13:50 Oct 10, 2010 

Thank you for your reply and sorry if my tone offended you. I am not angry with you. :)

06:46 Oct 10, 2010 

of course I read these comments and they are really valuable. However, landsmen was not such a problem, I had quite a few ideas on those. But to give you more of an idea. Landsmen are people like us, but the story is set in Elizabethan England and is rife with power struggles. In this book the deepsmen (seadwellers with webbed limbs, tails and a very reduced language) have bred with landsmen, and these crossbreeds have become the ruling caste. There has been much inbreeding with the usual handicaps, but the eligible samples have two legs, which are supple, because there are vertebrae instead of bones, sometimes luminescent skin and usually webbed limbs. Swimming is their natural way of moving around, on land they move awkwardly with the help of canes.
Still angry with me?
Kind regards
Irene

04:23 Oct 10, 2010 

I think you need both terms (you say you are collecting ideas) and you probably assume that we're giving you both (it seems that way now for the most part) because they have to fit (one depends on the other), sort of, although deepsmen and landsmen aren't really direct opposites and not necessarily easily or logically chosen terms. If you need both, there should have been a separate question for landsmen or landsmen should have been officially included here in your question (possibly within a sentence where both terms occur) or your ideas (preferences) for landsmen should be evident.
Also, it would be nice to know if these landsmen are regular people like us or if they have certain other idiosyncracies (comparable to the webbed limbs of the deepsmen/seadwellers). Do these seadwellers also "walk" on the ocean floor, do they look like humans, etc. ?
It would also be good to know if you do read these comments at all.

20:46 Oct 9, 2010 

Na ja, ist eher ein bisschen spaßig gemeint, aber nur ein bisschen, denn immerhin gibt es die Gründeln o. Grundeln, die am Grunde des Meeres leben und dort ... gründeln -- was auch sonst :-]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundeln

02:42 Oct 9, 2010 

did you already think of something for landsmen?