Hello everyone!
     Where can I download the first (and others too) McGuffey Reader? I
lost my e-mails, so I can't find the message that could answer this
question (I remember this topic was discuted many times here).
     Another question: I have serious problems about the "sound" of my
language. I have a grammar that I'm satisfied with, but I have already
tried many and many phonetics rules and sounds. My language (laman
language) have been similar to the astec, slavic, latin, tupi. I have
even tried inumerous ways to form words (stupid ones, sometimes). And I
never get satisfied... anyone had already the same problems? And how did
you manage this?

Carsten Becker escreveu:

> Hey!
>
> So I downloaded the first McGuffey Reader and skimmed a bit
> through it. What gave me headache is that there are
> frequently mentioned everyday animals. Since the Ayeri are
> supposed to live on another planet, there are of course no
> dogs, cats, duck(ling)s and such per se. But I don't know
> enough about Biology and I can't draw well enough to make
> up own animals of the respective kinds. Should I simply
> make up words for these animals then? Should I mangle their
> Latin name or their German or their English name? Supposing
> American astronauts (Of course Americans! Who else?!)
> landed on Areca, and then even in the vast equatorial
> forests of the continent Cataya[1], managing to make their
> way through all the L.A.N to Airon Nuavirang ... It's
> fairly uncertain that in a short time, everyone on that big
> planet (120% Earth's size!) would know all the animals
> common on Earth ... And supposing that Areca is in a
> completely different corner of the universe, the
> probability to get there during the next 50 years or so is
> incredibly small, except they really find a way to let
> sci-fi stuff (e.g. travelling at lightspeed/through
> wormholes [black holes]) come true, what I strongly doubt.
> I guess I should really make up names for animals and say
> that they're quite similar to ours. What did you others do
> in this case?
>
> Thanks,
> Carsten
>
>
> [1] I recently made up names for some of the continents of a
> map of Areca I drew "pre-last" summer. -- At least my
> drawing skills are good enough to hand-draw a map. But
> better don't ask me to reproduce parts of it by hand. Even
> with checkered paper this is a hard job for me.
>
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> emino 15-A8!
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