simsanta123
Club Cricketer
Pretty pleased to get my first badge. (though it is for shortest life-span 
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Check out the brand-new Nayrbja Factbook! Any comments?
I call your attention in particular to the reference to cricket in (where else?) the 'Religion' section (under People & Population).
I call your attention in particular to the reference to cricket in (where else?) the 'Religion' section (under People & Population).
Papa_Smurf
International Cricketer
15th on PC for dummest citizens. Must be for letting me run the country in the manner I am ----------
Is the language Narybjan based on any real language, or are you just spouting out jibberish?
Themer
Chairman of Selectors
Numero 1.
After my Welfare structure Education is the biggest slice of the budget. Oh and after the cost of Administration, god damn Bureaucracy.
After my Welfare structure Education is the biggest slice of the budget. Oh and after the cost of Administration, god damn Bureaucracy.
Is the language Narybjan based on any real language, or are you just spouting out jibberish?
Bet you wouldn't say that to a Klingon!
Real languages don't exist, and kind of lack scope for imagination anyway.The Nayrbjan language developed long before we had any contact with planet Earth, so naturally it is unrelated to Terran languages. Although, if you look carefully, some of the words appear to be related to the Indo-Aryan superfamily of Eurasian languages. For example, "z'talk'" for starry is quite similar to the Latin "stella" for star. Pure coincidence... Or is it???
Indimerica and Lonestaristan have ceased to exist (CTEd), although they can always be revived of course. Wagalamas is headed the same way within 24 hours, and Sylvanian Freedonians not long after that. And if that happens, we'll be one of those founderless regions you've heard so many horror stories about...
Varun
ICC Board Member
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2009
- Location
- Delhi, India
- Online Cricket Games Owned
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - Steam PC
Ah, we're purging nations out. Secretly.
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The game does the 'purging', not the players. If you don't visit your nation for 28 days, it vanishes. You can get it back, but until you do, it doesn't exist.
Varun
ICC Board Member
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2009
- Location
- Delhi, India
- Online Cricket Games Owned
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - Steam PC
I know that lol.
Papa_Smurf
International Cricketer
Bet you wouldn't say that to a Klingon!
The Nayrbjan language developed long before we had any contact with planet Earth, so naturally it is unrelated to Terran languages. Although, if you look carefully, some of the words appear to be related to the Indo-Aryan superfamily of Eurasian languages. For example, "z'talk'" for starry is quite similar to the Latin "stella" for star. Pure coincidence... Or is it???
Indimerica and Lonestaristan have ceased to exist (CTEd), although they can always be revived of course. Wagalamas is headed the same way within 24 hours, and Sylvanian Freedonians not long after that. And if that happens, we'll be one of those founderless regions you've heard so many horror stories about...
Lol, how are "z'talk" and "stella" similar?
Lol, how are "z'talk" and "stella" similar?
Firstly, it's "z'talk'" not "z'talk"!
"'" is a vowel in Nayrbjan, so "television" would be spelt "tel'vij'n", and "Metallica" would be "M'talik'"! "Z'talk'" is pronounced "zuh-TAL-kuh"... Nayrbjan spelling is phonetic.'Z' and 's' are fairly interchangeable. Where Spanish (an Indo-Aryan language) uses 'z', Portuguese (closely related) uses 's' (eg. Rodriguez/Rodrigues).
So you have the 'same' three consonants - s/z, t, l - in the same order. Latin has a '-ica' suffix, although it doesn't have a word 'stellica'. Maybe Romanian, having both Romance (Latin) and Slavonic elements, does. Maybe Greek does - or Sanskrit (all related...). Anyway it is conceivable that this sequence of consonants could form a word for 'starry' in a language of the Indo-Aryan family. Vowels don't hugely matter to whether words are related.
Really glad you asked, btw (could you tell?).
We're back down to 16 nations now (in the region) and founderless with the demise of Sylvanian Freedonians. Is anyone else planning on joining up? I'd really like to get to 20 if possible. That would mean two awards a day (5% & 10%) instead of one.
I'm now a "Left-leaning College State", which is the best category I've ever been in. My indicators read "Superb, Good, Good" so they're all under control for the first time in quite a while.
But I would like to get the average tax rate down if possible (from 54%). And the preventable death rate (heart disease + murder) down from 44%.
But I would like to get the average tax rate down if possible (from 54%). And the preventable death rate (heart disease + murder) down from 44%.
Papa_Smurf
International Cricketer
I'm running a hell-hole. I tried to apply the same political system and values of Smurf Village to Smurfianity and ended up as psychotic dictatorship. Hardly any civil rights, no political freedom whatsovever and the economy has gone down the drain. Come visit us!
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You seem to have a lot of knowledge about languages. Have you studied Latin and Greek by any chance?
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Firstly, it's "z'talk'" not "z'talk"!
'Z' and 's' are fairly interchangeable. Where Spanish (an Indo-Aryan language) uses 'z', Portuguese (closely related) uses 's' (eg. Rodriguez/Rodrigues).
So you have the 'same' three consonants - s/z, t, l - in the same order. Latin has a '-ica' suffix, although it doesn't have a word 'stellica'. Maybe Romanian, having both Romance (Latin) and Slavonic elements, does. Maybe Greek does - or Sanskrit (all related...). Anyway it is conceivable that this sequence of consonants could form a word for 'starry' in a language of the Indo-Aryan family. Vowels don't hugely matter to whether words are related.
Really glad you asked, btw (could you tell?).
You seem to have a lot of knowledge about languages. Have you studied Latin and Greek by any chance?
Without wishing to get too off-topic, I (only) did Latin and French at school. But I have a huge interest in languages, dialects, linguistics and phonetics, so I've picked up a fair bit esp. about the Indo-Aryan family (which links nearly every language, modern and ancient, from Irish and Icelandic to Hindi).
