Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Feb 23 2020, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 564
Views: 308,460
Re: Your Pern Movie Cast
Watching the new Picard series, I think that Peyton List would be a passible Avril Bitra should they show any scenes from Dragonsdawn.
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Forum: Games and Miscellany
Feb 22 2018, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 937
Views: 88,455
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 22 2017, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,849
Except for two erupting volcanoes...
I have easy access to two audiobooks that I've been listening to a lot, Dragonsdawn and All the Weyrs of Pern. In All the Weyrs, it is often asked why the Colonists didn't use their technology to...
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 2 2017, 02:06 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,335,661
Re: What is happening
Just thought I'd chime in. I've begun apprenticing in Master Jerint's workshop. Well, more precisely I'm apprenticing in a music store to learn how to repair violins, violas, cellos and bases that...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 1 2017, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,996
Re: Verse of Pern
From the website of the musicians:
Lyrics from the CD Masterharper of Pern:
http://www.opland-freeman.com/harperhall/mhlyr.htm
Lyrics from the CD Sunset's Gold:...
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Forum: Games and Miscellany
Jan 4 2017, 06:14 PM
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Replies: 937
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 12 2016, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 308
Views: 142,852
Re: Pernese versus Terran terms
Thank you! This is the best thought I've ever seen that explains the mysterious word. Is the name of the miner recorded, or is this just a supposition?
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 15 2016, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 25,391
Re: Printer Hall
New Zealand flax sounds ideal! I can imagine plantations of it in the Southern continent.
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 15 2016, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 25,391
Re: Printer Hall
I'm glad to hear that, but sorry to say I missed it. Time for a reread!
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 14 2016, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 25,391
Re: Printer Hall
Whenever paper making was being discussed in the Pern books I kept thinking it would perhaps be more efficient if some hemp-like plant could be used for paper making. Trees take a long time to grow...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Dec 11 2015, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 9,567
Re: What Would Happen...
I come from a printing background. I've never been comfortable with the sort of printing press AIVAS was describing. He said that it would require rolls of paper, but that would be something along...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Nov 13 2015, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
Re: Real World Harper Songs
I was also very pleased to find a pretty good song for Guy Fawkes Day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkkgX1l4nkc), a phenomenon I was unaware of until recently.
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Nov 13 2015, 09:46 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
Re: Real World Harper Songs
As might be expected, I'm still finding/collecting songs appropriate to teaching. A bunch of teachers, apparently in the U.S. have put up songs on YouTube to help their students remember subjects...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Aug 25 2015, 02:42 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
Re: 'Wherry' in other language translations
Getting back to the title of this thread, I found an even better candidate for a Esperanto term for 'wherry'. It's a mythical creature, somewhat draconic, but with a rooster's head, so it could be...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jul 2 2015, 08:49 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jul 1 2015, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
Re: 'Wherry' in other language translations
I tried that route, unfortunately while the English language has this fine stock of obscure names for many things. in esperanto a wherry is simply a boat (boato) which is an everyday word. I even...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jul 1 2015, 04:48 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
Re: 'Wherry' in other language translations
Hans, 'gardvirmo' would be a word specifically for the watchwhers. Generally the animal would be called just a virmo.
I haven't read much of Todd's stuff. Any idea why the colonists started...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jun 30 2015, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
Re: 'Wherry' in other language translations
For wher I found an alternate term for a european dragon, wyrm. transliterated into Esperanto it becomes virmo. Since they are mostly used as watchwhers I'd augment that to gardvirmo.
Naming...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 30 2015, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 18,072
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 26 2015, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 18,072
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 26 2015, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 18,072
What If: Jaxom Warns the Colonists
This thought keeps occurring to me, so I thought I'd throw it out there for fun. First of all I know that this could never happen because time travel in the Pern universe just doesn't work that way. ...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jun 19 2015, 10:02 PM
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Replies: 4
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Re: Dragon name generator
A friend of mine made something similar to help us create words for alien languages. We had to input sample words which the program would chop up, put back together and spit back out as a list. ...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 18 2015, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,863
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 17 2015, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 13,719
Re: Pern in 500 years
Just to be clear, when I suggest the Pernese could have electricity, I'm not proposing they would have a continent-wide grid set up like us on Earth. It wasn't that long ago, even in the U.S. that...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 15 2015, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 25
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Re: Pern in 500 years
The dragon population would certainly decrease, but I think they would provide a service to the Holds that would make them worth 'paying' to keep around. They'll still be the 'astronauts' of their...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 15 2015, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 13,719
Re: Pern in 500 years
That's pretty much the way was thinking. Electronics, or at least integrated circuit electronics just aren't going to be sustainable. Once you get into the Industrial Revolution, the pollution...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 12 2015, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 13,719
Re: Pern in 500 years
I hadn't considered the idea of asteroid captures by dragons. There's a company now that is thinking along those lines. The asteroid would be brought back and put into orbit around the moon.
