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<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2007 </h3>
<p>31 Dec. <a href="rants07.html#12">New rant</a>: <i>His Dark Materials</i>.
<p>11 Nov. Updated <a href="ask.html#26">that last answer</a> with a reader's comments. Also more fully Unicoded the <a href="eastern2.html">Proto-Eastern page</a>.
<p>31 Oct. An <a href="ask.html#26">Ask Zomp</a> question and answer.
<p>14 Oct. Unicodified the <a href="native.htm">Caďinor grammar</a>.
<p>13 Oct. How did it get to be October? <a href="rants07.html#11">New rant</a>.
<p>13 Aug. No less than four <a href="ask.html#25">Ask Zomp answers</a>.
<p>4 Aug. <a href="rants07.html#10">New rant</a>.
<p>16 Jul. <a href="amercult.html">Culture test</a> corrections: the Dutch have same-sex marriage now; the Greeks don't get more time off than other Europeans; and Americans don't make many Polish jokes any more.
<p>12 Jul. <a href="rants07.html#9">New rant</a>.
<p>8 Jul. <a href="rants07.html#8">New rant</a>.
<p>23 Jun. Another <a href="ask.html#21">Ask Zomp answer</a>.
<p>17 Jun. Another <a href="ask.html#20">Ask Zomp answer</a>.
<p>3 Jun. Two, count 'em, two <a href="ask.html#19">Ask Zomp answers</a>
<p>28 May. Unicode for the <a href="syldavian.html">Syldavian</a> pages.
<p>20 May. <a href=
"rants07.html#7">New rant</a>: More on authoritarians.
<p>3 May. <a href=
"rants07.html#6">New rant</a>: Conservativism conquered from within.
And a new <a href="ask.html#17">Ask Zomp answer</a>
<p>20 Mar. <a href=
"rants07.html#5">New rant</a>: Bond overdose.
<p>11 Mar. <a href=
"rants07.html#4">New rant</a>: The Hot Gates.
<p>1 Mar. Another <a href="ask.html#16">Ask Zomp answer</a>.
<p>27 Feb. <a href="bob49.html">Bob reviews</a> <i>Digger</i> and <i>Slow Wave</i>.
<p>19 Feb. <a href=
"rants07.html#3">New rant</a>: Touting my brother. Also, Raphael Landeck has translated <a href=
"jacobsg.html">my Jane Jacobs page into German</a>.
<p>4 Feb. <a href=
"rants07.html#2">New rant</a>: What kind of ape are we? Also, Matt Adams provides <a href=
"rants06.html#23a">icons</a> drawn from the Children's Railway from Hell.
<p>15 Jan. Another <a href="ask.html#15">Ask Zomp answer</a>.
<p>7 Jan. <a href=
"rants07.html#1">New rant</a>: More mistakes in Iraq.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2006 </h3>
<p>30 Dec. <a href=
"rants06.html#23">New rant</a>: The children's railway FROM HELL.
<p>12 Dec. <a href="ask.html#14">Three new Ask Zomp answers</a>.
<p>29 Nov. <a href=
"rants06.html#22">More ranting.</a>
<p>25 Nov. Everyone should embarrass themselves with <a href=
"rants06.html#21">a plan for Iraq</a>. Here's mine.
<p>23 Nov. Put up a <a href="zhangday.html">new Fuschia comic</a>, after just five years, and revamped <a href="zhang.htm">Fuschia's home page</a>, including glimpses of her creation.
<p>16 Nov. I've been on vacation, so some stuff is pending. To start with, here's <a href="rants06.html#20">a new rant</a>. And <a href="ask.html#11">here's three new Ask Zomp answers</a>.
<p>5 Nov. <a href="ask.html#9">Ask Zompist</a> answers another question.
<p>30 Oct. <a href="bob48.html">Bob reviews</a> <i>Making Comics</i> and <i>99 Ways to Tell a Story</i>. Another answer in <a href="ask.html#8">Ask Zompist</a>.
<p><i><b>Note</b>: I had these updates ready on Sunday, but our phone line (and thus DSL) was dead until tonight. Couldn't get at my mail, either. </i>
<p>22 Oct. <a href="ask.html#7">Ask Zompist</a> answers three more questions.
<p>18 Oct. Maybe the last <a href="oblivion.html#6">update on Oblivion</a>, plus <a href="rants06.html#19">a new rant</a>
<p>14 Oct. New feature: <a href="ask.html#4">Ask Zompist</a> answers its first batch of questions.
<p>10 Oct. <a href="rants06.html#18">New rant</a> to get some queries for a new feature, <i>Ask Zompist</i>!
<p>3 Oct. It's well past time for <a href="toons.html">a new Swatoon</a>! (#31)
<p>1 Oct. <a href="rants06.html#17">New rant</a>.
<p>17 Sep. <a href="rants06.html#16">New rant</a>.
<p>15 Sep. <a href="rants06.html#15">New rant</a>.
<p>11 Sep. <a href="oblivion.html#5">More on Oblivion</a>.
<p>26 Aug. Decided it was time to release the <a href="http://www.almeopedia.com/">Almeopedia</a>.
<p>24 Aug. <a href="rants06.html#14">New rant</a>.
<p>22 Aug. <a href="oblivion.html#3">More thoughts on Oblivion</a>.
<p>14 Aug. <a href="bob47.html">Bob reviews</a> <i>Gemma Bovery</i> and <i>Fun Home</i>. Also, all the Bobs were converted to the new format and prev/next buttons were added so you can <a href="bob1.html">read them in sequence</a>.
<p>12 Aug. <a href="rants06.html#13">New rant</a>.
<p>10 Aug. <a href="rants06.html#12">New rant</a>.
<p>5 Aug. Unicodified <a href="ismain.htm">the Ismaîn grammar</a>.
<p>30 Jul. <a href="rants06.html#11">New rant</a>. Also corrected some typos in <a href="spell.html">English spelling page</a>.
<p>25 Jul. <a href="oblivion.html#2">More thoughts on Oblivion</a>.
<p>16 Jul. Added my <a href="oblivion.html">Oblivion Journal</a>.
<p>11 Jun. Added a new story, <a href="rogues.htm">The rogues</a>, to <a href="virtuver.htm">Virtual Verduria</a>.
<p>10 Jun. <a href="rants06.html#10">New rant</a>.
<p>4 Jun. <a href="rants06.html#9">New rant</a>.
<p>20 May. <a href="rants06.html#8">New rant</a>.
<p>10 May. <a href="bob46.html">Bob reviews</a> <i>Atomic City Tales</i> and <i>Top Ten</i>. Also added <a href="bob32.html">updates</a> to the <i>Sam & Max</i> and <i>Boondocks</i> reviews.
<p>30 Apr. <a href="civ4.html">How to do better at Civ4 than you probably were</a>. And <a href="rants06.html#7">a new rant</a>.
<p>18 Apr. <a href="rants06.html#6">New rant</a>. Linked to <a href="http://ib.frath.net/w/Category:How_to_tell_if_you%27re...">cultures tests from Ill Bethisad</a>, a collaborative alternative history.
<p>7 Apr. <a href="rants06.html#5">New rant</a>.
<p>3 Apr. <a href="survey.html">Survey results</a> are up.
<p>27 Mar. <a href="toons.html">Two new Swatoons</a> (#29, #30).
<p>21 Mar. The <a href="Skouras.swf">Skourene Historical Atlas</a> is complete, with three final maps (1705, 1726, 1810).
<p>Also, please to be taking this <a href="http://express.perseus.com/perseus/surveys/1734848031/7383a693.htm">zompist.com reader survey</a>!
<p>13 Mar. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more Skourene maps</a> 1632, 1665). Second-to-last update on the Skourene Historical Atlas!
<p>9 Mar. W. Shedd and K. Andreyeva have written a <a href="http://accidentalrussophile.blogspot.com/2006/02/if-you-are-russian.html">Russian culture test</a> on their blog. There's a <a href="rants06.html#4">new rant</a>.
<p>3 Mar. Justin M. updated the <a href="pomcult.html">English culture test</a>.
<p>26 Feb. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more Skourene maps</a> 1510, 1593).
<p>18 Feb. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more Skourene maps</a> (1370, 1440); also substantially revised the commentary for 1260.
<p>12 Feb. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more Skourene maps</a> (1150, 1260).
<p>9 Feb. <a href="rants06.html#3">New rant</a>. Added this <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/06/hernandez/"><i>Salon</i> review</a> to <a href="lovelinx.shtml">the L&R links page</a>.
<p>29 Jan. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more maps</a> (1005, 1070).
<p>23 Jan. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more maps</a> (885, 950).
<p>14 Jan. <a href="rants06.html#2">New rant</a>.
<p>10 Jan. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more maps</a> (785, 827).
<p>3 Jan. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more maps</a> (635, 738). Moved 2004 to the <a href="changes-old.html">old changes log</a>.
<p>3 Jan. <a href="rants06.html#1">Happy new rant</a> to all!
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2005 </h3>
<p>31 Dec. Redrew the picture on the <a href="visitor.htm">Visitor's Guide to Verduria</a>. Updated the link to Robert Delaney's <a href="http://www.geocities.com/yvain.geo/culture.html">the by-subject republishing of the culture tests</a>.
<p>26 Dec. Created a new header and used it on a few pages.
<p>24 Dec. <a href="Skouras.swf">Two more maps</a> (484, 558).
<p>23 Dec. <a href="toons.html">New Swatoon</a> (#28). By the way, Tieboy here has <a href="http://www.hlcomic.com">his own extremely droll Half-Life 2 oriented cartoonishness</a>; and as mentioned in the Swatoon, Agent Orange has a <a href="http://suspect-device.blogspot.com/2005/12/suspect-device-bad-nationwide.html">four-page cartoon in <i>Fortune</i> this month</a>.
<p>18 Dec. <b>Metaverse for December</b>. Beginning <a href="Skouras.swf">the Historical Atlas of Skouras</a>. This is a Flash file, so get a Flash reader if you live in a cave. Ten maps are up; I'll be adding two maps a week till it's done.
<p>5 Dev. <a href="rants05.html#18">Yet another rant</a>.
<p>30 Nov. <a href="rants05.html#17">New rant</a>.
<p>19 Nov. Fixed typos on the libertarianism page and the Ukrainian test. Added some references to the former. Added an anti-abuse warning to <a href="contact.html">the mail page</a>.
<p>6 Nov. <a href="rants05.html#16">New rant</a>.
<p>31 Oct. <a href="rants05.html#15">New rant</a>.
<p>30 Oct. <b>Metaverse for November</b>. Added a page on <a href="indiawords.html">English words from India</a>, and Vadim Urasov's <a href="ukraine.html">Ukrainian culture test</a>. Improved the logos on several pages. Switched <a href="kebreni.htm">the Kebreni grammar</a> to Unicode, which gets rid of the ugly apostrophes.
<p>22 Sep. Raphael removed some outdated political references in the <a href="germcult.html">German culture test</a>.
<p>16 Sep. <a href="rants05.html#14">New rant</a>.
<p>12 Sep. Added some new <a href="elklex.htm">words in Elkarîl</a>.
<p>10 Sep. Corrections and a few new words for the Chinese word list.
<p>7 Sep. Made some corrections to the Chinese word list, and added <a href="rants05.html#13">a new rant-let</a>.
<p>6 Sep. <b>Metaverse for September</b>. Added a page on <a href="chinawords.html">Chinese words in English</a>, and <a href="bob45.html">Bob reviewed <i>Sin City</i> and <i>Skippy</i></a>. Also corrected some typos in Virtual Verduria, and noted a few more tribute words in the <a href="secreth.htm">Secret History of Verduria</a>.
<p>3 Sep. <a href="rants05.html#12">New rant</a>.
<p>16 Aug. Finally filled in the missing panels for a <a href="bob2.html#2">Mafalda cartoon</a> (the second-to-last one).
<p>11 Aug. <a href="rants05.html#11">New rant</a>.
<p>31 Jul. <a href="rants05.html#10">New rant</a>.
<p>24 Jul. <a href="toons.html">Two new Swatoons</a> (#26, 27).
<p>17 Jul. <b>Metaverse for
August</b>. Finally finished <a href="lenani.htm">Old Skourene</a>.
<p>11 Jul. <a href="rants05.html#9">New rant</a>.
