Shireroth

Sorry, everybody, for my sudden disappearance. My academic/professional life sort of got crazy over the last two weeks, and with that came a torrent of extra work I had to do. This, unfortunately, needed to go on the back burner for a bit. I'll be back, hopefully later in the week, with some updates...

I don't see Nick's as solving the problem of the design being fundamentally bad. I don't understand why you believe it is fundamentally bad. ...the red-yellow cross is still a completely different brightness than the green-brown one. Yes. That's called contrast. Again, I don't understand why this i...

Ryan, I actually didn't change the width of the bars at all. That seems to be an effect of making the shade of the colors more similar, and also possibly by framing it in the box like I did to isolate it from the board colors which don\t really match.

I agree with the view that the cross on satire designs are all too reminiscent of the UK flag, amongst others. In fact, none of these are really that appealing. Of all of them, I like Artz's the best, in principle, with Iskander Mirkdale's being second, and here is why: 1) It is still recognizable a...

Yes, Erik. Precisely.

Sorry for the lull everybody. I have had a busy weekend....I ought to have some verbal inflexional stuff up soon...

I think Ryan is on to something about the thicker bars. I can't say that it hasn't occured to me before. I also agree with Jason. The *curves* just don't work. But the box in the middle isn't really a box, but actually concave. Closer analysis makes it look as though the green and brown lines are bo...

You shouldn't feel pressured by it. I'm mostly being facetious. Inverted question marks are not out of the question, but the idea of having a nearly always sentence-initial set of words beginning with Ƕ serves just about the same purpose that the ¿ of Spanish does. ¿Ƕe Scot prætet an Eriçi? Hmm...no...

You misinterpret me. Let's clear a few things up. I lost interest in Micronations partially over the constant immature bickering over nonsense and the inane overreactions people had to random things---basically, the exact thing you are lamenting here--- but I mostly left because I had things in my l...

Kaiser Leto: Not until you change the flag back. On Neuter gender: there are a lot of things in the world that are neither masculine nor feminine In fact, only animate individuals actually have gender. Grammatical gender need not coincide with natural gender. A neuter gender is not out of the questi...

See, this is one of the reasons why I left. To be fair, the new flag isn't any better than the new one (really, it isn't). I never really understood why people are so apt to change the flag. It's really not that bad at all. It's endured for over a decade and is thus, by its very age, one of the most...

I too like ƕ, but the uppercase version is Ƕ, and I can't help but think it looks a little silly. I have been toying with the idea of replacing it with Xw/xw. Here's why this is important. As I have it outlined, Præta Sxiróþes will have what are basically indo-european question words. This is mostly...

Jag tror också att "du" och "ni" är lätt att komma ihåg :P Men det är svenska. Jag vill skapa shirerothska. And fear not, Erik, there will be plural and singular distinctions in the 2nd person. I couldn't live with myself if their weren't. Scott and everybody else: I suggest you all learn how to set...

Here are some updates and preliminaries: I've got some sketches of what things might look like and the sort of direction I want to take it. This includes verb conjugation and noun declension paradigms, in addition to a preliminary orthography. Nouns: Two genders (sort of), four cases, two numbers. V...

It's like it was meant to be.

It looks like I have set myself about the task of designing a Shirerothian Langauge. I'm currently sketching out some ideas about what I want the language to look like, and I will expose those as they develop in appropriate threads. Here, I want to outline what my basic plan of attack is. These thin...

Greg: I'm not complaining that the Language is not complex enough. I just think the proper balance needs to be struck. Malliki: True, [ɬ] is a voiceless alveolar fricative. It's technically distinct from a "voiceless L", though. It'd be nice to not have to call upon Nick every time we need something...

Voiceless alveolar lateral fricatives are not voiceless alveolar lateral approximants. I could probably be cajoled into working on this. I have a little bit of free time this term to screw around with stuff like that, and it's something I like to do anyway. I might even do it regardless of whether y...

As a general comment, first let me say that the idea of a Shirerothian language makes me happy. It needn't be anything official, nor ought it to be forced on anybody, but to use it for things such as titles, coats of arms, regalia, etc, would, I think, be a nice touch. Yardistani was primarily based...

God damn.

Shit the bed.

Why must I keep reminding people. Shireroth is a part of Yardistan, and consequently, Musica is a part of Yardistan.

See, no problem.

I own all of you. It should be noted, of course, that I am on a permanent leave of absence. It means that I should like to keep my citizenship. And I would have, too, but for some people who did exactly what I would have done had I been those people who did the doing. That is, revoking my citizenshi...

I don't know why nobody has noticed, but Shireroth is a subdivision of Yardistan, and thus Straylight is already a subdivision of Yardistan. Mere Shirerothians cannot go chaging these things around.

"I was thinking of making the Duke of Yardistan the nominal leader who votes in the Landsraad, then having the Anarch as the real guy with power"


You know, that's kind of how I always envisioned things...

But without the democracy. Come on!

And what a day it was...*sigh* I miss back then.

Ah, he's redeemed himself....

By the way, anybody going to be in southern Sweden this July....I might be...

I was having a talk with a Norwegian-speaking friend of mine today about how weird Norwegian sounds to me and how weird Swedish sounds to him.

And then we agreed that Danish is just inane. Seriously, it's like all their consonants disappeared.

Å!

...men Finland är också bra!

I don't think that's quite enough smileys to have been effective...

But yes, when your 33.6 kbps modem was trying to load up ezBoard with something like that posted on it, it was a slow painful day.