Hi, folks. I'm sorry that my first post on this wonderful forum must be such a downer, but... Well, where to begin... I am a HUGE fan of hard sci-fi, so you...
In a message dated 6/3/2005 4:57:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, macunaima30@... writes: The idea that Brazilians will someday create a highly rational ...
... Cool. :) ... Yep - we're well aware it's Portugese, and had a professional Portugese linguist on tap - Leslie Karlik's mother, I believe. Note that Sonia...
AT 03:56 PM 03-06-05, macunaima30 wrote: Leaving aside that which has already been answered that I can see... ... I doubt this will be changed. How would you...
... So given that, how did "novo" - which is a pretty basic word - become "nuevo"? Not to mention all the other hispanisms. ... Yes, of course. That sentance...
... of ... century or ... Why? What party did Getulio Vargas belong to? Hell, even I'd have to look it up. But even a small encyclopedia entry would tell you...
So how big is "considerable"? and what's the market like for other genres? in particular AV:T seems to me the best way to get your changes may be to show that...
I spent five fairly formative years in Brazil, so I always like to look out for "Brazilians in space" backgrounds too. I think you'll find the portions of this...
... lines. ... No, but it's just plain silly that we call Germans Germans, too. If we called them Deutsch, like they call themselves, then the relationship...
... I would point out that we aren't talking about Brazil changing in this way, but rather a tiny frontier colony founded by Brazil, in a rather high-stress...
An (American) English speaker learning German will probably think they have the same alphabet, with the exception of a letter or two. This is not quite...
... The answer to this is as obvious as it is uncommonly practised. Write the foreign words _like they sound_ . This avoids idiocies like the Welsh and Gaelic...
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However, I think we can agree that there are certain longue dureé patterns in given cultures. "Rationally planned society" just ain't one of them in Brazil -...
... Does this mean you're volunteering to create and describe the rationale and events that led from 20th Century Brazil to the current situation on Novo ...
... Liberia was founded by a splinter of an American sub-culture and said splinter was always in the human minority. From what I can see, NB was a highly...
... speculation is all there is. While the movie "Brazil" is just that, a movie, there is also "The Boys from Brazil" and the rampant speculation that many...
What the hell. It'd be fun. The problem, however, is that I'm writing my doctorate, so I don't have much free time. But sure, I'm game. Another problem,...
On second thought, what I'd most like to do is create a few color pieces showing what's "really" going on in NB. The braintapiong thing sounds to me like one...
... Let me also point out that NB wasn't a case where the Brazilians sort of let a colony grow. Instead there is good reason to believe it was intended to be...
... I ... below. ... the ... In the factbook, the planet is the Federative Republic of Novo Brasil. On the MAP it's Novo Brasil. As to the Hispaniasims: Over...
... thing ... at ... ballyhooing to ... wit, ... Some things for you that you're apparently missing. 1) All contact with Earth was lost in 2214. This is,...
... <macunaima30@y...> wrote: <snip> ... who've ... why ... cultural ... case, I ... colony ... to ... Well, at this point in time, that about sums up the New...
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:35:35PM -0400, Klebert L. Hall distributed foul capitalist propaganda: [... ... However, English writing system does not have the...
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