<p>12 Jun. Minor correction to the <a href="spoke.html"><i>English As She Is Spoke</i> page</a>.
<p>5 Jun. <a href="rants05.html#8">New rant</a>.
<p>17 May. <b>Metaverse for May</b>. Yet another <a href="toons.html">Swatoon</a> (#25). And a <a href="skourenetest.htm">culture test</a> for Skouras (which, I hasten to add for the geo-illiterate, doesn't actually exist).
<p>5 May. Corrected a typo in the Elkarîl grammar (<b>ddut</b> means 'sell' not 'buy') and added a new word to the lexicon (<b>nddar</b> 'weapon').
<p>4 May. <a href="rants05.html#7">New rant</a>.
<p>20 Apr. Entirely rewrote my article on <a href="libertos.html">what's wrong with libertarianism</a>. : it now takes twice as long to arrive at the same conclusion! (The major changes are to show that yes, people really do say this stuff; to avoid sidebars that no one seemed to read; and to respond to some criticisms.)
<p>16 Apr. <a href="rants05.html#6">New rant</a>.
<p>12 Apr. <b>Metaverse for April</b>: Bob on <a href="bob44.html">Rich Burlew and Roy Lichtenstein</a>, plus a page to be named later.
<p>4 Apr. <a href="rants05.html#5">New rant</a>.
<p>13 Mar. <a href="toons.html">Two new Swatoons</a> (#23, 24).
<p>11 Mar. <a href="http://www.langmaker.com">Jeffrey Henning</a> was so anxious to see an RSS feed for zompist.com that he created the initial file for me. That's pretty hard to resist. Supposedly the little XML button above will do something for you RSS types.
<p>9 Mar. <a href="rants05.html#4">New rant</a>.
<p>28 Feb. <b>Metaverse for March</b>. An explication of <a href="jacobs.html">Jane Jacobs's ideas on cities</a>, the <a href="chinacult.html">Chinese Culture Test</a>, a new <a href="indianwd.html">Amerindian word in English</a> (buccaneer), and <a href="rants05.html#3">a new rant</a>.
<p>27 Jan. <a href="rants05.html#2">New rant</a>.
<p>23 Jan. Updated the <a href="loveroc1.html">Jaime Hernandez chronology</a> through issue 12. And, <a href="rants05.html#1">first rant</a> of the year.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2004 </h3>
<p>23 Dec. Updated the <a href="loveroc1.html">Jaime Hernandez chronology</a> with page numbers from the big fat <i>Locas</i> book. Also converted <a href="verdurian.htm">the Verdurian grammar and dictionaries</a> into Unicode.
<p>11 Dec. <a href="rants04.html#18">New rant.</a>
<p>10 Dec. I'm moving this month and all you get for <b>Metaverse for December</b> is Bob reviewing <a href="bob43.html"><i>Hellboy</i> and <i>Bacchus</i></a>.
<p>2 Dec. Added scans to <a href="ranma.html">the Ranma 1/2 page</a> so you too can compare the Japanese and American editions.
<p>22 Nov. Added scans for <a href="bob10.html#2"><i>Cud</i></a>, <a href="bob13.html"><i>Artbabe</i></a>, and <a href="bob22.html"><i>Cowboy Wally</i></a>. Added short updates to the latter two to mention more recent work. Fixed a couple of typos.
<p>4 Nov. <a href="rants04.html#17">Newer rant.</a>
<p>1 Nov. <a href="rants04.html#16">New rant.</a> Can you guess what it's on?
<p>28 Oct. <b>Metaverse for November</b>. A review of <a href="meetthepoor.html">what the Bible says about the poor</a> and, at the very opposite end of the taste spectrum, <a href="toons.html">two new Swatoons</a>.
<p>22 Oct. <a href="rants04.html#15">New rant.</a> Also finally mentioned the <a href="http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/">zompist bboard</a> in the <a href="kit.html">Language Construction Kit</a>, which will hopefully save me many an e-mail.
<p>6 Oct. <a href="rants04.html#14">New rant.</a>
<p>5 Oct. Updated the <a href="eastern2.html">proto-Eastern page</a> with changes to Axunašin, Unicoded it, and added Nikolai's speculations on verb origins.
<p>3 Oct. Fixed typos in <a href="flaidish.htm">Flaidish</a>, <a href="axunashin.htm">Axunašin</a>, <a href="elkaril.htm">Elkarîl</a>, <a href="jeerio.htm"><i>Jeerio</i></a>. Clarified the vowel section for Flaidish, too. Updated the <a href="kingdom.htm#Other">coinage table</a> to reflect Elkarîl grammar.
<p>2 Oct. <b>Metaverse for October</b>. Some folks have been waiting for years for this: <a href="axunashin.htm">the grammar of Axunašin</a>.
<p>29 Sep. Added nav bars all over <a href="virtuver.htm">Virtual Verduria</a>. Converted a bunch of it to Unicode, corrected typos, finally added some text about that room, redrew some drawings, and added some Kebreni words. Oh, and added a <a href="meshaism.htm">new religion</a>.
<p>25 Sep. <a href="rants04.html#13">New rant.</a>
<p>21 Sep. Updated a couple of links on <a href="quechua.html">the Quechua page</a>.
<p>20 Sep. Added an <a href="fascism.html#justin">addendum</a> to the fascism page.
<p>14 Sep. <b>Metaverse for September</b>. Added a page on <a href="fascism.html">fascism</a> and <a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com">a new page at Shrove Tuesday (Observed)</a>. The main page has also been redesigned.
<p>15 Aug. Updated <a href="numbers.shtml">the numbers pages</a>, which now contain over <b>5000</b> languages and dialects. This includes 227 new and 79 replacement sets acquired at the SIL Library in Texas.
<p>14 Aug. <b>Metaverse for August</b>. Added a page on <a href="cold.html">"The Cold Equations"</a>, plus one on <a href="fst.html">my unpublished novel <i>The Fire Shall Try</i></a>, plus <a href="rants04.html#12">a new rant</a>.
<p>29 Jul. <a href="rants04.html#11">More ranting.</a>
<p>27 Jul. <a href="rants04.html#10">Bask in the rantiness!</a>
<p>24 Jul. <a href="rants04.html#9">New rant</a>. Also added a <a href="restructure.html#ps">a postscript</a> to the Restructuring America page.
<p>10 Jul. I know, not much has been happening here. I just finished a large paid project, so that should free up some time... though not quite yet; I'm on vacation for a week. There's <a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com">three new pages at Shrove Tuesday (Observed)</a>.
<p>18 Jun. <a href="rants04.html#8">New rant</a>.
<p>14 Jun. Minor changes to the numbers page (a language named Lou turns out to be Austronesian,
not Indo-Pacific).
<p>I got a nice blurb in the <i>Chicago Tribune Magazine</i> a couple of weeks ago.
Even neater: <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp">Neil Gaiman</a> answered my
question in his journal; I'm tickled by this, as I assume he gets dozens of questions and answers only
a few of them. I was hoping he'd provide examples, but I note that his answer is, well,
very Gaiman: he zeroes in on a specific, slightly odd fact (the D's become S's).
<p>16 May. <b>Metaverse for May/June</b>. Two new <a href="toons.html">Swatoons</a> (#19, #20). An essay on <a href="restructure.html">restructuring our government</a>. Some additions and new scans on the <a href="frenchy.html">French comics page</a>.
<p>16 Apr. New page over at <a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com/super.html">Shrove Tuesday (Observed)</a>.
<p>16 Mar. <a href="rants04.html#5">Another rant</a>.
<p>11 Mar. Nicolas Ossart very kindly sent me a huge collection of Australian <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers</a>. There are 132 new languages or dialects, plus 29 replacements.
<p>I'm working on a couple of paid projects at home this month, so no new pages.
<p>24 Feb. <a href="rants04.html#4"><i>Two</i> rants</a>.
<p>10 Feb. <a href="rants04.html#2">Big ol' rant</a>. Also <i>removed</i> a language from the numbers list. ('Tebu' turned out to be a version of Mandara.)
<p>3 Feb. <b>Metaverse for February</b>. Two new <a href="toons.html">Swatoons</a> (#17, #18). Added an <a href="engism.htm">English-Ismaîn lexicon</a> and a <a href="ethno.htm">handy list of Almean languages</a> for the zbb people.
<p>15 Jan. Greatly improved the scans for <a href="bob25.html">the Rodolphe Töpffer review</a>. Updated the <a href="spinnl.html">SpinnMap</a>. Wrote the <a href="rants04.html#1">first rant of the year</a>.
<p>13 Jan. Added a couple more tips to <a href="winciv3.html#behind">the Civ3 page</a>. Also corrected
the contact address for <a href="bob27.html#2"><i>Liliane</i></a>, and added a scan.
<p>1 Jan. <b>Metaverse for January</b>. Finally decided to put up<a href="Jeerio.htm">my Jeerio story</a>, written when I was 11. Revised and expanded <a href="wedei.html">the Wede:i grammar</a>.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2003 </h3>
<p>28 Dec. Changed things around at <a href="numbers.shtml">the numbers page</a> a bit. The numbers are stored in two ways: in a mondo 1.1M file, and in a set of 14 smaller files. The bigger file will now use Unicode (as much as my computers can display), which makes it look a lot better; the smaller files will remain in standard html only; I'm assuming those of you who connect to the net with toasters can't handle either large files <i>or</i> Unicode. Also added a few sets of numbers.
<p>24 Dec. <a href="rants03.html#25">New rant</a>.
<p>9 Dec. <a href="rants03.html#24">New rant</a>; also added a hot new tip to <a href="winciv3.html#early">the Civ3 page</a>.
<p>30 Nov. <b>Metaverse for December</b>. Bob reviews <a href="bob42.html"><i>Peanuts</i></a>; new <a href="toons.html">Swatoon (#16)</a>. No more for now, I have a headache.
<p>18 Nov. <a href="rants03.html#23">Ranty ranty ranty.</a>
<p>10 Nov. <a href="rants03.html#22">New rant</a>. I don't think I'll have any
new pages for this month. However, there's
<a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com/nanonot.html">a new page over at Shrove Tuesday (Observed)</a>
<p>27 Oct. <a href="rants03.html#21">And another.</a>.
<p>22 Oct. <a href="rants03.html#20">Another new rant</a>.
<p>8 Oct. <a href="rants03.html#19">New rant</a>.
<p>3 Oct. <b>Metaverse for October</b>. <a href="greek.html">Greek culture test</a>; new <a href="toons.html">Swatoon (#15)</a>. There's also a recent new rant.
<p>13 Sep. Those slackers over at <a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com/hiatus.html">Shrove Tuesday (Observed)</a> updated.
<p>7 Sep. <b>Metaverse for September</b>. <a href="bob41.html">Bob reviewed <i>Shutterbug Follies, Fables, Persepolis</i></a>. Also, <a href="rants03.html#17">new rant</a>.
<p>28 Jul. <b>Metaverse for August</b>. Finally described <a href="elkwrite.htm">the Elkarîl writing system</a>; put up Carlos Thompson's <a href="colombia.html">Colombian culture test</a>.
<p>19 Jul. Updated the <a href="embassy.htm">Verdurian downloads page</a> since the ftp area doesn't work any more.
Uploaded Daniele Calisi's <a href="ikit.html">translation of the Language Construction Kit</a> into Italian.
<p>15 Jul. <a href="rants03.html#16">Yet another rant</a>.
<p>14 Jul. <a href="rants03.html#15">More ranting</a>. Raphael updated the <a href="germcult.html">German culture test</a>.
<p>11 Jul. <b>Metaverse for July</b>. <a href="bob40.html">Bob</a> had more to say on some comics and reviewed some erotica;
also added <a href="howto3.htm">another mapmaking tutorial</a>.
<p>9 Jul. <a href="rants03.html#14">New rant</a>. New illo in <a href="elkaril.htm">the Elkarîl grammar</a>.
<p>22 Jun. Made a bunch of corrections and clarifications in the Flaidish grammar, thanks to Philip Newton's review; and added some words, prompted by John Minot's Babel translation.
<p>16 Jun. <a href="rants03.html#13">New rant</a>.
Also corrected a typo in the change log pointed out by <a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com/crew.html">one of you</a>.
<p>9 Jun. Corrected a couple of typos in the Flaidish grammar.
