Canadian rising is not that interesting in itself... it's just this phonological phenomenon that took me a few minutes to even be able to hear, and I still can't describe it, and it's these sort of things that I learn about linguistics that make it seems absurdly complex to me. fascinating, but a bit much for me.

Interlingua is awesome. And Esperanto is pretty exciting too. Invented languages are really interesting. Were the french present in indonesia? there's an observable french influence on vietnamese...

I dunno about Skandar being Edmund irl, I imagine Edmund is a bit more serious about things? while Skandar is a total goofball. But yeah, he'd totally get picked up by Jadis or the Lady of the Green Kirtle or some bewitching archetype. What would happen to Dead Narnia that they could possibly rule it? Does a dead world ever grow again? Does it go in cycles, like an expanding and contracting universe? Does it take the arrival of some new god in the darkness?