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by valiums
07 Jan 2016 05:02
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: cultural symbiosis and multilingual cultures?
Replies: 14
Views: 3986

Re: cultural symbiosis and multilingual cultures?

Sort of? One of my conworlds is based on the Tower of Babylon story. Thanks to ~~magic~~, there are a few lingua francas (including not just the spoken and written language, but the signed and body language of the people who 'recorded' it, as well as cultural symbols and attitudes, and a bizarre nos...
by valiums
17 Nov 2015 08:32
Forum: Translations
Topic: Cellar door
Replies: 23
Views: 4125

Re: Cellar door

:con:YAIAL:

mile sami lohe 'bottom room door'
some siwe sami lohe 'underground room door'
some siwe hisi'ma lohe 'underground building-part door'

I love rhotics, so that phrase is nice. Sounds near the middle of the mouth, alveolars and all that, are pretty.
by valiums
12 Nov 2015 22:54
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Food in your concultures
Replies: 57
Views: 13935

Re: Food in your concultures

Ooh, fun topic. Tradition states that the Woor can eat only because the spirit Hánsah , who made a pact with the first humans to enter Lom, and caused plants to grow, animals to pass, and the waters to raise and recede each season. Small acknowledgemets to her are said before eating; powawa (from pu...
by valiums
12 Nov 2015 10:33
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Gay marriage, polygamy, etc.
Replies: 105
Views: 25431

Re: Gay marriage, polygamy, etc.

There are varying degrees of romantic and sexual entanglement in Lom, but no marriage.


Wow, that must be the longest essay I've ever written on any consubject. :roll:
by valiums
27 Jul 2015 11:11
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Sum up your conworld with a song
Replies: 28
Views: 5234

Re: Sum up your conworld with a song

It's The End Of The World by R.E.M immediately came to me for Tern. It captures the world situation and the conpeople's historical reactions to it preeeetty well.
by valiums
24 Apr 2015 11:29
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Immortality in a conworld
Replies: 84
Views: 18806

Re: Immortality in a conworld

There is a small race of long-lived humanoids in my conworld. They age the last few hundred years of their millennial cycles, before going through a couple of decades of a rejuvenation process: their bodies heal up and grow smaller again, and their minds also reset to a degree. Their memories "...
by valiums
18 Apr 2015 21:14
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Gestures in your conlang.
Replies: 8
Views: 3118

Re: Gestures in your conlang.

In the Archlands, everyone has an ability which basically amounts to making fire, so a lot of gestures are supplemented by a small light. Yes - front-to-back or up-and-down nodding No - side-to-side shaking, without tilting the head. Maybe-yes - learning the head from side to side Maybe-no - shaking...
by valiums
07 Mar 2015 02:42
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
Replies: 486
Views: 179662

Re: Random Conworld idea thread

In one of my conworlds, area A is filled with these equality-minded folks who have traditionally only used spears/pikes/similar, and area-B is filled with a caste-split society, in which the upper classes are trained in the sword. When area B invades A, the superiors order the breaking of every enem...
by valiums
14 Feb 2015 19:32
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
Replies: 486
Views: 179662

Re: Random Conworld idea thread

Destroying rubber duckies. This gave me an idea, actually, for something called Temple Hunting , which would be played in the Middlands during the flooding season. Area: Of varying size; typically from any one flood gate to any other flood gate. Items: Hollow wooden spheres wrapped in thick cloth, ...
by valiums
04 Feb 2015 09:52
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: World Gazette
Replies: 4
Views: 2200

Re: World Gazette

RAKAKÍNBBOMMU | Your Central City Daily Life NGÚHALINGA HÓO | 1011 A.T.R. * * * NKIMMO | 5¢ ARÁSALIKÌ SÙU ÁKONRA | CORRUPTION LEVELS IN ARASALI RISE WILDLY Citizens residing in and traveling to the district of Arasali and surrounding areas are reminded to pay proper tribute to bochi local shrines a...
by valiums
04 Feb 2015 08:37
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Debate (Conpeople vs Conpeople)
Replies: 85
Views: 28608

Re: Debate (Conpeople vs Conpeople)

I love this idea, I've always wanted to see more people's responses to questions in the other thread. The Tower Middlands support the idea of democracy, but not a completely free one. While it is natural and obvious that those best suited to a task should be the ones to do it, there is no sense in d...
by valiums
25 Nov 2014 06:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexicon sculpting [2013–2019]
Replies: 2345
Views: 447616

