've never heard of such a thing used grammatically (except in IE perfects). [This...
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Padraic Brown
pbrown@xxxxxxx.xxxx.x...
Feb 19, 1999 8:35 pm
... Well, it's certainly best to have the Truth on your side! ... A thorough preparation, indeed. [snip] ... One would imagine that these Ciravesu might be...
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John Cowan
cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 9:31 pm
... Rather than reposting massively, I will just point you all to the Brithenig/Kemr web page at ...
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Kristian Jensen
kljensen@xxxxx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 11:56 pm
After Pablo's, Padraic's, and Carlos's posts on the dark side of their concultures, I decided to post a "me-too". I still haven't worked out the details of...
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Kristian Jensen
kljensen@xxxxx.xxx
Feb 20, 1999 12:18 am
... I'll have to try that recipe one day, Tony. Reading the post made me curious about where the Alurians are from. The word "Laks" sounds like the...
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Hawksinger
hawksinger@xxx.xxxx
Feb 20, 1999 12:35 am
Fortunecity has once again lost my Nova, Nowan, and Feorran pages. I have had with them and will be finding a new home for all of them -- Brad Coon ...
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John Cowan
cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Feb 20, 1999 4:31 am
... [description snipped] Old Roman law knew this kind of debtor under the title of "nexus" (the bound one, roughly). If you are not familiar with this, you...
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hmiller@xx.xxxxxxxxxx...
hmiller@xx.xxxxxxxxxx...
Feb 20, 1999 3:44 am
Mizarian music uses various scales that are exotic from the point of view of traditional Western music. 15, 17, 19, and 22-note scales are the most common....
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Tony Harris
tony.harris@xxxxxxx.x...
Feb 20, 1999 4:26 am
... Well, Alurians are actually from another world. Earthlike, but not THAT Earthlike. Alurians are human in appearance only. This has had quite a bit of...
