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Re: Worldbuilding Techniques

Padraic Brown — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:21 GMT

... I can't really find where shades are particularly evil. I've usually encountered the term as synonymous with ghost. Presumably a shade could continue with

Re: Worldbuilding Techniques

Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:03 GMT

Sorry,l left out a few words by mistake. I meant to say, I have a rape victim, who jumps into this lake of fire to commit suicide, and the fire is magical,

Re: Worldbuilding Techniques

Charlie — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:31:16 GMT

... That is only a beginning definition. Are there other evil spirits in Yemora? If so, how are shades different? And what is the connection between shades

Re: Worldbuilding Techniques

Peter G — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:48:13 GMT

Uh, no. There are plenty of shades in literature, you just have to be well read. As for the rest of your post, while the words are individually clear, the

Re: Worldbuilding Techniques

Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews — Mon, 20 May 2013 01:27:30 GMT

Shades are evil spirits. There aren’t that many shades in literature, which explains why the net lacks info. Any Yemoran can become a shade if they’re evil

Re: Worldbuilding Techniques

Peter G — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:55:07 GMT

1 - what is your definition of a shade? 2 - Why, by all that is holy, are you changing your character yet again? 3 - Why are you creating yet another

Worldbuilding Techniques

Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:02 GMT

Have you read The Inheritance Cycle? If so, what do you think about the worldbuilding techniques? I admit the first book starts off slow in the beginning, but

Re: Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

Charlie — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:09 GMT

... What meaning is intended? "Me alegra" means "it pleases me." But "alegrarse" is a good reflexive verb "meaning to exult, to rejoice, to get tipsy". "Me

Re: Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

Padraic Brown — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:11:12 GMT

... That's what I was thinking as well, though that odd bushkesh threw me off! Could just be an ideosyncracy of the speaker / writer of that particular speech.

Re: Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

boroparkpyro — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:36:14 GMT

I gave up trying to figure out if there was a pattern to the n»m switch and the variance in "-dad" endings, but yes, in response to the original question, all

Re: Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

Padraic Brown — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:37:18 GMT

As far as I can tell, this is a fairly regular change in Ladino: http://www.sephardicstudies.org/ladinoa1.html Note forms like mozotros, muevo; but nivel and

Re: Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

Nat Harrington — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:33:48 GMT

*no doubt someone knows more, but I believe it's just a sound change in Ladino. hit send before I was done writing, whoops. le dùrachd, Nat ... *no doubt

Re: Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

Nat Harrington — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:32:15 GMT

I believe that's just how Ladino is, no? looking at the sample texts on Wikipedia, I see "muestro" for Spanish "nuestro", too. no doubt Nat ... I believe

Mueva Sepharad's Ladino

tomhchappell — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:05:07 GMT

Why does Mueva Sepharad's dialect of Ladino use where nearly every other Romance language uses ? I'm sure it was explained before somewhere but I

Re: Research Update

Padraic Brown — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:38:41 GMT

... Yeah, I don't think I'd include such a thing under "telepathy" as it's typically understood. This is certainly an application of technology (and I can