Re: Lexicon sculpting

Doing a bunch for Malomoya. Next: *os ['os] n 2 . woman -ōss- [ oːsː ] terminal infix -woman; female professional doer of X Next: siviths [ˈsɪvɪθs] n. corridor, hallway shofidi [ ˈʃopsɪd ] n. hallway Next: Heuchtäfernkreuße Eskliefeier (pronounced as though it were German) 'ready' aksalava [ ˈaksləv...
by valiums
21 Jul 2014 23:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253822

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

Thoughts on this? http://puu.sh/aligT/09e5b920af.PNG http://puu.sh/alire/02163284d5.PNG Some examples from a translation challenge from the Zeeby: http://puu.sh/aefDP/ecef7cd1a1.png http://puu.sh/aeVlN/bdf2074521.PNG Shchíli-tàshi shìlgani hódo. Lájìlá rúvulu. http://puu.sh/aeZMc/39243dd411.png Nàgó...
by valiums
31 Jan 2014 08:10
Forum: Translations
Topic: Ordering Coffee
Replies: 17
Views: 3907

Re: Ordering Coffee

Nloya: Nakóhìta zinyójínga nláshíso hilyáínga yúísoma lóújo ngóírí. I-coffee/LOC-into 2-packet/DIR-ADJ cream/DIR-ACC 1-dash/DIR-ADJ sugar/DIR-ACC-and I/DIR-NOM desire.want/PRS. Or, if you're in a hurry: Nakóhíta zínga nláshí hínga yúímanshi narírìvi. I-coffee/LOC-into | 2-ADJ cream/DIR | 1-ADJ sugar...
by valiums
10 Nov 2013 11:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 3
Views: 1216

Re: Conlang tongue twisters

A short Llapuan tongue-twister:

Shishināsha sshīsha issi sisisi.
/ʃiʃinaːʃa ʃːiːʃa isːi sisisi/
If the washbasin and the other thing are holding it.
by valiums
09 Nov 2013 01:54
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Open Marriages
Replies: 13
Views: 4516

Re: Open Marriages

Llapuans probably wouldn't make it past the words "open marriage". They marry strictly for business between clans and love freely else, so the whole situation would be unthinkable. The closest thing they have would be long-term relationships; malizphirai "a long time in love" for...
by valiums
21 Jun 2013 23:40
Forum: Translations
Topic: The house over the hill
Replies: 14
Views: 3429

Re: The house over the hill

:con: Hakkoche

Nitin kimo (ko) tsoman do nam siyoki.
hill/GEN beyond (COP) house-GEN to[-ACC] 1-NOM go
I went to the house (that is) over the hill.

Tsoman do nam nitin kimos siyoki.
house-GEN to[-ACC] 1-NOM hill/GEN beyond-INST go
I went over the hill to the house.
by valiums
20 Jun 2013 21:08
Forum: Translations
Topic: We get drunk by drinking wine.
Replies: 41
Views: 8779

Re: We get drunk by drinking wine.

:con: Hakkoche

Wain akkeshis pohatsa (nunam) le .
wain[-ACC] drinking-GINST drunk[-ACC] (1-NOM) become
We get drunk by drinking wine.
by valiums
20 Jun 2013 02:28
Forum: Translations
Topic: At...my...leaves for...
Replies: 21
Views: 6513

Re: At...my...leaves for...

:con: Hakkoche

Nanpichekel Tsaasaa(n do) nunan haanaserkom wochiki.
middle-hour-TEMP Tsaasaa(-GEN to[-ACC]) 1-GEN air-boat-NOM flying
At noon, my plane flies to Tsaasaa.
by valiums
13 Oct 2012 21:07
Forum: Translations
Topic: Recursion
Replies: 31
Views: 5951

Re: Recursion

:con: La-Pu Kaani qisibi qisaki qisibi. kaan-i qis-ib-i qis-ak-i qis-ib-i know-do see-I-do see-you-do see-I-do I see you see I see he knows. Slightly more correctly: Kaaniqak qisibiqak qisakiqak qisibi. kaan-i-qa-k qis-ib-i-qa-k qis-ak-i-qa-k qis-ib-i know-do-thing-OBJ see-I-do-thing-OBJ see-you-do-...