Replaced <a href="drill4.htm">the Kingdom of Verduria map</a>
and <a href="drill3.htm">the Eretald map</a>
<p>5 Jun. Added a page telling <a href="winciv3.html">what I've learned (and what I haven't) about Civ3</a>.
<p>1 Jun. <b>Metaverse for June</b>. Added a <a href="flaidish.htm">grammar of Flaidish</a>; made some minor corrections to the Elkarîl lexicon. More new pages coming.
<p>29 May. Updated the <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers list</a>; see <a href="sources.htm">the sources page</a> for details. <a href="amercult.html">Linked</a> to a conculture test.
<p>21 May. Corrected typos and de-Word-ized the <a href="spell.html">Spelling page</a>;
fixed some links in the <a href="sounds.htm">Sound Change Applier</a> page
and added some help hints for non-programmer Windows users.
<p>19 May. <a href="rants03.html#12">New rant</a>.
<p>15 May. <a href="toons.html">Two new Swatoons</a> (#13, 14).
<p>9 May. <a href="rants03.html#11">New rant</a>.
<p>7 May. Converted the <a href="eastern2.html">Proto-Eastern page</a> to
Unicode; improved some table formatting; 'Sheo' is now '<b>T</b>eôši';
corrected the statement that some Obenzayet infinitives end in -r.
<p>5 May. Not much new here, not least because a lot of my energy has gone to
setting up <b><a href="http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com/">Shrove Tuesday (Observed)</a></b>,
a new site featuring the humor stylings of Lore, Spinn, Agent Orange, Raven,
Tieboy, SeanQ, Bob, and me.
<a href="rants03.html#10">New rant</a>, though.
<p>24 Apr. <a href="rants03.html#9">New rant</a>.
<p>30 Mar. <b>Metaverse for April.</b> Added <a href="quebec.html">a Quebec culture test</a>,
from <a href="chars.html">Freyja</a>, as well as a page on <a href="howto2.htm">drawing maps</a>.
Fixed up links in Virtual Verduria and clarified that Kahinisa is pushing up the daisies.
<p>29 Mar. <a href="rants03.html#8">New rant</a>. Also, a domain propagation error
was corrected-- "zompist.com" used to go to the old server; now it properly goes to the
same place as "www.zompist.com".
<p>11 Mar. Corrected a typo in the Cuêzi grammar. Redrew the <a href="spinnl.html">map of Spinnland</a> and made sure the SpinnStuff page had a link to the toons.
<p>9 Mar. <a href="rants03.html#7">New rant</a>; new <a href="toons.html">Swatoon (#12)</a>. Made some corrections (thanks, Ranskaldan) to the <a href="faye.html">Faye lyrics page</a>.
<p>5 Mar. <b>Metaverse for March.</b> New <a href="mexicana.html">culture test for Mexico</a>; finally got the <a href="cuezi.htm">Cuêzi grammar</a> up and updated <a href="cadhlex.htm">the Cadhinor lexicon</a>. Updated the list of <a href="stores.html">stores selling French comics</a>.
<p>20 Feb. <a href="rants03.html#6">New, dreary rant</a>
<p>9 Feb. <a href="ciroma10.htm">The 10th and last chapter of the Count of Years</a> is up.
<p>7 Feb. Everything seems to be back to normal. Here's what's been
happening: RCN decided to move everyone from its old Enteract servers
to RCN servers. Only RCN's web hosting has a limit of 10M; I use about 40M.
So only about half the site was transferred. (With no notice of any kind.)
<p>Well. The simplest solution was to upgrade to their 'Bronze' package,
which fortunately isn't much more expensive, and offers 150M.
There were some permissions problems this afternoon; but that's been
cleared up.
<p>So everything should be up now. If you get a missing file somewhere,
tell me.
<p>Also, <a href="rants03.html#5">new rant</a>
<p>5 Feb. <b>Metaverse for February.</b> Added <a href="poland.html">a Polish culture test</a>,
while Bob reviewed <a href="bob39.html"><i>Promethea</i> and <i>The Boulevard of Broken Dreams</i></a>.
<p>1 Feb. <a href="ciroma9.htm">Chapter 9 of the Count of Years</a> is up.
Added a gloss to <a href="indianwd.html">the Amerindian words page</a> (thanks, Jeff Burke), and added some <a href="rockers.html">rock band names</a>.
<p>30 Jan. <a href="/rants03.html#4">New rant</a>.
<p>28 Jan. Added <a href="toons.html">Swatoon #11</a>; added Athnia to <a href="embassy.htm">Verduria's embassies</a>.
<p>22 Jan. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants03.html#3">New rant</a>.
<p>21 Jan. <a href="ciroma8.htm">Chapter 8 of the Count of Years</a> is up. Made a couple corrections to the numbers list and added some conlangs.
<p>18 Jan. Finally updated the <a href="loveroc1.html">Jaime Hernandez chronology</a> with <i>Love & Rockets</i> vol. II #3 - #6.
<p>11 Jan. <a href="ciroma7.htm">Chapter 7 of the Count of Years</a> is up. Corrected a couple of typos on the quotes pages.
<p>10 Jan. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants03.html#2">New mini-rant</a>.
<p>9 Jan. It's time to make fun of <a href="bday.html">search strings people used to get here</a>!
<p>5 Jan. <b>And 2003 begins.</b> <a href="ciroma6.htm">Chapter 6 of the Count of Years</a> is up, as well as a <a href="asimov.htm#king">review of <i>Psychohistorical Crisis</i>.</a>
<p>4 Jan. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants03.html#1">New rant</a>.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2002 </h3>
<p>28 Dec. Added <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#50">a new rant</a> as well as <a href="ciroma5.htm">Chapter 5 of the Count of Years</a>.
<p>24 Dec. Revised the paper on <a href="chance.htm">chance resemblances between languages</a>, expanding the discussion of multiple counting methodologies (with, finally, a formula to calculate them), adding a graphic to make the connection to the normal curve obvious, relegating a dull discussion of equiprobable phonemes to an appendix, discussing more ways to calculate phonetic matches, and addressing more issues in semantics.
<p>23 Dec. Added <a href="toons.html">a new Swatoon</a> (#10).
<p>22 Dec. <a href="ciroma4.htm">Chapter 4 of the Count of Years</a> is up.
<p>17 Dec. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#49">New rant.</a>
<p>15 Dec. <a href="ciroma3.htm">Chapter 3 of the Count of Years</a> is up.
<p>13 Dec. Revised <a href="libertos.html">my essay on libertarianism</a> after some feedback.
<p>9 Dec. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#48">New rant.</a>
<p>8 Dec. Uploaded the <a href="ciroma2.htm">next section of the Count of Years</a>; there's also a<a href="toons.html">new Swatoon (#9)</a>. Also corrected a typo in Cadhinor morphology.
<p>2 Dec. <b>Metaverse for December.</b> Added <a href="toons.html">the Swatoons Page</a> and the first section of the <a href="ciroma.htm">Count of Years</a> (which I'll update once a week till it's done).
<p>13 Nov. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#47">New rant.</a>
<p>8 Nov. Added a favorites icon for IE users. (If you have zompist.com bookmarked already, delete the bookmark and re-add it.)
<p>6 Nov. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#46">New rant.</a>
<p>1 Nov. <b>Metaverse for November.</b> Added <a href="swedcult.html">a
Swedish culture test</a>, and Bob reviewed <a href="bob38.html"><i>Colonia</i> and <i>I Was Seven in '75</i></a>.
Also, Joe Fatula very kindly reprocessed the <a href="almeasounds.htm">Sounds of Almea</a> as MP3s, making them shorter <i>and</i> better-sounding.
And if all that weren't enough, here's <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#45">a new rant.</a>
<p>28 Oct. Fixed some typos and added an illustration to <a href="elkaril.htm">the Elkarîl grammar</a>.
Updated the samples in <a href="eastern2.html#comparative">the proto-Eastern page</a> (also added a couple of words).
<p>25 Oct. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#44">New rant.</a>
<p>20 Oct. Some emendations to Elkarîl. Replaced the map of Cuzei in the <a href="cuzeian.htm">Cuzeian theism page</a>.
<p>8 Oct. Put up a grammar of <a href="http://www.zompist.com/elkaril.htm">Elkarîl</a>.
<p>4 Oct. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#43">New rant.</a>
<p>2 Oct. Updated the <a href="kebreni.htm">Kebreni</a> lexicon.
<p>30 Sep. <b>Metaverse for October.</b> Added <a href="turkcult.html">a
Turkish culture test</a> and <a href="libertos.html">a big rant on libertarianism </a>.
<p>23 Sep. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#42">New rant.</a>
<p>20 Sep. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#41">New rant.</a>
<p>19 Sep. The <a href="http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/">Zompist BBoard</a> is working again.
<p>17 Sep. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#40">New rant.</a>
<p>13 Sep. The Virtual Verduria Message Board has transmuted into
the shiny new <a href="http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/">Zompist BBoard</a>.
Which, by the way, is having some glitches and hiccups. Read the announcements.
<p>4 Sep. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#39">Another rant</a>.
The SpinnMap has been updated, too.
<p>1 Sep. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#38">New rant</a>.
<p>30 Aug. New rant.
<p>26 Aug. Quiet month, huh? Well, new rant today; plus some corrections to the <a href="secreth.htm">Secret History of Verduria</a>, plus a new <a href="lord2.htm">Lord of News</a> story for Verdurian readers only.
<p>5 Aug. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#34">New rant</a>.
<p>28 Jul to 4 Aug. Uploaded remaining Brazil journal entries:
<a href="viagem2.html">two</a>,
<a href="viagem3.html">three</a>,
<a href="viagem4.html">four</a>,
<a href="viagem5.html">five</a>,
<a href="viagem6.html">six</a>,
<a href="viagem7.html">seven</a>,
<a href="viagem8.html">eight</a>.
<p>27 Jul. <b>Metaverse for August.</b> Added a page <a href="spoke.html">comparing bad human and machine translations from Portuguese</a> and <a href="viagem1.html">extracts from my Brazil journal</a>. Also corrected a typo in the Amerindian Words in English page, and added a few <a href="rockers.html">rock bands</a>.
<p>Irgend Jemand has made some corrections to <a href="germcult.html">the German culture test</a> and to the German part of <a href="phrases.html">the Zompist Phrasebook</a>, and come out from the safety of his pseudonym; his real name is Raphael Landeck.
<p>24 Jul. New rant.
<p>16 Jul. New rant.
<p>15 Jul. Updated the <a href="lovelinx.shtml">Love & Rockets links</a> with a few new pages (including a message board).
<p>8 Jul. <a href="rants02.html#31">New rant</a>.
<p>6 Jul. New rant. A few new numbers; see the sources page for the changes.
Corrected a number of typos in the Verdurian grammar. Updated the
Verdurian dictionaries and the Cadhinor lexicon.
Corrected more typos in the French version of the numbers page.
<p>3 Jul. <b>Metaverse for July</b>. Added a page on <a href="searle.html">Searle's Chinese Room</a>.
<p>26 Jun. New rant. Corrected some typos in the Gaiman review; added a tip
to the <a href="winciv2.html">Civ2 page</a> about Aegis Cruisers.
<p>21 Jun. Added a few words to the <a href="arabic.html">Arabic Words in English</a> page: lemon, racket, rebec, rook.
<p>18 Jun. New rant.
<p>9 Jun. <b>Metaverse for June</b>: added <a href="nmd.html">the Readers' Commentary to the Not My Desk Commentary</a>, which will make no sense to you if you're not already a <a href="http://www.notmydesk.com">Not My Desk</a> fan.
<p>Also, Anna Shnayder has kindly revised the <a href="phrases2.html">Russian translation of the Zompist Phrasebook</a>.
<p>5 Jun. Another rant.
<p>4 Jun. Minor redesign of the front page.
<p>3 Jun. Two new rants. Also added a bit to <a href="http://www.zompist.com/bob37.html#2">the <i>Transmetropolitan</i> review</a>.
<p>30 May. Another rant. Updated the Spinnmap.
<p>24 May. A new rant. Fixed a bunch of typos (and added a few new words) in Proto-Eastern, Ismaîn, and Barakhinei.
<p>21 May. Added a section on syntax and a sample text to the <a href="eastern2.html">Proto-Eastern page</a>. Also, the Cuzeian sound changes are revised,
and the lexicon is updated.
