The CBB

All you guys keep name-dropping video games and animes I've never even heard of, and then once one of you have mentioned it, all these other people join in the conversation as if they've heard of it too! Huh. A lot of memes were started by Portal, like "The cake is a lie" and a few others. There's ...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021 23:25

kiwikami wrote: ↑29 Mar 2021 23:11 My first thought was

What's that?

GLADOS, from the popular video game Portal

If I have to come up with color terms for my “space centipedes” I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew. My humans see just like we do and I know which colors I want them to have basic terms for. It’s a rather numerous set; but I haven’t come up with the actual words themselves yet. I mi...

It's interesting that while your dream is obviously Bible based, the rat and the ox are the first two animals in Chinese astrology.

Many of them look nice, especially for a first try. Although I wish you the best luck in achieving your goal.

I don't have much to directly comment on but I do have some to direct at Sal about parthenogenesis that he seems to have misconceptions about. I'm only saying this because I did a lot of research on parthenogenesis specifically and genetics more broadly for a nonterrestrial species I worked on a few...

Is a pitch accent dependent upon syllable weight? It's been awhile since I last researched the concept, but I recall it being so in Ancient Greek. Does the same apply to Japanese or Vedic Sanskrit? In Japanese, it's generally seen as dependent on morae, so to some extent, syllable weight affects pi...

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Whatever. Cats aren’t fish, and they live in air not water, so you won’t have that problem!

Gratefully, yes. And while still different than humans, cats have much closer sensory inputs than between us and fish.

[:D] I don't think in my case I'd use something similar but if I did, I might use that for my cats. ... Fish whose ancestors never lived on dry land basically have only two senses in the water; * sight * feeling/smelling/tasting/hearing I'd think it would be at least three: sight, feeling/hearing, s...

You're right, I hadn't considered most of the things you pointed out Sal. Although I have heard that animals that are more scent oriented can often tell if a scent is older or newer, at least for things they're more familiar with. For example, a dog knowing if another dog marked a tree more recently...

So, humans tend to be seen on the whole as a visual and auditory species. Not that we have The Best vision and hearing, but that these are the primary ways we experience the world, when we don't have some form of disability regarding these. Scent is powerfully connected to memory, but we don't have ...

Not so much funny as sad... On my own FrathWiki page I have under Facenda: Font for Queranaran done! ✔ Make a font for Avantimannish Make a font for Loucarian Sadly, neither of those other fonts has ever gooten made. There's always another day to work on them, assuming those aren't defunct at least.

... My knowledge about Japanese is very limited, but I have understood that Japanese /i/ and /u/ are extra-high (and thus often devoiced). Extra-high vowels often make adjacent plosives aspirated/fricatives. Any fricative can be easily lenited further as far as zero. Proto-Bantu also had extra-high...

A change like /t/ > /0/ before front vowels or back vowels. wouldn't be expected to just happen. Of course, with intermediaries it's always possible. I'm wondering if I could work with on of: /t/ > /?/ > /0/ /t/ > /θ/ (> /h/)? > /0/ /t/ > /s/ (which would merge it with already existing /s/, but tha...

Japanese had a lot of /k/s disappear at one point of its development, especially before /i u/ (tho /k/s were reinserted before /u/s in most dialects, or some verbs and adjectives had forms with a /k/ and forms with it dropped). Question: could there be a similar sound change for /t/ in some language...

These brightened my morning :3 I wish I had more of my old notes on hand but they're buried somewhere.

I found a short note to myself about my goals for Nyango, my Japanese-based cat language. These two amused me: Different greetings, not a question. And ... Long /r/, LONG /r/ DAMMIT. What funny notes to self have you made for your languages. I'd especially like to see ones that are odd or striking o...

Mandarin shíjiān 時間, meaning time. I'm not actively learning Mandarin but I've considered picking it up, and I'm learning a bit of Classical Chinese for a project.

So far I think I have the following things down: Frēdauon will have started out as a waterworld that somehow lost water after some time. There might not be plate tectonics. Volcanoes should be rarer in general, as they happen only where coal deposits are available (but where does coal come from?). ...

From this meme: https://64.media.tumblr.com/f1d2b4ca1f69ed6d6e9e936944d082b7/tumblr_omhtvr9AC71txwpgyo1_1280.png I'm mostly interested in how these would be translated as far as what words would be used in place of the swear (and making my own attempt in Japanese), as well as how the reply of "Langu...