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Hi! Peter wrote: > Well, first and foremost, Henrik, I do hope you don't mind me having > used the name and that you would be gracious in letting me continue > to use it. Of course you may use the name, it's all in the public domain :-) BTW, this is a joint project of a friend of mine (who uses the pseudonym Bjï¿œrn Markus on that page) and myself -- he does the conhistory, and I do the linguistics. It's a lot of fun! >... > (If I ever decide to lay down some conculture it may well be, should > the Hapsburgs leave the scene, that the first President of the > Reanan Republic has a name not too dissimilar to yours.) Wow! Too much honour! > Finally, yes, of course I read it! I told you it was > lovely. Those I-umlauts are a bitch though, huh? > Certainly causing me a headache here, further south. I-umlauts, u-umlauts, a-umlauts. Of course, the i-umlaut is short for i-umlaut, j-umlaut, R-umlaut and combinatorial palatal umlaut and u-umlaut is short for u-umlaut and w-umlaut. And they happen early and/or late and/or in between, etc. Headache? Yes. The worst thing is: however irregular my noun and verb paradigms become by all the sound shifts, they will never kick ass like the real Icelandic ones. :-) The ï¿œrjï¿œtrun project is very inspiring for me. > I just find the idea of Romans in Iceland so amusing. I can see > them all shivering in woolly togas, after they get out of geothermal > baths, wondering what they did wrong to get posted so far north! Haha! And how angry they get because their vines just don't grow well. **Henrik