I...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 11 2015, 12:18 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 13,719
Pern in 500 years
Sometimes I like to think about what Hold, Hall and Weyr would be like 500 years after the ninth Pass. In 500 years would the technology found at Landing still function?
It's fine to believe all...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 3 2015, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 3,652
Views: 719,396
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 11 2015, 03:03 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 10,302
Re: Female green riders
Using Google, i found something here (http://www.annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-422.html).
The pertinent quote:
'Danegga, rider of Ptath (mentioned only once, in Skies.)'
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
May 6 2015, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
Re: 'Wherry' in other language translations
Trying to puzzle this out on my own, I've come up with two possibilities.
The E.E.C. team could have noted the similarities between a wherry and a griffon and named it a griffon instead. It works...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
May 5 2015, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,258
Re: 'Harper' in other language translations
Firstly, I'd like to thank those of you who responded to this thread.
Secondly, I want to sincerely apologize for not replying sooner. Even though I was subscribed to this thread the whole time,...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
May 5 2015, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,869
'Wherry' in other language translations
Some of you know that I have a hobby of translating bits of the Dragonrider books into Esperanto. I've come across a sticking point with the word 'wherry'.
'Wherry' is a somewhat (to me) obscure...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 1 2015, 06:52 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,002
Re: In Dragonsdawn, What Exactly was a Sled?
hat's now pretty much the way I'm figuring it. Sleds are like work vehicles that fly and evidently take off and land vertically. There are also 'skimmers' mentioned which, based on what they are...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 29 2015, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,002
Re: In Dragonsdawn, What Exactly was a Sled?
I'm sure that's what the cover artist intended. I was listening to Dragonsdawn today and apparently there is another flying vehicle called a skimmer. Aargh! I wonder if that's supposed to some kind...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 28 2015, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
Re: Real World Harper Songs
Somebody went and done it and it's fabulous!
Ballad of Apollo XIII Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lCfq1xUFM)
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 28 2015, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,002
Re: In Dragonsdawn, What Exactly was a Sled?
It's interesting that Hans has 'airsled' listed as an alternate name on his website. I got the answer I was looking for. I found a fellow Esperanto speaker who's read Anne's books. He suggested...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 27 2015, 07:58 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,002
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 27 2015, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,002
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 27 2015, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,002
In Dragonsdawn, What Exactly was a Sled?
For my own enjoyment I've been translating a chapter of Dragonsdawn into Esperanto. The problem I'm having is working out a term for 'Sled'. To me they sound much like a flying car. They fly, they...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jan 6 2015, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 247
Views: 65,118
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jan 6 2015, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 247
Views: 65,118
Re: A little Pernese humor
When I see 'FAX GLOBAL' on our telephone's caller ID and I think of that usurper instead of some faceless telemarketing firm.
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Forum: Café Archives
Dec 28 2014, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 27
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Sep 17 2014, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 247
Views: 65,118
Re: A little Pernese humor
I still think of my wife as a Harper. She's a general music teacher in an Elementary school. She tries to include historical context to her lessons, I.E. What was going on in the world when...
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Forum: Book Collector's Meeting Room
Jun 18 2014, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,258
'Harper' in other language translations
One of my hobbies is to translate short parts of books I'm reading into Esperanto. It's good for the mind and my language ability. One thing I'm really stuck on is how to translate 'Harper'. A...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 6 2014, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 10 2014, 08:21 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
Real World Harper Songs: Expanded Playlist
I've continued compiling the playlist on YouTube of what I call Real World Harper songs. The original playlist got full, so I had to start a second one. Here are the links:
Real World Harper...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 10 2014, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
Re: Real World Harper Songs
Gotta be one of the best modern teaching ballads around. Thanks for pointing me to a better version than I previously had.
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 4 2013, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
Re: Real World Harper Songs
I agree with all your sentiments, but inspirational songs are not teaching ballads about historical events.
I've just finished a book about one of the railroads that served Sussex County, NJ. I...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 4 2013, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 41,332
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