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Heya all, just catching up on the Lyst here. :-) Just to start out, here's the links to the two widely used D'ni fonts if they haven't been posted here (still...
ba_relyima
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Nov 7, 2003
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... really ... That's a good point. The history is really an integral part of the language, and is the best way to make meaningful our limited vocabulary,...
Mari Jade
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Nov 8, 2003
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Hi all, I've got a question to throw out to y'all. How do you think the D'ni would have written the names of their guilds, when referring to them and not...
domahreh
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Nov 14, 2003
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... Very good questions. When we came up with rehtehlok tsoonootahntee, (The Guild of Greeters, we went with the latter, primarily because we didn't have ...
dave_3rd
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Nov 14, 2003
9:31 pm
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Not exactly prevailing winds, but something I came across today which I'd overlooked before, relating to this question... In the upper left hand corner of...
domahreh
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Nov 20, 2003
1:41 am
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Ah! Nice. Does anyone have any more shots for translation of the map? I think the numbers may be the date the map was created. -Ariuhtan ... From: domahreh ...
Alex Coblentz
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Nov 20, 2003
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A little off topic, but... If I remember correctly that map was made by Aitrus, according to www.myst.com. Unfortunately I can't check that right now b/c the...
Ethan Dickey
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Nov 20, 2003
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Why would your school block a MYST site??? -Ariuhtan ... From: Ethan Dickey To: languagelyst@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:09 PM ...
Alex Coblentz
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Nov 21, 2003
3:34 am
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Hey everyone, I went to the old Guild of Linguists website to see if I could translate taygahn which apparently literally means "to love with the mind" ...
John Lynch
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Nov 23, 2003
2:30 pm
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Yes, the map was made by Aitrus. I believe that I heard the number in the corner was the Surveryor's map no. XXXXXX, but it's possible it could be a date...
Mari Jade
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Nov 23, 2003
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John, IMO, taigahn isn't a compound word, any more than, say, bahron (D'ni verb for "phosphoresce") is a compound of bahro + ahn or something like that. The...
domahreh
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Nov 23, 2003
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My first question is, where did GoG get their info? How official is it? I don't know too much about y'all...Dave? I never heard that "taygahn" meant anything...
Mari Jade
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Nov 23, 2003
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I'm basically lurking, trying to learn. :0) Just wanted to let you know that we went straight to "the source" to ensure we had the correct...
Dani Howarth
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Nov 23, 2003
5:13 pm
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MariJade, you don't have Uru yet, if memory serves? The definition of "taigahn" as "to love with the mind" comes from an in-game D'ni Restoration Council...
domahreh
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Nov 23, 2003
6:41 pm
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test...
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Nov 23, 2003
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Right, I don't have it yet. Cry for me, woe is meeeee! :'( Anyway, sounds like we came to about the same conclusions regarding taygahn...wheee, fun! ;) Re:...
Mari Jade
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Nov 23, 2003
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Thanks domahreh and Leenay :) ... That hadn't occured to me :) Thanks for suggesting that. I originally assumed it couldn't down (any more then breakfast can...
John Lynch
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Nov 23, 2003
10:18 pm
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... Heya :-) In case anyone needs to see the map, I have a few versions uploaded: 2840 X 1660 and 1.47MB http://jerle.mystfans.com/images/dnimap2840x1660.jpg ...
Jerle
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Nov 24, 2003
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... way ... No, I haven't seen it...is it available online? I saw the trailer at Mysterium, but that's all. Any and all spoilers are okay for me personally...I...
Mari Jade
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Nov 24, 2003
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... You should definitely look into the Demo that Jerle mentioned... the url is http://www.gigex.com/general/title/downloads/? ...
domahreh
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Nov 24, 2003
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Just a quick note to let you know that the Demo goes as far as getting your Relto book, and then ends. You don't even make it to your Relto. Dani ... From:...
Dani Howarth
dugchugger
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Nov 24, 2003
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John, It's not a bad assumption at all -- D'ni does frequently combine simple words to make more complex words. Interestingly, a lot of the Tehrahnee words we...
domahreh
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Nov 24, 2003
3:01 pm
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... Hahahahaha.... there's nothing like the scream of a linguist when s/he's on to something. ;-) I looked and couldn't find "terel" without the "-ihn"...
Jerle
ba_relyima
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Nov 24, 2003
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... rihltahgahmihn ... Yes!! That fits, my morpheme sense is tingling...I never liked "tehr" either. So that also means "oshahn" is the verb "lose"....yay!!! ...
Mari Jade
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Nov 25, 2003
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... liked "tehr" ... might ... Today is a big linguist day, apparently... there's a new D'ni text that was discovered in UruLive (YAY!). Unfortunately, it...
domahreh
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Nov 25, 2003
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Hello, This is a small cleft spoiler so please don't read if you don't want to be spoiled ;) There seems to be a D'ni "word" that is structured unlike any D'ni...
John Lynch
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Nov 25, 2003
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... anyone ... from ... Actually, it says "Yeesha". ;-) It's her very stylized crest and it's everywhere that she's been. If you look closely at her tattoo on...
Jerle
ba_relyima
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Nov 26, 2003
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... What an incredibly wonderful resource, Jerle! Awesome! *used magnifier on super huge map* Kehrin :)...
Kehrin
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Nov 26, 2003
5:59 am
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... Well nuts :P There goes that theory ;)...
John Lynch
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Nov 27, 2003
2:52 pm
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Due to being in the midst of a holiday vacation, I am rather behind in my e-mails. so, I will respond in one big batch. ^_^ The meaning of Love: It seems...
dave_3rd
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