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- 16 Nov 2018 11:04
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: alternate ways to say "tribal fantasy"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 186505
Re: alternate ways to say "tribal fantasy"
Rightly or wrongly, the word 'tribal' suggests a sort of spear-chucking, constantly warring societal structure in which the main purpose of tribes is to differentiate competitors/enemies (and thus make it vaguely more tolerable when you have to pillage, rape and kill them). A softer word would be '...
- 15 Nov 2018 12:05
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: alternate ways to say "tribal fantasy"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 186505
Re: alternate ways to say "tribal fantasy"
Rightly or wrongly, the word 'tribal' suggests a sort of spear-chucking, constantly warring societal structure in which the main purpose of tribes is to differentiate competitors/enemies (and thus make it vaguely more tolerable when you have to pillage, rape and kill them). A softer word would be 'c...
- 22 Sep 2018 02:26
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: What would humanoid bugs use as mounts?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 28429
Re: What would humanoid bugs use as mounts?
i just noticed something, a lot of people have been suggesting i use fungus as mounts for some apparent reason. like a i understand most birds eat but...a fungus? sorry your suggestion's great but it's little...strange? i might keep it. Well, there's precedence for real-world bugs cultivating fungu...
- 19 Sep 2018 11:49
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: What would humanoid bugs use as mounts?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 28429
Re: What would humanoid bugs use as mounts?
How about having the bugs use their collective intelligence to 'grow' flying machines of some kind (maybe from fungus)? Nothing sophisticated, just a wing, steering and propulsion system? Plenty of fungi have delicate, membranous wing-like parts and some can shoot spores a long distance, so the prop...
- 19 May 2018 13:36
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 460
- Views: 206137
Re: Jokes
I'm guessing that the following will cause a few scratched heads. You'll either get it, get it but not find it funny, or not have a clue what's going on... I think being silly and British helps. It's currently my favourite ever joke precisely because people's reactions are so varied. Q - What do yo...
- 14 May 2018 14:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: why is it that in many fantasy stories, humans are the focus?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 18865
Re: why is it that in many fantasy stories, humans are the focus?
that's comforting....no wonder my thread on my world was sort of dead. Well, the more inhuman something becomes, the more niche it becomes. There may well be an audience, for example, for talking mushroom-men stories, but there will always be far more general interest in human stories. I've nothing...
- 12 May 2018 16:25
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 460
- Views: 206137
Re: Jokes
I'm guessing that the following will cause a few scratched heads. You'll either get it, get it but not find it funny, or not have a clue what's going on... I think being silly and British helps. It's currently my favourite ever joke precisely because people's reactions are so varied. Q - What do you...
- 11 May 2018 12:13
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: why is it that in many fantasy stories, humans are the focus?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 18865
Re: why is it that in many fantasy stories, humans are the focus?
As a few have already stated, the reason is because we are human, and writing about humans makes our relationship to the characters and the things they do stronger. There is much more mileage in exploring the unusual beliefs and thought processes that humans can exhibit than in making creatures who ...
- 09 May 2018 12:39
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Modern Hittite lang: realistic?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10779
Re: Modern Hittite lang: realistic?
I don't see a logical issue with that idea, but an intermediate step might simply be a total loss of case for the possessor and possessed (or sharing of the same case), perhaps supported by an intervening clitic.
- 09 May 2018 12:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Language evolution for long-lived people
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2455
Re: Language evolution for long-lived people
Interesting.... back in the day I did table-top role-playing games, and we envisaged immortal creatures who passed through the centuries, and moved from place to place (usually as a result of being hounded out), assimilating language and culture as they went. Despite being immortal, their memories w...
- 04 May 2018 12:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedlang VIII (May 4, 5, 6)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11109
Re: Speedlang VIII (May 4, 5, 6)
Sigh, I was looking forward to this and had some neat ideas based on the rules, but my partner got herself fired today so I'm not optimistic I'll get much done...
Bloody real world.
Bloody real world.
- 01 May 2018 14:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1588
Re: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
There's always the hybrid option, where some consonants function in an abugida style, others as abjads, others as stand-alone syllables. Since it's a conlang, anything is possible!
- 30 Apr 2018 07:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedlang VIII (May 4, 5, 6)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11109
Re: Speedlang VIII
Sounds interesting - count me in.
- 24 Apr 2018 13:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lortho: An Artistic Conlang
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4581
Re: Lortho: An Artistic Conlang
I rather like it. What impresses me most is the way you've started to weave cultural artefacts into it to explain certain things, which gives a nice naturalistic feel. Also, you've avoided the temptation to have a ridiculous, unusable orthography and alien grammar, meaning that the result is potenti...
- 24 Apr 2018 09:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3701
Re: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
Concepts/ideas to batter around... Since the proposed proto-writing is used solely to aid the recitation of oral-histories, a limited range of expression is required. There is no need, for example, for any grammatical person other than the third since the histories simply state who did what to whom...
- 23 Apr 2018 12:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3701
Re: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
Well, I'm more than happy to steer things back on track. All of the above goes to prove the old adage that the meaning of any communication is found in how it is interpreted, not in what is said or written. I've made mistakes with some word choices (e.g. resurrect), and the word 'appropriate' was us...
- 20 Apr 2018 02:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3701
Re: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
Last ditch attempt at a rationale. Hope this clarifies/satisfies: Disclaimer (apparently very important): This project outlines a symbolic written language which utilizes the glyph shapes attested in the Rongorongo of Easter Island. These glyph shapes are assigned meanings, sometimes those which are...
- 20 Apr 2018 00:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3701
Re: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
Okay... I'll attempt to re-explain my position. Perhaps I've done a bad job in the OP of expressing what I would like to do, and if that's the case its due to my phrasing of things. Perhaps the idea is grossly offensive and I should be ashamed of myself, but I still don't see it. Several things I've...
- 19 Apr 2018 06:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3701
Re: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
Well, as yet there is no name for this - I've only stated that it would be based on the RR script and used within the narrow context of Rapanui oral history. I have at no point stated that the result would be a reconstruction of the script/language, only an aesthetically similar thing that conveys t...
- 19 Apr 2018 00:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3701
Re: Collaborative Resurrection of Rongorongo
Steps 3 and 4, as I said, are barely attested, but they have existed. Take Chinese, for example, which moved swiftly through a period where the oracle bone characters (presumed to be pictographic-mnemonic) were deliberately compounded and augmented to create new characters. Some were made by combini...