Learn Mando'a

Tranyc actually literally means, "Star Burned." It comes from the "Tra" root, which means, "Star field," but also means, "Space, void." There is also "Ka'ra" which means "Star," but also has the implication that the stars are the spirits of ancient mando kings from old times. --- Recently was trying...

Not bad for amateur work. Could be a little more smoothly produced. While Mando culture is heavily militaristic, I'd like to see some variety from the same old war tunes and marches.

Ni shi ru'copaani bajurir ner sur'haai suvarir sur'gaan'miite, a vi nu'liniba.

While you did that, I got more work done on both songs. Neither is complete yet, but both are closing in on the final pieces. Thinking about working on We Three Kings and Rudolph the Red Nose Raindeer. The really tricky thing about all this is that there's no myths of Jesus' birth or Santa in Mandal...

currently using chrome, but I recently switched. Was originally using Firefox.

I run on Linux, Ubuntu 10.10, if that helps.

I expected the spoiler tags to collapse to save space, which was the main point. Also, it doesn't black out anything for me.

Year after year, I work on these, but normally I'm only in the mood during the holiday season. I started on "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" some time ago, but recently have discovered that "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" really lends itself to Mando'a type language. It would probably go faster if we worked...

Well, after a long absence without leave, I'm back. Can't stay away from these projects forever. Love this translating stuff too much.

Good to see we've grown some while I was gone, instead of dying out.

Okay, the pronunciation thing was totally my fault. I saw "punctuation" and read "pronunciation." Not sure how those two words got so crosswired, but I guess they do look similar. I'm sure there's a place for complex sentence structures in Mando'a. It just would probably be for more formal language ...

I just made a new one for the word, "shield." Tell me what you guys think. –noun 1. protection or shielding from hostile ground observation and flat projecting fire provided by an artificial or natural obstacle, as a hill. –verb (used with object) 2. to shield from enemy fire by using natural or art...

Ni mirdi, bic cuyi jate pirimmur Mando'a. Mhi lise hibira sur'gaan'miite vaal mhi hibira jorhaa'ir.
*sur'gaan'miite = te sur'gaane mhi pirimmu gotal'ur miite.

From what I can gather of KT's rules, Mando'a is written with an essentially phonetic alphabet. In English, a lot of letters make vastly different sounds depending on how they are used, but I think that most of Mando'a's letters are direct representations of the exact phonetic sounds. But the dictio...

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The dictionary doesn't have a word for "to fire," so you're not stupid. But tra'cyar mav literally means, "fire free," so I wouldn't consider this so much an added word so much as an implied canon word.

The technical terms you're looking for are "Syntax" and "Diction." There are languages in the world for which the grammar is Syntax based, which means that the word order determines the meaning of the sentence. The other languages (there might be more kinds, but I haven't heard of any) are Diction b...

Trikar, Ni nu'haa'tayli birov be birov'miite be Ka'ra Akaane. Ni nu'ru'gana ca'nara par val.

Tion gar lise* mar'eyi sur'gaan be Walon Vau bal/ra kaysh ti kaysh kad?

*Tion gar lise ra Tion lise gar? Tion'solus cuyi serim?

Kad Vau? Vau cuyi Mando'ad? Ni naka'mir Vau. Ni nu'lise sirbu.

Okay, I switched back to prosilver and it works now, though I thought I had it on prosilver when I first had trouble seeing the font. To answer some of your questions anyway, I'm pretty sure this is no beta version. I click " H elp" > " A bout Mozilla Firefox" and the dialog box that pops up tells m...

If we could translate the Bible, we would have practically the ultimate standard by which we could translate just about ANYTHING. There is SO much study into this that completion of the Mando'a Bible would fix practically EVERY problem Mando'a currently has. Of course, it would also take years to co...

I'm pretty sure that there is no universal banner. You'd have to change the banner setting inside every imageset, I believe. I kinda feel the same way with blackbox as you do with sprites. I think we'll have to do major overhauls on just about any skin we use. From what Amorg has said, it seems like...

I agree on Sprites, it's quite nice, but I was unsure of how I would modify it, especially since the static graphics and the animations are in blue. Colorizing the static stuff should be easy, but colorizing the animations may prove to take time. Though that's not necessarily a bad thing; we could ...