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Re: Sinitic/SE Asian inspired Phonology
m n ɲ ŋ <m n nh ng> p b t d k g <p b t d k g> ɸ s ɕ x h <f s sh kh h> tɕ <ch> r <r> β̞ ɻ j w <v r y w> l <l> Vowels: i ɯ ə ɛ ʌ a <i u ea e o a> Diphtongs: ai <ai> Tones (using [a] to represent the orthog): ˥ ˧ ˩ ˧˩ ˧˥ ˥˧˦ ˩˧˨ <ä a ā à á ǎ â> Phonotactics: (C)(C)V(C) The second consonant can only be...
- 27 Aug 2013 03:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Linguistic "Punctuated Equilibrium"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1665
Re: Linguistic "Punctuated Equilibrium"
What is "SC"? O.o Also, I know there is a lot of criticism of Dixon, hence why I put the bit on glottochronology in there, as to me it seems a bit like glottochronology in some aspects. But I don't think my original query has been addressed adequately. First, while languages change, the ra...
- 21 Aug 2013 08:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Linguistic "Punctuated Equilibrium"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1665
Linguistic "Punctuated Equilibrium"
RMW Dixon is notable for having offered a theory of punctuated equilibrium for linguistics, similar in vein to the theory in evolutionary biology offered by Gould. The basic premise is that languages tend to remain constant and relatively unchanged throughout time, and that it is contact with other ...
- 20 Aug 2013 19:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kōre (previous title:my conlang's phonology)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2590
Re: My conlang's phonology
Heyyyyyooooo Your conlang phonology, on face value is quite interesting. I can't recall a language that has a phonemic inventory quite like that. This, of course, is a good thing, a little victory for originality. I have a couple of observations. 1) I see you have phonemic epiglottalized sibilants, ...
- 19 Feb 2013 20:08
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 460
- Views: 203240
Re: Jokes
a spanish pun, which should be told with much more pomp but that essentially boils down to: El acto principal del circo esa noche era un pan dotado de la capacidad de hablar: llegado el momento del acto central sale al escenario un hombre con una hogaza de pan en una mano y un balde de agua en la o...
- 19 Feb 2013 19:51
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 460
- Views: 203240
Re: Jokes
A menos que seas Castellano, como mí. Pues haga lo pronunciar “eh-so see kay eesh” como mí. El gran retardo. ¡Jajajaja!XXXVII wrote:Also: eS Oh Cee Kay eSol bofosh wrote:¡Eso sí que es! = Yes, that's it!
- 19 Feb 2013 19:36
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
I've written about this before, and i'm not going to go into all the details right now, but here's my basic thoughts. First, divide aliens into Weirdo Aliens and Understandable Aliens. The former category are things that have evolved in radically different environments from us, maybe even things we...
- 19 Feb 2013 19:21
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
You assume that any intelligent life will become so in the same or similar manner as human beings. Mmmmm. I dunno if I'm committed to that. Elephants, Octopuses (octopi, octopodes??), Wolves, Ravens, etc. are pretty smart, but I would bet money against first contact being with a species of space el...
- 19 Feb 2013 19:12
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
LoL!Lambuzhao wrote:@ CarpeMors
Did you take....AND PASS O-chem?
God bless you!
You're braver than I thought.
I borrowed a friend's o-chem intro book, and used my college's library. So, I didn't have a class per se, but it was still a headache trying to teach myself the subject. :P
- 15 Feb 2013 21:26
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
Hey all I actually have a note pad treatment on this subject that I've been working on (yeah, I'm old school...I refuse to keep buying MS word licenses). I'm going to try and clean it up a bit and post it as a reply here, if that's ok with the mods, unless they want it as a split topic. I'll try to ...
- 15 Feb 2013 21:20
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
[+1] Micamo Apart from sentience, I was reading about "shadow life" recently. According to the theory, we would not have to look too far for "alien" life. The theory states that non-DNA based/inorganic life could very well exist somewhere here on earth. This shadow life evolved ...
- 15 Feb 2013 21:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
Depends on what you mean by "sentience." Really, our own brand of intelligence evolved due to a very specific set of selection pressures; The same selection pressures that shaped our physical form, mating structure, and material culture. Change the relevant selection pressures even slight...
- 15 Feb 2013 21:11
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
Welcome back, CarpeMors! Wow, what a topic! Really, I am quite split on this topic. I see the logic behind a convergent evolutive approach to extraterrestrial (sentient) life. If different life forms converge here to fill similar niches, why wouldn't sentience come about in similar packaging ( not ...
- 15 Feb 2013 21:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
The author assumes that a land animal is being talked about. The human body is also nowhere near a universally convenient form for sentient creatures. For example, we don't really have such a good balance due to using 2 of ours appendages as tool-manipulating things. Something with more leg-type ap...
- 15 Feb 2013 21:06
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
Consider you had to realize a SF TV-series in the 1960ies: no rendering farms, limited budgeds. So, if you want aliens, you end up with human-like aliens or with cloud-like beings or just some sort of supercomputer. Or, with a film mostly focussing on humans if there are non-humen species, and not ...
- 15 Feb 2013 20:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
Re: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
The author assumes that a land animal is being talked about. The human body is also nowhere near a universally convenient form for sentient creatures. For example, we don't really have such a good balance due to using 2 of ours appendages as tool-manipulating things. Something with more leg-type ap...
- 14 Feb 2013 21:58
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6562
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION the Pro's and Con's
Hey Ya'll I haven't been on the board for a while, life's been a bitch. But!--I'm back now at least. I'm still working on my conworld, and still working on biology in particular... So, with that being said, I wanted to start a debate about the topic of convergent evolution. This is because, within t...
- 14 Feb 2013 21:37
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Micamo's Guide to Magic!
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12095
Re: Micamo's Guide to Magic!
This is overall pretty interesting... I do wonder, though, if it would actually work better if you split your observations into a sort of quasi-fantasy and quasi-sci-fi bit, Micamo. This is because when it comes to fantasy/sci-fi there's a lot that *cannot* ever be explained, such as the nature of m...
- 12 Oct 2012 22:25
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Habitable Moons
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1916
Habitable Moons
This is something for the more science and physics inclined among us: I'm trying to create a very very scientifically accurate (as much as can be understood now) habitable moon. The conditions are generally earthlike in temperature and chemical composition , although there is less water (probably st...
- 07 Oct 2012 00:27
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Sexual Orientation in your Conculture
- Replies: 104
- Views: 23631
Re: Sexual Orientation in your Conculture
Yeeeaaaaaahhhhhh.... some gay people have been murdered, so everyone else ought only to write books where gay people have magic rainbows that cure leprochauns beaming out of their stomachs and nobody is ever mean to anyone else ever? Because yes, the correct way to make up for lynching and beating ...