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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Jonathan Hammond</b>
on <!--date-->3:35 10/23/01
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...um, can I generously lift some of your Verduria city material and
language? I promise I won't take any names or anything if you don't want me
to. And, ultimately, what I'm after are purely geographical and
occasionally linguistic details, and I don't want to borrow many of the
cultural specifics - the race I've drawn up is already technologically
advanced, culturally modern and westernized, and if I dare say, J-poppish
if vaguely communistic in going about it.
<p>But the sound structures of Verdurian are very similar to things I've been
trying to create in a conlang for a while, and for that matter I've been
trying to design a number of cities for these people, mostly borrowing very
ineptly from Mexico City and large Japanese cities like Tokyo, Kyoto and
Osaka, to no avail. Verduria city has a lot of structures in it that are
similar to a lot of cultural constructs I'm trying to throw into most
Kreiani cities, such as massive and important-seeming university and
library buildings, etc.
<p>I'm sure I'm confusing the hell out of you, though... but could you help,
and could I borrow the blueprint for Verduria city? It'll only take a
minute, and I'll give you credit for whatever it is I end up doing.
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Hi, Jon. You can do whatever you want with stuff on your own PC (i.e., stuff
you're only going to share with yourself and a few friends).
<p>If you put stuff on the web-- well, it's not clear to me how much,
exactly, you want to borrow. If it's just the phonological structure of
Verdurian and some of the urban architecture of Verduria-city, go ahead.
<p>I do advise that you rework the material, not to keep me happy but to
produce a more satisfying creation. E.g., don't just copy the
Verduria city map; find out what you like about it (the university campus?
the Haussmanesque boulevards?) and incorporate those features into your
own city.
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