<p>20 May. Extended the creeping redesign to the message board.
<p>18 May. Hirofumi Nagamura updated the <a href="http://www.zompist.com/japancult.html">Japanese culture test</a>. For a limited time, you can <a href="http://www.kh.rim.or.jp/~nagamura/zompist/japancult-tagged.html">see the changes here</a>.
<p>17 May. Redesigned the <a href="virtuver.htm">Virtual Verduria page</a>.
Also linked to Philip's Almea page from <a href="embassy.htm">the Ambassadorial Service page</a>.
<p>14 May. New rant.
<p>13 May. OK, here's the other new page for this month: <a href="whylang.html">When do people learn languages?</a>
<p>11 May. Added scans for the reviews of <a href="bob7.html">Patty Leidy</a>
and <a href="bob9.html">Walt Holcombe</a>. Corrected some typos in refs.htm and names.htm.
<p>9 May. <b>Metaverse for May</b>, or part of it: <a href="bob37.html">Bob reviews <i>King David</i> and <i>Transmetropolitan</i></a>.
<p>6 May. New rant.
<p>28 Apr. Updated the Spinnland map; corrected a link in the Kit.
<p>24 Apr. Another rant.
<p>22 Apr. New rant. A couple corrections to the Canada test.
<p>17 Apr. New rant. And another one from Wednesday I forgot to mention.
<p>14 Apr. More <a href="rockers.html">band names</a>. Some corrections to
the Verdurian grammar and to the Canadian culture test. Added some conlangs
to the numbers list.
<p>9 Apr. <b>Metaverse for April</b>. Added a <a href="canada.html">Canadian culture test</a>. Corrected more Verdurian typos.
<p>7 Apr. Fixed some typos in the Verdurian grammar. Also worked on an
actual new page, which should be done in a day or two.
<p>30 Mar. A couple of conlangs added to the numbers page. Fixed broken links on the yingzi and andalou pages.
<p>25 Mar. The <a href="spinn.html">SpinnWebe Spiral</a> changed location.
<p>23 Mar. Added two conlangs' numbers; fixed a typo in the million-speakers-languages list. Restored the missing answer on the rants page. Ranted some
more about Civ3.
<p>18 Mar. Another rant (which will explain why big updates are not to
be expected for a bit...)
<p>14 Mar. Another rant.
<p>12 Mar. Two rants for the price of one! Plus the answer to the puzzler rant thing.
<p>11 Mar. Corrected some typos in the <a href="lessons.htm">Practical Course</a>. Reformatted the <a href="ismain.htm#Conventional">conventional expressions in Ismaîn</a>. What happened to the monthly update? It's basically been consumed in
the spring crunch at work. There should be some new pages for April...
<p>10 Mar. Added <a href="syntax.htm#transforms">a section</a> to the Verdurian grammar to clarify headless relative clauses; also made references to <a href="ver2eng.htm">the Dictionary</a> into links.
<p>9 Mar. Corrected some typos in the native Cadhinor grammar, the Luke translation, and the Chinese version of the phrasebook. Verduria now has <a href="embassy.htm">diplomatic relations</a> with Tegireserana.
<p>3 Mar. Uploaded Philip Newton's <a href="http://www.zompist.com/vtexts.htm#luke">translation of Luke 2:1-21 into Verdurian</a>. Added a <a href="lang30.html#31">new question</a> to the sci.lang FAQ.
<p>27 Feb. New rant.
<p>26 Feb. The language classification for Amerindian languages in <a href="numbers.shtml">the numbers list</a> has been
thoroughly revised to follow Lyle Campbell's <i>American Indian Languages</i> (1997). This means a lot of languages moved around, a few changed names, dialect status, or (sadly) became extinct, and a few new dialects were added.
The most noticeable difference, however, is that Campbell is an extreme splitter, where Ruhlen is an extreme lumper-- Campbell has well over 200 families where Ruhlen has just 3. I have kept quite a few of Campbell's families next to their traditional or Ruhlenian relatives (e.g. Hokan, Penutian, Andean, Equatorial), mostly for convenience, and so that the image map still works. Don't expect these groups to be resuscitated by future research; some are simply hopeless, and others will very likely be greatly rearranged-- e.g. note that Campbell places Cariban with Tupi,
not (like Ruhlen) with Ge and Pano. In general, North and Central American families are well studied, and South American ones are still up for grabs.
<p>21 Feb. New rant.
<p>19 Feb. Corrected a typo in the Language Construction Kit.
<p>9 Feb. Linked to Klaus Brunner's Austrian <a href="amercult.html">culture test</a>.
<p>4 Feb. <b>Metaverse for February</b>. Added some <a href="crib.html">Crib Notes for the Turing Test</a>. Added a few more numbers; there are now <b>4600</b> sets. New rant.
<p>3 Feb. Updated the hit statistics on <a href="bday.html">the about page</a> for 2001.
<p>31 Jan. Fixed some link rot in the Language Construction Kit.
<p>29 Jan. Updated some of the explanations etc. on <a href="numbers.shtml">the numbers page</a>.
<p>28 Jan. <a href="http://www.zompist.com/rants02.html#5">New rant</a>.
<p>22 Jan. J. Leavitt sent me a cute picture of Oruseon and Rhavcaëna, two of the <a href="pagan.htm#gods">Cadhinorian gods</a>. (He drew Fidra too, but that picture as a bit incomplete.) Thanks, mon!
<p>21 Jan. Added three new <a href="frenchy.html">French comics</a>; clarified my odd description of German verbs in the Language Construction Kit; explained
<a href="spell.html#almost">the almost-regular u to o change</a> in English spelling. Made some corrections to the Verdurian-English dictionary.
<p>17 Jan. <a href="rants02.html#4">New rant</a>. New rock band. Corrected the katakana in the header for the <a href="japancult.html">Japanese culture test</a>. Corrections to <a href="bara.htm">Barakhinei</a> (realized that nouns in -â are a separate declension).
<p>15 Jan. Added scans to the <a href="bob1.html#2"><i>Dykes to Watch Out For</i></a> review.
<p>14 Jan. New rant.
<p>12 Jan. <a href="http://www.notmydesk.com">Tieboy</a> wanted a small ad (this one is 150 x 50 pixels) for zompist.com, and maybe someone
else does. You can include a clickable ad by including the html to the right;
change "zlogo" to "zlogo2" to get the second ad.
<blockquote>
<table><tr>
<td><img src="zlogo.gif" align="middle"> <td>
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<td> <tt>
<a href="http://www.zompist.com"><img src="http://www.zompist.com/zlogo.gif"></a>
</tt>
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<p>11 Jan. New rant.
<p>10 Jan. Peter fixed some typos in the Chinese phrasebook.
<p>5 Jan. Corrected the Spinnmap. Updated <a href="thematic.htm">the Thematic Dictionary</a>.
<p>4 Jan. Is it <b>January</b> already? Bob reviewed <a href="bob36.html"><i>From Hell</i> and <i>Gordo</i></a>. <a href="rants02.html">New rant page</a> for 2002. A Canadian culture test is in the works.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2001 </h3>
<p>30 Dec. Added (a revised version of) John Minot's translation of <i>The Hollow Men</i> to <a href="vtexts.htm">the Verdurian texts</a>. Corrections to <a href="visitor.htm">Visitor's Guide</a> (no mules) and <a href="kingdom.htm">Kingdom of Verduria page</a> (named <i>avisar</i> students; weight of gold in table was wrong; added a Cadhinorian coin); added a note on alphabetization to the Verdurian-English dictionary.
<p>25 Dec. Added scans to several pages of Bob's, including <a href="bob9.html"><i>Very Vicky</i></a> and <a href="bob12.html"><i>Red Meat</i></a>.
<p>23 Dec. Took advantage of the long weekend and the feverish intensity of
a cold to finish off the <a href="http://www.zompist.com/atlas/">Historical Atlas</a> (four new maps). Also redid the <a href="drill2.htm">map of Ereláe</a> in the Drilldown. Corrected the languages names on the map on <a href="eastern2.html">proto-Eastern page</a>.
<p>18 Dec. Uploaded the <a hef="eng2ver.htm">English-Verdurian dictionary</a>, and updated links to reflect this. Removed the Word versions of the dictionaries, to save bandwidth.
<p>16 Dec. Two new Atlas maps (3410, 3480), which take us up to the Almean present; still, there are a few more maps to go. And a new rant.
<p>12 Dec. A half dozen or so new or corrected <a href="numbers.shtml">number sets</a>. I reset the change colors on the sources page, so it currenty
indicates what's new since Oct 2. Corrected some typos on the French translation of the numbers page, and hopefully fixed some lexical errors in the Portuguese Language Contruction Kit.
<p>Uploaded an html version of <a href="ver2eng.htm">the Verdurian to English dictionary</a>.
<p>11 Dec. New rant. Also added scans to <a href="bob2.html#2">the Mafalda review</a>, so non-Hispanophones can see what they're missing.
<p>10 Dec. <b>Metaverse for December</b>. Bob reviews <a href="bob35.html"><i>Snake 'n' Bacon</i> and <i>Evil Eye</i></a>; the Zompist Phrasebook is now
available <a href="phrases3.html">in Chinese</a>. Two new Atlas maps (3220, 3302). A few new <a href="frenchy.html">French comics</a>.
<p>4 Dec. Minor tweak to the Verdurian syntax page (added an example of a street name).
<p>3 Dec. Two new Atlas maps (3004, 3059), and a tweak to the text of
map 2958; and a new rant. New pages for December coming soon.
<p>26 Nov. Another rant, and two new Atlas maps (2870, 2958).
<p>19 Nov. Two new Atlas maps (2620C, 2750) and a new rant.
<p>18 Nov. Fixed some bad datives in the Ismaîn grammar.
<p>13 Nov. Updated the <a href="bara.htm">Barakhinei</a> and <a href="ismain.htm">Ismaîn grammars</a> as well as the <a href="cadhlex.htm">Cadhinor lexicon</a> with those changes to Cadhinor, some new words, and updated stress information.
Thanks to Philip, the <a href="native.htm">native grammar of Cadhinor</a> has been updated to use DUMEC as a paradigmatic verb in place of LIUBEC, which is partly irregular.
<p>12 Nov. Two new <a href="/atlas/">Atlas</a> maps (2538, 2620). Also rewrote <a href="cadhex.htm#5.7">the Cadhinor to Verdurian sound changes</a> and corrected a typo in the Native Cadhinor grammar (<i>psiekeda</i> was misspelled).
And the <a href="eguide.html">2000 Election Guide</a> needed a postscript.
<p>9 Nov. New rant.
<p>8 Nov. Changed a couple dozen words in Cadhinor and Verdurian.
Details, for those few who will care, on the message board.
<p>7 Nov. Corrected a typo in the Ismaîn grammar (reference to an earlier form of the pronoun <u>s</u>i). Several corrections to the Cadhinor grammar, including errors in the verb conjugation tables for -R verbs, and a bad choice of sample verbs.
<p>5 Nov. Found a better example of <ph> != /f/ for the <a href="spell.html">spelling document</a>. Improved an example in the <a href="howto.htm">how-to document</a> in Virtual Verduria (the antialiasing example didn't work so well with a background gradient!).
<p>4 Nov. Two new Atlas maps (2440, 2490); a new rant.
<p>1 Nov. New rant. Added a note to <a href="secreth.htm">the Secret History</a> (about the origin of the word <i>zut</i>).
Geoff updated (and improved) <a href="scotcult.htm">the Scottish culture test</a>.
<p>30 Oct. <b>Metaverse for November</b>. <a href="za.html">South African culture test</a>; <a href="arabic.html">Arabic words in English</a>. Two new Atlas maps (2220, 2310); also added something about Kebri for 1750 and 1989.
<p>23 Oct. The <a href="civ2.htm">Almea scenario for Civ2</a> is now available for the <b>PC</b>! (Also clarified the declension of <i>nish</i> and corrected a typo in the Verdurian grammar.)
<p>22 Oct. Two new Atlas maps (1989, 2155) and a new rant.
<p>17 Oct. Yet another rant.
<p>15 Oct. Two new <a href="atlas">Atlas</a> maps (1750, 1750 C).
<p>13 Oct. New rant. Fixed some typos in the Verdurian grammar.
