... Well of course! If it actually made some sense, there's no way the board of trustees would allow the university to grant lit. degrees! ;) Padraic. ... Et...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Oct 1, 2005 1:58 pm
... Do you mean specìfically no "ay" and no "nay"? Or absolutely no way at all to either agree or disagree with a statement? If the latter, it would be...
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spad0103
Oct 1, 2005 6:02 pm
... How is this page used? Is it used in IB to condemn people for their cultural alignments? I don't understand it very well......
24702
Daniel Hicken
bo_arthur
Oct 1, 2005 6:09 pm
... <snip!> ... Why does this vaguely remind me of Terry Pratchett's Audiors and Douglas Adam's Philosophers voicing their objections before Deep Thought "We...
24703
habarakhe4
Oct 1, 2005 6:12 pm
... There is no "aye" or "nay". For our perspective, every pronoun has a positive and a negative form (po she vs. bo not-sh, no he vs. ro not- he), as does...
24704
Jefferson Wilson
jeff_wilson63
Oct 1, 2005 7:29 pm
... First of all, it has nothing to with IB. (Though it would be possible to use it with that world.) It's intended to be descriptive, not prescriptive. By...
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Keith Gaughan
KeithGaughan
Oct 1, 2005 7:29 pm
... Not really. Think of it more as part of a culture cookbook. The axes represent various traits and stereotypes cultures may adhere to. From the chart, one...
24706
Daniel Hicken
bo_arthur
Oct 1, 2005 7:51 pm
... I would say, then that this is somewhat an extrapolation of the "Duck-Speak" principle. There is good and ungood, with plus and double-plus to imply...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Oct 1, 2005 11:39 pm
... I see -- so, it's not that there's no negation or affirmation, it's that negation and affirmation are integral to things: (ay)cat v. (no)gat; (ay)tog v....
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Oct 1, 2005 11:42 pm
... You could probably also asign numeric scores and Real World equivalents, like "Your Culture scored 23 -- they might be similar to the Exxians". Padraic. Et...
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Jefferson Wilson
jeff_wilson63
Oct 2, 2005 12:10 am
On May 29th, 2180 the asteroid appeared in Earth's orbit. Some five miles long and three miles wide and deep none of the observatories in the system, manned or...
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habarakhe4
Oct 2, 2005 1:00 am
The Company of Heroes in FI in the 1940's included: The Skraeling Streak – an Inuktitut speedster from the Antillean Nordenbund. An impulsive character, he...
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Herman Miller
teamousechan...
Oct 2, 2005 4:56 am
... According to your descriptions, they refer to planning for the future and paying debts. What I'm looking for is more of a difference in lifestyle --...
24712
habarakhe4
Oct 2, 2005 4:58 am
Sept 7 BIALYMIASTO, ZPM, Republic of the Three Colonies (RTK) – Severyna Witoldowa Jakubowska, the Minister of Education of ZPM, has declared that it is...
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Kristian Jensen
boreanesia
Oct 2, 2005 7:35 am
... From: "spad0103"; <spad0103@...> To: <conculture@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 11:19 AM Subject: [conculture] Re: Cultural...
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Kristian Jensen
boreanesia
Oct 2, 2005 7:40 am
... From: "habarakhe4" <Anthony.Miles@...> To: <conculture@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:59 AM Subject: [conculture] Superheroes...
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Nik Taylor
niktaylor42
Oct 2, 2005 8:43 am
... Seems to me they'd just use "true" and "not true" to answer questions, or perhaps repeating the verb or using the negative version of said verb....
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spad0103
Oct 2, 2005 8:54 am
... <jeffwilson63@f...> ... Thanks for your answers, it's very interesting! I believed that it was all about IB......
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spad0103
Oct 2, 2005 9:06 am
I'm a belgian french speaker (from Walloonia) and I can't find where could be my land in IB, I don't know if it's in France, where the French is spoken but not...
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Wesley Parish
hounihanerewhon
Oct 2, 2005 9:58 am
And the goals of the aliens are what? lebensraum? "Earth Girls Are Easy"? A desire to raid Texan oilfields and the oily oilmen's wives? Fear of coming under...
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Jan van Steenbergen
ijzeren_jan
Oct 2, 2005 11:28 am
... Wallonia is indeed part of Francie. Whether as a province or some kind of department, I don't know. The Batavian Kingdom includes the Netherlands,...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Oct 2, 2005 1:55 pm
... By way of explanation, "Francie" is the northern half of "France" (while "Gaulhe" comprises the southern half). The northern half officially speaks...
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Keith Gaughan
KeithGaughan
Oct 2, 2005 6:58 pm
... If anything, they ought to both be called and Rosamund Ní Iósep Pádraig Mac/Ui Cinneide and Úna Ní Aodha Mac/Ui Gadhra, depending on the relationship...
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Keith Gaughan
KeithGaughan
Oct 2, 2005 6:58 pm
... Tír na n-Ógh? What's with that stray 'h'? What differences are there between Gaelic in FI and *here*? K....
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habarakhe4
Oct 2, 2005 9:39 pm
... 'Tis the Land of Virgins (h+), not the Land of Youth (h -). m'lad. Banbha's creators didn't want to use the aitch-less name for an all-female place they...
24724
habarakhe4
Oct 2, 2005 9:40 pm
... My point is subtle, possibly hair splitting. The point is that the islanders would not see "true" and "not true" (positive and negative), but "true" and...
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conculture@yahoogroup...
Oct 2, 2005 10:14 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the conculture group. File : /FI/Heroes...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Oct 3, 2005 3:49 am
... Too bad it's not Tir na n-Ógg, Land of Kitchen Wise Witches! ... That might be almost as bad as *here*'s situation -- Gaelic with an English orthogrpahy! ...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Oct 3, 2005 3:54 am
... Exactly -- they're seen as two ways an object can be. Like if we see a toy car on its back and another on its wheels. We don't think about "up" or "down"...
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David
zahir13
Oct 3, 2005 7:18 am
Has anything in IB been established about the life of Frederick Douglas? Zahir...
