Re: Weekly Vocab #1.1.3 (repost #1)

Den 14. sep. 2006 kl. 01.33 skrev Henrik Theiling:
>
> Could you give some description of your langs?  I'd be very
> interested.
Sure. I have an introductory course in Urianian at http://
groups.yahoo.com/group/urianian/. I don't have anything similar for
the other one, but you can have a sample by visiting my home pages
(see below) and clicking on Gaajais in the right hand field. I like
that language very much and I'd like to set up a course for it as
well. But will anybody care? At least I'll have it for my own enjoyment.

> It'd funny that you try to find a language for the names you already
> have.
Well, I felt it was the natural thing to do. Giving my Urianians
life, so to speak. Language is life...

> In some computer games (e.g. Transport Tycoon), I used to name
> the cities by some random sounds in my head.  Still, I think they had
> a distinct and recognisable flavour.
Yes, that's what I noticed too, early on. I got an eerie feeling
often enough during the work, it was as if they really took on a life
of their own. I even have learnt a thing or two about their society,
its feudal structure and a widespread practice of child fostering
away from home, that I didn't know before. But fantasies do tend to
play such tricks. Maybe they are more than just air inside our heads...

> I don't even know how I named my capital.  I had two standard names
> that I always used: one for the capital, and one for another large
> city.
Could you tell us what they were? I am curious.

LEF

.....welcome to my home pages: www.ortygia.no.....

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