<p>10 Oct. Updated the <a href="embassy.htm">Verdurian Embassy page</a>. Added another rant. Updated <a href="spinn.html">the SpinnStuff page</a> too.
<p>8 Oct. New rant. The road sign to Verduria on the front page is now corrected, thanks to Philip Newton. And, two new Atlas maps (1650, 1683).
<p>6 Oct. Rearranged some perfectly good html on the <a href="notmydesk.html">Not My Desk interview</a> so Netscape wouldn�t choke on it. And it turns out that "Mint Sauce for the Masses" isn't <a href="rockers.html">a band name</a> but the name of an album. Corrected a mistranslation in the <a href="ptkitlong.html#tone">Portuguese version of the LCK</a>.
<p>2 Oct. Additions and corrections to the numbers list. As usual, see
<a href="sources.htm">the sources file</a> for what changed. Fixed some typos in the Verdurian lessons (<i>hutor</i> was sometimes used for 'farmer' not 'farm'; and a couple pronouns were wrong in the Lesson 3 text.
<p>1 Oct. <b>Metaverse for October</b>. Added an <a href="notmydesk.html">interview with Chris</a>, a.k.a. tieboy, the man behind Not My Desk; a page of <a href="facts.html">facts from my bookshelf</a>, and a <a href="cadhlex.htm">Cadhinor lexicon</a>. Added two maps (1645 and a map of Europe superimposed on Ereláe) to the Atlas. Corrected some errors in the Cadhinor examples. Added a new rant. Some sf references added to the sci.lang FAQ.
<p>28 Sep. Corrections to the Verdurian grammar. Added <a href="cadhex.htm">samples of Cadhinor</a> and other material to go with <a href="native.htm">the grammar</a>.
<p>25 Sep. Dutch has been added to <a href="phrases2.html">the Zompist Phrasebook</a>, thanks to Constantijn van Slochteren.
<p>24 Sep. Two new Atlas maps (1616, 1632).
<p>20 Sep. Another rant.
<p>17 Sep. Two new Atlas maps (1342, 1525).
<p>16 Sep. A couple of new Barakhinei words (fokhê, rênfetê).
<p>15 Sep. New rant.
<p>13 Sep. Correction to a Voltaire quote in the French culture test.
There was also a new rant Tuesday.
<p>10 Sep. Two new Atlas maps (Z.E. 1024, 1150).
<p>9 Sep. Numbers additions (Rheinfrankisch, Teoshi) and corrections (Luxembourgeois, Classical Hebrew, Gweno).
<p>7 Sep. Corrections and clarifications to the Verdurian grammar.
<p>3 Sep. New rant; two new Atlas maps (750, 938).
<p>Corrected a redundancy in the sci.lang FAQ. Corrected a typo in
<a href="kingdom.htm">the Kingdom of Verduria page</a> (a misspelled Verdurian word) and made the schooling table easier to read. Changed the JavaScript in the Atlas to make it work for Linux browsers.
<p>31 Aug. <b>Metaverse for September</b>. Finally got <a href="zhangsp.html">a new Fuschia comic</a> done. I kind of wish I could show it to you as JPEGs-- the colors are more gorgeous-- but the bandwidth is high enough already. Also: a <a href="italcult.html">culture test for Italy</a>, by Riccardo Distasi.
<p>28 Aug. Added icons to <a href="zhang.htm">the Fuschia page</a>-- grab 'em! Re-recorded the <a href="almeasounds.htm">Sounds of Almea</a>, adding Xurnásh. Updated <a href="wedei.html">the Wede:i grammar</a> with new words. New rant.
<p>And, Gustavo Pereira very kindly translated <a href="ptkit.html">the Language Construction Kit into Portuguese</a>-- a massive effort. Muito obrigado!
<p>27 Aug. Added down10 and humbreto to the Spinnmap. Added a couple of new number sets. Added two new maps to the Atlas (600, 600c).
<p>26 Aug. Restored the <a href="sounds.htm">Sound Change Applier</a> page.
I stupidly overwrote it with the Sounds of Almea page.
<p>25 Aug. A few more Verdurian and Cadhinor corrections.
<p>24 Aug. New rant. Corrections to the Verdurian grammar.
<p>23 Aug. New bands. More Cadhinor corrections.
<p>20 Aug. Added a new Atlas map.
<p>19 Aug. Noticed the screen saver in <a href="smax.html">Sam & Max</a>.
Also, now you can <a href="almeasounds.htm">hear what Almean languages sound like</a>.
<p>16 Aug. Fixes and clarifications in the Verdurian and Cadhinor grammars. Philip's been at me again. :)
<p>15 Aug. Fixed some typos, clarified some points, and shaded the tables in the Verdurian <a href="morphology.htm">morphology section</a>.
<p>13 Aug. Added two maps to the Atlas. Fixed some typos, and added translations for grammatical
terms, in Kebreni. Renamed Frodo in Verdurian. Recounted parliamentary
votes.
<p>12 Aug. New rant. Added down10 to the faces file.
<p>10 Aug. New rant. Added or corrected some numbers.
<p>9 Aug. Added a new rant (<a href="rants.html#40">a review of <i>Ghost World</i></a>).
<p>8 Aug. I'm informed that Frodo <i>wasn't</i> Froda in Westron, but
<i>Maura</i>. Added Tongan to <a href="thought.html">They Thought You'd Say This</a>. Clarified the status of color <a href="ranma.html">Ranma</a>.
<p>6 Aug. <b>Metaverse for August</b>. Put up the first installment of
the <a href="atlas/index.html">Historical Atlas of Almea</a>. Bob reviewed <a href="bob34.html">Kabuki and Finder</a>. There's a new Fuschia Chang comic coming, but it's not done yet...
<p>1 Aug. Yeeks. All fifty pages of <a href="virtuver.htm">Virtual
Verduria</a> were modified-- mostly to add a logo, implement a single exploration path (follow the "Onward!" icons), and fix some HTML that IE4 liked but
IE5 chokes on. There's a <a href="drill1.htm">new map</a> on the Almea
page, and <a href="verbio.htm">a map of non-humans on Almea</a> (as well
as some added facts on ktuvoks and flaids) on the biology page.
<p>Also, new rants today and yesterday.
<p>25 Jul. Similar revisions to <a href="bara.htm">the Barakhinei grammar</a>.
<p>24 Jul. Updated the <a href="ismain.htm">Ismaîn</a> grammar (because of changes in Cadhinor and about 80 new words; also prettified some sections, and fixed some html that IE5 choked on).
<p>23 Jul. Revised the irregular verbs in <a href="native.htm">Cadhinor</a>, taking them back to
<a href="eastern2.html#Simple">proto-Eastern</a>.
<p>22 Jul. Added two rants, and a couple of bands. And corrected more typos in
the Kebreni grammar.
<p>16 Jul. Changed the <a href="drill0.htm">Almean solar system</a>
page to reflect the fact that I now know what is the closest star.
And this in turn was to support the <a href="civ2.htm">revised Civ2 scenario</a>.
<p>13 Jul. Corrected some typos and thinkos in the Kebreni grammar,
and updated it with new words. (Thanks to Philip Newton; not many people
would be capable of finding a typo in a table of Kebreni verbs.)
Also, there's a new rant.
<p>12 Jul. <b>Metaverse for July</b>. Added an <a href="aussie.html">Australian culture test</a> and, at long last, <a href="quotes6.html">a new page of quotes</a>. New D&D summary, too.
<p>6 Jul. Added a rant. This month's update is coming.
<p>30 Jun. Added something to the Sam & Max page (credit sequence).
D&D is updated.
<p>27 Jun. Added some <a href="board/messages/82.html">more stuff to read</a> in Verdurian.
<p>21 Jun. Finally got around to updating the numbers page-- about 40 new
sets and corrections. See <a href="sources.htm">the sources page</a> to
see what's new; I reset the color coding. Also, new rant.
<p>20 Jun. Added some new info to the <a href="smax.html">Sam & Max page</a>,
most notably a list of Max sightings in other LucasArts games.
<p>17 Jun. New <a href="rants.html#30">rant</a>. Miscelleneous corrections,
and some new stores, on <a href="frenchy.html">the European comics page</a>.
<p>12 Jun. <b>Metaverse for June</b>. Added a <a href="smax.html">non-walkthrough of the Sam & Max video game</a>; finally html-ized the <a href="lessons.htm">Practical Course in Verdurian</a>.
<p>9 Jun. Updated the <a href="loveroc4.html#mag2001">Love & Rockets chronology</a> 'cos of the new issue. Corrected a typo on the American Culture page.
Also note that there's been some business on the <a href="board/">bulletin board</a>.
<p>6 Jun. Another rant.
<p>31 May. Updated the D&D page. The <a href="/board/">Virtual Verduria Message Board</a> is also open for business again.
<p>30 May. New <a href="rants.html#29">rant</a>. Also, updated the D&D
page and the map for the Spinnvolk.
<p>14 May. <b>Metaverse for May</b>.
Added a <a href="indcult.html">culture test for India</a>
and a <a href="native.htm">native grammar of Cadhinor</a>.
Bob reviewed <a href="bob33.html"><i>Lone Wolf and Cub</i> and <i>Space Usagi</i></a>.
<p>11 May. Updated the D&D page.
<p>7 May. New rant; new picture on the <a href="bob26.html"><i>Sandman</i> review</a>. New pages are coming, hold your horses.
<p>6 May. Cited a book on Whorf in the sci.lang FAQ.
<p>2 May. Came back from vacation to find that I'd been laid off.
Anyone in the Chicago area looking for an experienced C/C++ programmer...?
(Corollary: <tt>[email protected]</tt> is no longer a good way
to <a href="contact.html">contact me</a>.)
<p>Added a new rant, and a couple of Indian words (coho and pirogue).
<p>17 Apr. New rant.
<p>16 Apr. Changed all the <tt>mailto</tt> links to point to my
new <a href="contact.html">contact page</a>. And I'll repeat the main
bit of news here: I'm on vacation till the end of April, so
correspondance will be delayed more than usual.
<p>12 Apr. New rant.
<p>11 Apr. Felix Wan very nicely provided me with a <a href="faye.html#sing">singable Chinese version</a> of 'Eyes on Me'.
<p>10 Apr. Decided that everybody like a backstory; added an <a href="zhang.htm">intro to Fuschia Chang</a>.
<p>9 Apr. New rant.
<p>6 Apr. Noted an interview with the creator of <a href="bob29.html#2"><i>Leisuretown</i></a>. Added more band names.
<p>5 Apr. Rewrote <a href="langorg.htm#wed">a section</a> of the
essay on "Proto-World and the Language Organ", and added
<a href="langorg.htm#update">some neurological notes</a>.
<p>2 Apr. Added <a href="rockers.html">a couple of band names</a>.
And God knows why outsiders would want to follow <a href="swdd.html">our D&D game</a>, but we have that technology.
I also reformatted some <a href="zhang.htm">Fuschia comics</a>
to follow Scott McCloud's advice: the computer screen is not a comic book page...
<p>1 Apr. Added Danish to the Phrasebook. Updated some advice on the
<a href="winciv2.htm#size">Winning Civ2 page</a>.
<p>30 Mar. <b>Metaverse for April</b>.
Added a page on <a href="secreth.htm">how Verduria was created</a>,
a <a href="nztest.html">New Zealand culture test</a>, and translations of
<a href="phrases2.html">the Zompist Phrasebook</a> into Russian and Italian.
Added scans to all the <a href="lovelinx.shtml">Love & Rockets pages</a>.
Added lyrics to 'Eyes on Me' to the <a href="faye.html">Faye Wong lyrics page</a>.
Added wacky search strings to the <a href="bday.html">birthday page</a>.
Added some <a href="bob7.html">Elizabeth Watasin scans</a>.
And linked to Panu Höglund's Irish translation of the <a href="predic.htm">predicament page</a>. Was this a busy day or what?
<p>27 Mar. Another rant, and <a href="frenchy.html#sfar">another French comic</a>. Updated the #sw icons.
<p>22 Mar. More ranting.
<p>21 Mar. Another day, another rant. Also added a link to the
<a href="frenchy.html">French comics page</a>, and added a scan
to the <a href="bob23.html#2">Trondheim review</a>.
<p>19 Mar. Added <a href="thought.html#GAELIC">more wacky phrasebook phrases</a>.
