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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Tuomo Sipola</b>
on <!--date-->11:04 4/2/02
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<p>Dear Mark,
<p>I have always been impresed with your world and especially the languages. I
have designed languages since I was very young but your site gave me the
idea to build a world.
<p>I have built many worlds but since most of them weren't good I thought that
I should start all over again. Now I'm having a project that I'm pretty
satisfied with. It's a story of two great empires fighting an endless war.
As my math (!) teacher says: "Without the nuclear bomb I would have seen two
wars within my lifetime" and that must be very true. Actually they are just
smaller empires together against the bigger. Plus the nomads on the east
and west and north and south.
<p>About my languages: I decided to derive every word by hand. I got fed up
with your sound change application (it was great but not for me). Now I can
feel the essence of the words and besides I learn them while doing. Do you
have any idea how to build a dictionary? I have tons of paper (of words)
hanging on my desk waiting to be documented and dictionarized.
<p>Now I decided to draw all my maps by hand. Since the inhabitants of my
world don't need identical maps then I don't. My historical atlas will look
very hmm... fancy then. I have a huge east-west-continent on the north side
of my world. Only god (wait... that's me) knows what's on the southern
hemisphere.
<p>I would like to hear your comments about this paper-only method. Or do you
have something better in mind?
<p>Then about books: I ordered Guns, Germs and Steel and Historical Linguistics
from my local bookstore. Hope they'll be useful. For the geology thing I
would recommend high school (? Here in Finland I'm on the 1st grade of
'lukio' and I'm 16 so whatever corresponds) books. Our book covered many of
the issues I was interested in (ironically, I didn't read the book but still
got 10 (excellent) from the course).
<p>How did you construct those globes you used with your continents? It would
be fun to have a globe of Mesar hanging over my bed...
<p>Yours,
<br>-Tuomo Sipola
<p>Oh and there are some languages at <a href="http://www.zipola.cjb.net">www.zipola.cjb.net</a>.
<hr><i>Mark responds:
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The first dictionaries of Verdurian were done by hand. I wouldn't have
the patience for that now! A computer document is a lot more manageable;
and a word search is a lot faster.
<p>For globes, you can use the sinusoidal projection I described in another
post. Each 15-degree segment forms a sort of spear. Cut it all out and you
can paste it to a ball. It's probably easier just to draw on the ball!
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