Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 13, 1999, 16:56 |
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Gary Shannon wrote:
> > Not so strange, really. When I was a kid I used to love to draw maps of
> > imaginarey lands. I still admire nicely done works of concartography.
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> Me too. In fact, I have a roughly-drawn, periodically revised, map of
> the Continent (the one continent on Terra Nova). I wonder if many other
> conlangers/conculturers were the same way?
Yep. From the world the Telarians inhabit, I have two works "A Brief
Account of the History of Hoopelle" and "Current Master Maps of The State
of The World (1655 ed.)" The first has rather extensive historical maps
of the area in question from the 2nd millenium BCE up to the end of the
2nd millenium CE, which marks the final demise of the Empire (under human
proprietorship at any rate). The latter is surprisingly well done
considering its age (now about 10 or 12 years old), with maps of the
Empyre of Hoopelle, the Alarycan continent, North America, Afrika, etc.
with the famous Sunken Country of Gurran, where the sea is about a fathom
deep and the prime cities of Carn Ella and Darava rise brilliant and white
litteraly from the briny (not so) deep. They've given up cattle and
sheep for dugongs and fish. nice fisssh.
I've also got a dialect map for Hoopelle and environs, detailing who
speaks what and where (though a bit out of date anymore).
Of course there is also the dialect map and a political map of Kernow, and
somewheres around the beginnings of a map of Kemr.
Padraic.