<p>13 Mar. Updated the <a href="loveroc1.html">Love & Rockets chronology</a> and <a href="Lovinchar.html">character list</a> with the stories
in <i>Penny Century #7</i> and <i>Love & Rockets</i> Vol. II #1.
<p>12 Mar. Added a rant. Updated a web-ref in the sci.lang FAQ.
<p>Added <a href="amercult.html#space">a new section</a> to the
American culture test. If you've written one of the non-American
sections, I urge you to send me the corresponding entries!
<p>1 Mar. Decided to post my complete <a href="versci.htm">research on (al)chemical names</a>.
Added another rant.
<p>26 Feb. <b>Metaverse for March</b>. Added a page on <a href="lore.html">what happens when you meet Lore</a>;
Bob reviewed <a href="bob32.html">Sam & Max and The Boondocks</a>. Plus, <a href="rants.html#15">viewer mail!</a> And more to come!
<p>25 Feb. Two <i>more</i> rants. Also, finally wrote
<a href="http://www.zompist.com/asimov.htm#brin">comments on the last Foundation book</a>.
<p>13 Feb. <i>Two</i> new rants.
<p>12 Feb. New rant.
<p>7 Feb. Added <a href="winciv2.htm#gummint">more stuff on governments in Civ2</a>.
Updated the Spinnmap and Spinnicons.
<p>5 Feb. <b>Metaverse for February</b>. Added a page on <a href="winciv2.htm">how to win at Civ2</a>;
finally, after almost two years, drew the last picture for the <a href="drill10.htm">the Verdurian drilldown</a>;
put up a <a href="history.htm">diagram of Almean history</a>.
<p>23 Jan. New rant; updated the spinnmap; corrected typos in the
culture test and thematic dictionary.
<p>22 Jan. New rant. Put up a <a href="verbio.htm">picture of a flaid</a> (a scan of a years-old pic).
<p>18 Jan. New rant. Featured another irc log. It's really on
<a href="http://www.spinnoff.com/swhc/">Raven's site</a>, but it
heavily features me, and I drew the pictures. So.
<p>11 Jan. New rant. Added a book recommendation to the Kit.
<p>9 Jan. <a href="rants.html">New rant</a>.
Also updated the #spinnwebe icons.
<p>7 Jan. Yay! Got a new scanner. So I could finally provide an illo for <a href="bob31.html">Bob's Jimmy Corrigan review</a>.
<p>2 Jan. Added to the <a href="rants.html">rants page</a>; did
some <a href="bday.html">analysis of hits in the last year</a>;
added some <a href="indianwd.html">Amerindian words</a>
and some <a href="tiras.html">Latin American comics</a>.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 2000 </h3>
<p>29 Dec. <b>Metaverse for January</b>. Added a page on <a href="thought.html">unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks</a>;
finished out the election page; inaugurated an <a href="rants.html">ongoing rant page</a>.
<p>27 Dec. Irgend made some modifications to the <a href="germcult.html">German culture test</a>.
<p>19 Dec. Added some more <a href="rockers.html">band names</a>.
<p>14 Dec. Updated the election guide; corrected a couple of thinkos in Virtual Verduria.
<p>6 Dec. <b>Metaverse for December</b>. Added <a href="android.html">reviews of <i>Blade Runner</i> and the Dick novel it's based on</a>; Bob reviewed <a href="bob31.html">Jimmy Corrigan</a>.
Added new logos to a bunch of pages. Renamed the early Bob pages (so they're all uniform).
Did a long-overdue update to <a href="lovelinx.shtml">the Love & Rockets links page</a>.
<p>5 Dec. More election stuff. I'm working on other new stuff. Really.
<p>17 Nov. Updated the election guide; rearranged the intro page for Virtual Verduria.
Pointed to a new Breton culture guide.
<p>8 Nov. Updated the election guide.
<p>2 Nov. Updated the election guide and the <a href="richtax.htm">tax the rich page</a>;
rewrote <a href="lang16.html">the sci.lang FAQ question about Eskimo words for snow</a>.
<p>25 Oct. Made <a href="eguide.html">some predictions</a> in the
Election Guide. Also added various scans to Bob's reviews.
<p>17 Oct. Finally worked out a <a href="vercult.html">Verdurian culture test</a>.
<p>16 Oct. Put up some icons for the #spinnwebe crew. Also, Irgend
updated the German election guide and made some corrections to the phrasebook.
<p>12 Oct. Updated the election guide.
<p>11 Oct. Documented <a href="clone.html">the night we cloned Tieboy</a> in #spinnwebe. The channel is like a 24-hour improv game;
sometimes it produces brilliant comedy, sometimes horrid foolishness--
your call which this is.
<p>7 Oct. <b>Metaverse for October</b>. Added a <a href="dutchcult.html">Dutch culture test</a>; Bob reviewed <a href="bob30.html">Watchmen and Kevin & Kell</a>; the spinnmap is updated.
<p>27 Sep. Revised the <a href="sydavian.html">Syldavian grammar</a>,
in light of Yves Horeau's decipherment of the first version of the
medieval Syldavian text.
<p>26 Sep. Some minor changes to the <a href="langfaq.html">sci.lang FAQ</a>.
<p>20 Sep. About thirty more numbers... finally processing the backlog.
For fellow number freaks who really need to know which ones are new:
look at <a href="sources.htm">the sources page</a>, view the source of the
page, and do a search for "# 0ffff" (that is, red text!).
<p>18 Sep. Irgend also translated the <a href="phrases.html">Zompist Phrasebook</a> into German, so you can now get in trouble in three languages. Also made two corrections to the German culture test (on vacations and Bavarians).
<p>Also updated the election guide today, made some format changes and added some answers to frequent questions in the Language Construction Kit,
and corrected an inaccurate statement about German grammar there.
<p>More numbers: a bunch of conlangs, two West Atlantic sets, two
newly described Vietnamese languages (one Tibeto-Burman, one Kadai). There are now more than <b>4500</b> languages and dialects.
<p>5 Sep. Thanks to Irgend Jemand, the election guide is now available
<a href="elecgerm.htm">in German</a>.
<p>29 Aug. <b>Metaverse for September</b>. Bob reviewed <a href="bob29.html">Scott McCloud and Leisuretown</a>;
added <a href="predic.htm">a long rant on our political predicament</a>.
Also made a few changes to the <a href="langfaq.html">sci.lang FAQ</a>.
<p>27 Aug. Added or changed about 12 <a href="numbers.shtml">sets of numbers</a>. Since it's been awhile, I reset all the colors on <a href="sources.htm">the sources page</a>, so you can easily see what's new.
<p>18 Aug. Used Unicode instead of a special font on the spelling guide; also added
some information from Hirofumi Nagamura on <i>ginkgo</i>, and pointed out a dialect
variation on rule 29a. And since I learned how,
everyone should: Added a link to the sci.lang FAQ to a page on representing IPA in Unicode.
<p>16 Aug. Added some world-building links to the <a href="kit.html">Language Construction Kit</a> (check the bottom of the page).
Corrected a phonological error in Verdurian (I didn't know that German <i>Hüte</i> has a different vowel than <i>Hütte</i>).
Explained the term <a href="chemical.htm">fixed air</a>.
Thanks to alert readers Evan Meyer and Jurgen Mifsud for the last two.
<p>11 Aug. Made some corrections to the spelling guide, in response
to several people's comments.
<p>9 Aug. Put up <a href="civ2.htm">a Civilization II scenario</a>
set on Almea. Added a bit more info in Virtual Verduria on flaids.
<p>8 Aug. More <a href="eguide.html">election news</a>, and an
answer to <a href="bob27.html#this">the usual anti-Frank Cho ranting</a>.
<p>6 Aug. Added <a href="amercult.html">a link on the American culture page to Andrew Chaney's page on how to tell if you're from Louisiana</a>.
<p>31 Jul. Updated the election guide. Added links to new pages.
<p>28 Jul. Updated the <a href="howto.htm">how-to guide</a> for aspiring
constructed-world artists (con artists?). The <a href="eguide.html">election guide</a> is also up to date.
<p>27 Jul. <b>Metaverse for August</b>. Added a page on <a href="spell.html">how English spelling works</a>
and (at the request of the VV Message Boarders) <a href="eastern2.html">a page on Proto-Eastern</a>
<p>4 Jul. <b>Metaverse for July</b>. Added a <a href="pomcult.html">culture test for England</a>. It's great
when people write stuff for me. Don't we have any Dutch, Chinese, or Iranian people
out there who want to do one?
<p>28 Jun. Improved the translation of a couple lines in <a href="faye.html#12">one of Faye's songs</a>-- thanks, Laurie and Eugene.
<p>20 Jun. At Irgend's request, added a line to the German culture test. No time to do anything else... too busy playing Civilization II.
<p>9 Jun. Added some links to the embassy page; corrected a typo in the Zeir story, and updated the Spinnland map.
<p>7 Jun. Changed main page to highlight new stuff a bit more. Updated the graphic to the <a href="amercult.html">American culture page</a>, and added a link to a site that presents the same material by subject. Updated <a href="eguide.html">the election guide</a>.
<p>4 Jun. <b>Metaverse for June</b>. Added a <a href="bob28.html">review of <i>Gunsmith Cats</i> and <i>Black Jack</i></a>.
Added the <b>Virtual Verduria Message Board</b> for people learning Verdurian or eager
to discuss Almea.
<p>23 May. Jazzed up the <a href="frenchy.html">French comics page</a> with some scans.
<p>15 May. The <a href="sounds.htm">Sound Change Applier</a> is now available as a Macintosh binary.
<p>9 May. Updated the <a href="eguide.html">election guide</a> and the
Spinnland map. Made a couple of corrections to the German culture page.
<p>4 May. Added some more numbers. Replaced the <a href="verbio.htm">picture of an Almean girl</a>.
<p>2 May. <b>Metaverse for May</b>. Added a page on <a href="germcult.html">how to tell if you're German</a>, and <a href="flash.html">a page for learning hiragana</a>. Added some links to these, too.
<p>1 May. Added some more numbers and sources.
<p>24 Apr. <a href="eguide.html">Commented on</a> the Elián circus.
<p>22 Apr. Improved the formatting and internal links in the <a href="verdurian.htm">Verdurian grammar</a>.
<p>19 Apr. More numbers, and a Verdurian word for machine gun.
Corrected a typo in the phrasebook.
<p>16 Apr. Added a creole (Skepi) and subtracted one that was the same as another one under a different name. D'oh! And a few more.
<p>3 Apr. Added some African and creole numbers; updated some sources.
(Note: recent changes are color-coded on <a href="sources.htm">the sources page</a>.)
<p>1 Apr. <b>Metaverse for April</B>. Updated the <a href="bday.html">birthday page</a>; added pages on <a href="japancult.html">Japanese culture</a>, <a href="snow.html">Snow Crash</a>, and <a href="memes.html">Lynch's <i>Thought Contagion</i></a>.
<p>28 Mar. The <a href="sources.htm">sources page</a> for the numbers
list is now automatically generated from my master list, rather than
maintained separately and laboriously. What this means for you, the
reader, is that there's a good deal more information available, including titles of sources and notes on classification. I divided out the <a href="families.htm">language family information</a> that used to be scattered among the sources.
<p>22 Mar. Added some conlangs; corrected a bug in the numbers processing
program that merged left and right quotes. Updated the <a href="kebreni.htm">Kebreni page</a>. Improved the <a href="http://www.zompist.com/kitlong.html#conso">discussion of consonants and vowels</a> in the Language Construction Kit; made some other changes in the Kit.
<p>19 Mar. Added some more IE, creole, and Berber numbers, and corrected
some typos in the Amerindian section; also added some more <a href="rockers.html">band names</a>.
<p>6 Mar. Finally added some new numbers (mostly South American, Iranian
and other IE, Omotic, and constructed).
<p>28 Feb. <b>Metaverse for March</b>. The <a href="zhangvr.html">new Fuschia
comic</a> is finally done; she also now has <a href="zhang.htm">a page of her own</a>. Since I had to buy a new computer to work with the new scanner to
finish this, this is the most expensive comic, in dollars per page, ever.
But hey, the computer is really nice.
<p>Also put up the <a href="sounds.htm"> Sound Change Applier</a> program.
<p>23 Feb. Updated <a href="eguide.html">the election guide</a>.
