--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@Y...>
wrote:
> > as a quasi-feudal poor country essentially
> > stuck in the ways of the 19th century.
>
> Dude! Learn a little about the US, (or any modern
> country) to find a thoroughly modern place with
> plenty of space left aside for backwardness and
> archaism!
Rednecks? Creationists? ;-)
> I'll bet France and Germany have their
> share, too. Oh, but silly me! Deutschland uber
> alles! How quickly I am put to shame by
> forgetting!
Not quite sure what you mean by that, but in dubio pro
reo I'll assume that you didn't intend to accuse Jörg
of Nazism. =\
BTW, for a conlanger who uses accents even in English,
you sure do omit a lot of umlauts. =P
> I think of IB as a huge garden. All around are
> well maintained lawns and thematic gardens. Maybe
> even an animal park. At the heart is stand of
> dark trees and in the middle a walled off space
> with an old fountain, a shabby gardner's shanty
> and an open pit. There is no gate.
Sounds a bit like a graveyard. =P But not unromantic.
-- Christian Thalmann