<p>17 Feb. Added a stuffed Cthulhu to <a href="spinn.html">the SpinnStuff page</a>; from the same place you can now order your own Kittens On Fire t-shirt.
<p>12 Feb. Whee, new scanner! To celebrate, upgraded the pictures of
Tintin in the <a href="syldavian.html">Syldavian grammar</a>.
<p>31 Jan. <b>Metaverse for February.</b> Added a <a href="zeir.htm">Verdurian short story</a>,
and a <a href="eguide.html">election guide for 2000</a>. Also updated the Jaime pages with info on <a href="loveroc4.html#race">Penny Century #6</a> as well as <i>Measles</I> #5. Also added numbers for Fars.
<p>20 Jan. Updated the description of Ralf König on the
<a href="frenchy.html">Euro comics page</a> to focus on comics available in English.
<p>10 Jan. Added <a href="lang30.html">a new question on grammaticalization</a> to the <a href="langfaq.html">sci.lang FAQ</a>; also plugged a new
book, <i>Language Myths</i>, and added Tungusic to the classification.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 1999 </h3>
<p>10 Dec. Added <a href="moohelp.htm">a page of moo programming tips</a> for denizens of SpinnMoo.
<p>29 Nov. <b>Metaverse for December.</b> Added <a href="bob27.html">more comics reviews</a>; redesigned the main page, mostly to make it more compact. My web stats suggest that people don't scroll down much, and probably miss a lot.
<p>29 Nov. Added a new <a href="drill55.htm">map of Verduria city</a>,
and a new <a href="stores.html">source for French comics</a>.
<p>22 Nov. Finally found out <a href="stores.html">where Planète BD is</a>.
<p>17 Nov. Added a bunch of <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers</a>, in various areas; there are now over 4400 sets.
Also, Marnen Laibow-Koser pointed out a mistranslation on the <a href="secret.htm">Modern Verdurian page</a>-- St. Petersburg should be Nëron Petro, not Nëron Pavel. D'oh!
<p>Also updated the <a href="spinnl.html">map of #spinnland</a>
with Nyder, TitanRobb, and Kyol.
<p>9 Nov. Added some scans to the <a href="tiras.html">Latin American comis page</a>.
<p>5 Nov. Added a <a href="secret.htm">lexicon of Verdurian terms</a> for
talking about the modern terrestrial world.
<p>1 Nov. <b>Metaverse for November</b>. Added a <a href="tiras.html">
roundup of Latin American comics</a>.
Added a cover page collecting <a href="spinn.html">all my SpinnWebe-related pages</a>, including a new <a href="spinnl.html">map of #spinnland</a>. (This
also involved changing links on all the referenced pages.)
Removed an inaccurate reference to NASCAR on the <a href="frenchcult.html">French culture page</a>. Modified Bob's <a href="bob26.html">Sandman review</a>,
now that I've read the last two books.
<p>28 Oct. Corrected some typos (and explained <u>s</u> better) on the
<a href="ismain.htm">Ismaîn</a> page.
<p>22 Oct. Created a version of the <a href="dfcindexap.html">DFC Text Index</a> that works with archived copies of the DFC.
<p>18 Oct. Added two more <a href="lovelinx.shtml">Love & Rockets links</a>.
<p>11 Oct. Corrected <a href="kitlong.html#orthography">a Tolkien ref</a> and added <a href="kitgram.html#partspeech">a Borges one</a> to the Language Construction Kit;
updated the <a href="scotcult.htm">Scottish culture page</a> to note that there now is a Scottish parliament; removed Latin
American comics from the <a href="frenchy.html">French comics page</a>.
<p>9 Oct. Added about ten new number sets.
<p>1 Oct. <b>Metaverse for October</b>. Added <a href="dfcdead.html">an elegy
for one of the funniest websites ever</a>, as well as a <a href="dfc467.htm">sample page</a>. The Inside Guide has
also been updated, before being preserved in aspic.
<p>28 Sep. Added a bunch of numbers, mostly Papuan and S. American,
though the Hmong-Mien section is almost entirely new. There are now
more than 4300 languages.
<p>27 Sep. Revised the paper on <a href="chance.htm">chance resemblances</a>
to be clearer, and added a <a href="simm.html">computer simulation</a>.
<p>23 Sep. OK, I'm back, but with limited time due to a project at work.
But I did update the <a href="dfcindex.html">DFC text index</a>
and the <a href="dfcguide.shtml">Inside Guide to the DFC</a>.
<p>18 Aug. Note: I'm on vacation for three weeks... so, no updates
or e-mail till mid-September.
<p>14 Aug. Linked to Boudewijn Rempt's page on <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/andal/peoples_and_places/charya/charcult.html"> how to tell if you're Charyan</a>.
<p>10 Aug. Added or replaced about 80 <a href="sino.htm">Sino-Tibetan numbers</a>.
<p>1 Aug. <b>Metaverse for August</b>. Reviewed <a href="bob26.html">
The Sandman</a>; added a reference to Johanna Laakso's
<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/finntest.html">
How to tell if you're a Finn</a> page. Corrected a few typos.
<p>28 Jul. Added <a href="last.htm">D'ni</a>. Corrected an error in
the <a href="latam.html">U.S. Invasions</a> page.
<p>22 Jul. Added 36 <a href="benu.htm">Bantu languages</a>,
and replaced about 24 more.
<p>20 Jul. Just for Wabe-- put up the <a href="dfcsub.htm">Not the DFC</a> page.
<p>15 Jul. Added about 16 <a href="asia.htm#austro">Mon-Khmer</a> languages, and replaced a few more. There are now over 4200 sets.
<p>13 Jul. Added <i>Penny Century #5</i> to the <a href="loveroc4.html#election">Jaime chronology</a>. Noted a new text available for aficionados of <a href="verdurian.htm">Verdurian</a>.
Updated the <a href="dfcguide.shtml">Inside Guide to the DFC</a>.
<p>6 Jul. Added a couple more <a href="rockers.html">bands</a>. Updated
a linguistics URL.
<p>1 Jul. <b>Metaverse for July</b>. Added a page on <a href="langorg.htm">
Proto-World and the language instinct</a>, and the <a href="andalou.htm">
Chien Spinndalou</a> transcript.
<p>23 Jun. Corrected some typos and bad links in the Verdurian section.
<p>14 Jun. Added a few more <a href="frenchy.html">French comics</a>.
<p>10 Jun. Added a couple links to the <a href="lang17.html#Websites">sci.lang websites</a>, and to the <a href="lovelinx.shtml">Love & Rockets links</a>.
<p>9 Jun. <b>Metaverse for June</b>. The <a href="dfcindex.html">DFC Text
Index</a> never got a proper plug here. Most of my Metaverse work lately
has been invisible bookkeeping for the numbers list, or stuff that's
not done yet.
<p>8 Jun. Added about 15 new African languages. Removed 2 from Nilo-Saharan that didn't belong there.
<p>5 Jun. Added 'guacamole' and 'mole' to the <a href="indianwd.html">Indian
words</a>. Added a link to the <a href="kit.html">Language Construction Kit</a>.
<p>1 Jun. Added 'pawpaw', 'mahogany' to the list of <a href="indianwd.html">Indian words in English</a>.
Added or replaced (IE) Armamagadhi, Sindhi, Mayang, Chattisgarhi, Siraiki, Magahi,
(Afro-Asiatic) Tamasheq, (Dravidian) Kurukh, Tulu, Gondi, (Nilo-Saharan) Teso,
(Niger-Congo) Temne, Bete, Bubi, (Tibeto-Burman) Bodo, Tripuri, Nyi, Mikir, Lisu, Thado, Akha, Lushai, Tangkhul, (Austronesian) PAiwan, Modern Chamorro, (Creole) Nubi.
<p>28 May. Added 17 more African languages.
<p>25 May. Added a bunch of <a href="niger.htm">Niger-Congo</a> numbers: Aizi, Kposo, Wama, Naudem, Mbanja, Pinji (Pende),
Sakata (Kesha), Etulo, Lese. Also replaced a number of languages
with better sources. Added about 36 more languages the next day.
<p>21 May. Added 34 new, mostly <a href="numbers.shtml">African languages</a> to the numbers list; there are now over 4100 languages.
<p>18 May. Added a description of <a href="bara.htm">Barakhinei</a>.
<p>5 May. Added the <a href="drill0.htm">Verdurian Drilldown</a>, a series
of 10 views of Verduria from the stars on in. Reorganized <a href="virtuver.htm">Virtual Verduria</a> to match. Updated internal links in VV.
Added a <a href="dfcindex.html">text index to the DFC Archive</a>.
<p>Added a cool picture to the <a href="chemical.htm">alchemy page</a>.
<p>3 May. <b>Metaverse for May</b>. Added a review of <a href="bob25.html">Rodolphe Töpffer's comics from the 1830s</a>. Added an L&R link.
And more to come.
<p>29 Apr. Fixed some typos in the <a href="kebreni.htm">Kebreni page</a>.
Added numbers for Semaq Beri, Poong, Mpi, Ong; updated Ch'iang (Mawo).
<p>26 Apr. Updated the DFC <a href="dfcguide.shtml">Inside Guide</a> re the defunct Red Zone.
<p>23 Apr. Added a dozen or so African numbers, plus new conlangs (Speedwords, Kankonian, a corrected Loglan).
<p>18 Apr. Added about 50 more sets of <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers</a>;
also gave some examples of widely divergent transcriptions of the same language.
Added a new rant on <a href="richtax.htm">why the rich should pay more taxes</a>.
<p>15 Apr. Added a picture to the <a href="cuzeian.htm#Creation">Cuzeian theism page</a>; added a table of cognates to the <a href="kitgram.html#howtodo">Language
Construction Kit</a> now that more information on Ismaîn and Barakhinei is available.
<p>11 Apr. <b>Metaverse for April.</b> New <a href="bob24.html">Bob reviews</a>. Mentioned <a href="asimov.htm#brin">new Foundation book</a>. Added a section on <a href="ismain.htm">Ismaîn</a>.
<p>6 Apr. Fixed a typo in the <a href="bob23.html">Woodring review</a>;
updated a url in the <a href="lang17.html">sci.langFAQ</a>; mentioned
<a href="frenchy.html#konig">Ralf König's movie</a>; linked to
fellow number obsessive <a href="http://members.aol.com/nahali/fave/index.htm">Jarel Deaton's page</a>.
<p>30 Mar, 5 Apr. Updated the <a href="dfcguide.shtml">Inside Guide to the DFC</a>.
<p>22 Mar. Added a band; updated Talossan numbers; added <a href="frenchy.html#calvo">a French comic</a>. Corrected some links in the sci.lang FAQ.
<p>14 Mar. Added a mess of new <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers</a>, mostly
Australian, Indo-Pacific, Adamawan, and constructed. There are now more than <b>4000</b> languages.
Also added a few more <a href="rockers.html">band names</a>.
<p>12 Mar. Corrected a typo in the Language Construction Kit.
<p>28 Feb. <b>Metaverse for March.</b> Updated the <a href="bday.html">birthday page</a>. Added new
maps, of <a href="eretald2.gif">Eretald</a> and of <a href="fetora.gif">Verduria province</a>.
<p>16 Feb. Updated L&R stuff with the new <a href="loveroc4.html#inquiritis">Penny Century</a>. Added a ref to a <a href="amercult.html">How to Tell if you're a Texan</a> page. Added a couple more <a href="frenchy.html"> French comics</a>.
Added a nice pic to the Quechua page. Updated the <a href="dfcguide.shtml">DFC Guide</a> since we have a new editor.
<p>10 Feb. Added 22 more numbers, mostly New Guinean. Corrected Old Prussian.
There's now more than 3800 languages represented.
<p>9 Feb. Added the Verdurian <a href="embassy.htm">Ambassadorial Service</a> page.
<p>7 Feb. Added over 60 number sets, mostly from <a href="newg.htm">New Guinea</a> and <a href="aust.htm">Australia</a>, plus some <a href="last.htm">conlangs</a>-- all from Pavel Petrov's collection.
<p>5 Feb. Added about 20 more number sets, mostly Adamawa-Ubangian and Chadic.
Updated the <a href="oldnum.htm">proto-languages page</a>.
<p>3 Feb. Translated a <a href="faye.html#13">new Faye Wong song</a>.
<p>2 Feb. Added about 45 number sets, almost all <a href="same.htm">South American</a>. There
are now over 3700.
<p>29 Jan. Yammered some more <a href="braguette.htm#jan">about Clinton</a>.
<p>28 Jan. <b>Metaverse for February</b>. Added <a href="excuse.html">3 million excuses</a>, and reviews of <a href="bob23.html">Woodring</a> and <a href="bob23.html#2">Trondheim</a>
<p>22 Jan. Added 14 more <a href="same.htm">Equatorial</a> number sets, and
some new <a href="rockers.html">band names</a>. Corrected a word in the
Verdurian material.
<p>19 Jan. Added about 40 mostly South American <a href="same.htm">
numbers</a>. Added another <a href="chemical.htm">alchemical term</a>.
Added <a href="lang21.html#28">two new questions</a> to the sci.lang FAQ.
<p>17 Jan. Updated the pages on <a href="wedei.html">the Wede:i language</a>
with a map and description of the writing system.
<p>11 Jan. <b>The big move to www.zompist.com</b>. My new domain is
finally up. I moved all the files and put signposts on the tezcat
pages in hopes of luring some of the visitors there over here.
Also updated the <a href="frenchy.html">French comics page</a>.
<h3> <IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"> 1998 </h3>
<p>17 Dec. Added a couple more <a href="rockers.html">rock bands</a>
and changed a reference in the <a href="lang17.html">FAQ</a>.
<p>16 Dec. Added 20 more languages to the numbers list; replaced 14 more.
<p>9 Dec. Added a link to <a href="quechua.html">the Quechua page</a> to an on-line lexicon. Added a few more <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers</a>, bringing the total to over 3600.
<p>7 Dec. <b>Metaverse for December.</b> <a href="bob22.html">Bob's</a>: Baker, Toomey. And added to the <a href="kingdom.htm">Kingdom of Verduria</a> section: prices, schools, voting, coinage.
<p>3-6 Dec. Added a load of numbers. There's now over 3500. This is why nothing else has been added recently.
<p>23 Nov. Added about 11 languages and replaced 39 more, mostly from
a Soviet linguistics series.
<p>15 Nov. Added or replaced a bunch more numbers, including 36 artificial
languages. Now over 3400.
<p>12 Nov. Added Kumzari (IE), Khamet, Mrabri, Lawa (Mon-Khmer), Tay (Tai-Kadai), Iyaplay, Matigsalug, S Sama (Austronesian).
<p>9 Nov. I wouldn't gloat <a href="braguette.htm">about the election</a>, no sirree.
Also added numbers from Kansa (Siouan), Busa, Samo (Toma), Ngbaka, Gbaya (Niger-Congo), Saho, Xamir (Cushitic), Kanembu, Zagawa (Nilo-Saharan), and supplied missing numbers from Ometo and Xasonke. 10 Nov: and Natanzi, Gorani, and Sangisari (IE).
<p>8 Nov. Added more numbers-- Suma, Verheggen's Langue Universelle,
Idiom Neutral, Nu Teutonish, Hom-Idyomo (conlangs); Negerhollands (creole);
Mazanderani, Parachi (Indo-European), Konda (Dravidian).
Also replaced sets for Hurian, Santali, Tasmanian, Naiki, West Pahari,
Kolami, Malto, Brahui.
<p>6 Nov. Added another <a href="lovelinx.shtml">Love & Rockets link</a>.
<p>30 Oct. <b>Metaverse for November</b>. <a href="bob21.html">Bob</a> on Beanworld and Baker; <a href="asimov.htm">the rest of the Foundation books</a>; two new <a href="langfaq.html">sci.lang FAQ</a> entries; more New Guinean, Australian, and Bantu numbers (now up to 3300).
<p>23 Oct. Added more numbers (we're up to 3100), and divided up the numbers files some
more so lame browsers are happier.
<p>7 Oct. Added-- oh man, just a whole bunch of numbers. 18 Oct: Added a whole bunch more. There's now over 3000.
<p>5 Oct. Added a <a href="rockers.html">band</a>; corrected a Polish typo in the Language Kit.
<p>1 Oct. <b>Metaverse for October</b>. <a href="bob20.html">Bob</a> on Dorkin and Eat-Man; <a href="scotcult.htm">Scottish culture</a>.
<p>29 Sep. Updated the Jaime stuff based on Penny Century #3.
<p>23-29 Sep. Added about 150 <a href="numbers.shtml">numbers sets</a>. There's now over 2800 languages, roughly half of the world's living languages.
<p>18 Sep. Tossed some <a href="braguette.htm#sept">well-deserved abuse </a> at Henry Hyde.
<p>17 Sep. Added links so you can read the <a href="quotes.html">
quotes files</a> without returning home each time.
<p>13 Sep. Added 'muskrat' to <a href="indianwd.html">Indian words</a>.
Corrected ref to humanities.classics in <a href="lang1.shtml">sci.lang FAQ</a>.
<p>Added or replaced a number of Caucasian languages (Proto-Nakh, Andi,
Bagulal, Tindi, Xvarshi, Bezhta, Archi, Rutul, Tsaxur, Krytz), plus
conlangs Langue Universelle (Sotos Ochando), Leturian and Arangothian.
Also Kuvi (Dravidian), Parya (Indic), Negidal, Olcha, Orok (Tungusic).
<p>8 Sep. Added Brokstat to numbers list (Indic).
<p>29 Aug. <b>Metaverse for September.</b> New <a href=zhang.shtml">Fuschia comic</a>; <a href="lord.htm">News from Verduria</a>.
<p>27 Aug. Corrected a typo in loveroc1; noted a flaw in <a href="bob16.html#2">Akiko</a>; updated an early <a href="bob2.html">Sim review</a>.
<p>26 Aug. Added Auca (Equatorial), Michif (Pidgins), Woleai (Micronesian),
Djinang (Pama-Nyungan), Okanagan (Salishan), Havasupai, Shasta, Karok (Hokan),
Wapo (Gulf Penutian), Lamang (Chadic), Ingalik, Coquille, Kato (Na-Dené).
Updated Bhojpuri (Indic), Mumuye (Adamawa), Haka (Kuki).
There are now over 2600 languages in the list.
<p>25 Aug. Added Geoff Eddy's conlangs Breathanach, Proto-Liotan, Kadhrein, Genistien. Beautified the sources list.
<p>21 Aug. New numbers: Yasin Burushashki, Draseléq conlang;
Bajalani Kurdish; Ekajuk '1'; Grebo (Kru), Tunen (Bantu), Bassari, Bedik,
Konyagi (West Atlantic), Madi, Moru, Avukaya, Logo, Keliko (Central Sudanic), Réunion creole; Zhu|'hõasi, Proto-Central Khoisan, Hietso, ='Okoku (Khoi-san).
<p>18 Aug. Added some <a href="braguette.htm#speech">notes on Clinton's speech</a>. Corrected a typo in the Syldavian grammar; added a link to the Language Construction Kit.
<p>17 Aug. Added Andamanese languages Akar-Bale, A-Pucikwar, Oko-Jowoi to <a href="last.htm#papua">numbers list</a>. Added another L&R link.
<p>13 Aug. Added conlangs Gladilatian and Degaspregos to <a href="last.htm#conlang">the numbers list</a>; also Lengadocian (Romance). Added some bands, too.
<p>11 Aug. <a href="ranma.html">Ranma's picture</a> is now in color. Thanks, Chris.
<p>4 Aug. Corrected some typos in the <a href="beliefs.htm">Almean
religions pages</a>.
<p>1 Aug. Added a couple new <a href="frenchy.html">French comics</a>.
Also added dates so you can see when series were created.
<p>28 July. <b>Metaverse for August.</b> Added <a href="turing.html">a page on the Turing Test</a> and one <a href="house.htm">on Verdurian domestic
architecture</a>. Updated some links to make Virtual Verduria flow correctly.
<p>25 July. Updated the Bob's review of <a href="bob16.html">Seth</a> after
learning (and verifying) something interesting about Kalo.
<p>23 July. Updated the <a href="braguette.htm">Clinton scandal page</a>.
Noted on the <a href="dfcguide.shtml">DFC Guide</a> how much caption submissions are up:
800 captions used to be exceptional, now it's routine.
<p>14 July. Happy Bastille Day! Updated <a href="last.htm#conlang">Vorlin</a>in numbers list and added Jarrda.
Added about 300 new words to <a href="thematic.htm">the Verdurian Thematic Dictionary</a>.
Corrected some typos in various Bob's.
<p>9 July. Updated <a href="lang9.html#14">IAL links</a>
and linked to <a href="http://zhongwen.com/">
a great on-line Chinese dictionary</a> in the <a href="langfaq.html">sci.lang FAQ</a> and the <a href="yingzi/yingzi.htm">Yingzi page</a>.
<p>5 July. Added <i>cigar</i> to the <a href="indianwd.html">list of Amerindian words in English</a>.
<p>1 July. <b>Metaverse for July</b>. Added <a href="bob19.html">Bob's reviews</a> of Zot!
and Ghost World, and an <a href="leqr.html">editorial on progressives & fundies</a>.
<p>30 June. Added Jèrriais (Jersey) and conlangs Doraya, Nova,
Eklektu, Cispa, Sen:espera to numbers page.
<p>Added another source of BDs. Corrected a grammatical error in Kebreni.
<p>23 June. Added DiLingo, Elet Anta, Etwu, Frater (all conlangs).
Added a link to a page where you can get more info on these and others.
<p>22 June. Added Capanahua, Earth Minimal to numbers list.
Corrected Vorlin address.
Corrected a misstatement on Shintoism.
<p>20 June. Added a bunch of words to the Verdurian <a href="thematic.htm">Thematic Dictionary</a>; updated look, links.
<p>16 June. Added Brithenig to numbers list. Identified some previously mysterious Chadic languages.
<p>7 June. Noted new IADL editor, Casey, in the <a href="dfcguide.shtml">DFC guide</a>. Also corrected a dialect word in Verdurian, based on a better understanding of Ismaîn.
<p>4 June. <b>Metaverse for June</b>: new <a href="bob18.html">Bob's</a>, added this change log.
<p>Corrected a typo in Belorussian.
<p>31 May. Added the Proto-Tungus, Middle Mongolian <a href="asia.htm">numbers</a>
<p>30 May. Added some neat bits of grammar, from R.M.W. Dixon's <i>The rise and fall of languages</i>, to the <a href="kit.html">Language Construction Kit</a>; see <a href="kitgram.html#nounmorph">Case</a>, <a href="kitgram.html#verbmorph">Verbs</a>.
<p>Added some information to the <a href="sources.htm">Numbers source page</a>, based on Dixon, on which language families are well established (by application of the comparative method) and which are speculative; and mentioned Dixon's analysis of Australia as a linguistic equilibrium area.
<p>27 May. Added a couple of bands to <a href="rockers.html">Rockers.</a>
<p>25 May. Added 46 new languages to the <a href="numbers.shtml">Numbers list</a>. There are now over 2500 languages listed.
<p>16 May. Added a new question to the sci.lang FAQ: <a href="lang21.html#25">How are tone languages sung?</a>
<p>14 May. Corrected some typos in the <a href="kebreni.htm">Kebreni grammar</a> (and a few other files in Virtual Verduria).
<p>11 May. Derived <a href="syldavian.html">Syldavian</a> <i>hamaïh</i> from Antwerp Dutch.
<p>Brought the Jaime Hernandez chronology up to date with the release of <a href="loveroc4.html#1998"><i>Penny Century #2</i></a>.
<p>Added a couple artists to the <a href="frenchy.html">French comics guide</a>.
<p>3 May. <b>Metaverse for May</b>: new <a href="bday.html">birthday page</a>, <a href="robot.htm">robot story</a>.
<p>April. New numbers: Hozo, Sezo, Bambeshi (Omotic), Birale, Tsamay (E. Cushitic), Mbara (Chadic), Meidob, Mikeyir (E. Sudanic), Ngbaka (C. Sudanic), Emai (Edo), Babungo (Grassfields), Ntomba (Bantu C), Shi (Bantu J); most of Sangir-Minahasan and Mongondow-Gotontalo (Celebes), SE Tepehuan (Pimic),
Foothill N. Yokuts (California Penutian), Huanuco Quechua, Barasano (Tucanoan), Cofan (Jivaroan); most of Bora-Witoto (Macro-Carib), Hixkaryana (Carib).
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