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- 18 Mar 2021 20:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Gallo-Tuscan
- Replies: 81
- Views: 22108
Re: Gallo-Tuscan
Cool, it has a vibe that's not exactly like any IRL Romance language but somewhere in a vague zone between them and I think that's really cool since it's still interesting even though that kind of a romlang could easily end up being bland and boring if it was too much like IRL Romance languages. If ...
- 13 Mar 2021 21:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 358588
Re: Other Creativity
My band has released its first album! Sounds comfy! I can imagine floating in space listening to this, but not necessarily in a spaceship or anything but maybe just as well as an alien that can survive without oxygen and withstand the conditions, without caring about what kind of a planet it eventu...
- 13 Mar 2021 18:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Conlang YouTube, Metal Music, Emotions, Etc. [Split]
- Replies: 93
- Views: 59347
Re: Conlang YouTube, Metal Music, Emotions, Etc. [Split]
"rejected" comments lately? Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I didn't notice. I have gotten bot spam comments that get automatically filtered sometimes, and imho it's good they get filtered because, well, they're bot spam. I think the comments you mentioned (except the one that mentioned your...
- 10 Mar 2021 01:48
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Making a Music Culture?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 20249
Re: Making a Music Culture?
(that anyone cares to listen to) bruh strict pentatonality, for example, would also be relatively simpler in this sense: by contrast, you're going to find a lot more different types of intervals in more microtonal music. from the perspective of information, say, you need fewer bytes to encode a son...
- 08 Mar 2021 22:04
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Making a Music Culture?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 20249
Re: Making a Music Culture?
The first thing I'd say is: yes, different instruments sound differently, but not THAT differently. Sure, but the difference in the sound between eg. a guitar and an ukulele for example is notable. Even if you tune an ukulele to EADG in the same octave as a nylon-string acoustic guitar, well, it'll...
- 08 Mar 2021 16:50
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Making a Music Culture?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 20249
Re: Making a Music Culture?
My reply will be the least helpful, but eh, I'll post in this thread anyway just to ramble about why I struggle with this myself. If you're fine with the music of your conculture never existing in real life, as in you have no plans to make it yourself or to ever commission somebody to make it, then ...
- 06 Mar 2021 01:47
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3385
- Views: 311100
Re: Romanization game #2
/p t c k/ <p t ṯ c>
/f s ç x h/ <f s j k h>
/m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ṉ g>
/l j w/ <l y w>
/i ĩ u ũ/ <i į u ų>
/a ã/ <a ą>
Next:
/m n/
/p b t k ʔ/
/s ʃ/
/j h/
/ɹ r l/
/a ɛ e i ɨ ɔ o u/
/ã ɛ̃ ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ɔ̃ õ ũ/
/aː ɛː eː iː ɨː ɔː oː uː/
/ãː ɛ̃ː ẽː ĩː ɨ̃ː ɔ̃ː õː ũː/
/f s ç x h/ <f s j k h>
/m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ṉ g>
/l j w/ <l y w>
/i ĩ u ũ/ <i į u ų>
/a ã/ <a ą>
Next:
/m n/
/p b t k ʔ/
/s ʃ/
/j h/
/ɹ r l/
/a ɛ e i ɨ ɔ o u/
/ã ɛ̃ ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ɔ̃ õ ũ/
/aː ɛː eː iː ɨː ɔː oː uː/
/ãː ɛ̃ː ẽː ĩː ɨ̃ː ɔ̃ː õː ũː/
- 06 Mar 2021 01:12
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656243
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks Pabappa, and thanks for the very detailed response Sal! [:)] Your posts made it clear that an ice meteor (or comet or whatever) couldn't be the handwave I thought it could be, so now I'm going to have to go back to thinking of other ways for the sea to rise that wouldn't have (as) catastrophi...
- 05 Mar 2021 19:00
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656243
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Let's say a huge ice meteor hit the Earth and caused sea levels to rise by about 230 metres. How big would it have to be? How fast would the oceans rise? I've been trying to figure this out for a while but honestly can't math even at the level of a primary schooler, so I figured I'd just ask here if...
- 04 Feb 2021 01:06
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 881
- Views: 275134
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
:pol: jak się masz? - how are you? :tib: (Amdo) jəχ sha ma - widow A bit of a stretch since they'd be used in totally different contexts, but... I'm also not sure if the <sh> of Amdo Tibetan is [sʰ] or [ɕ], probably the former tbh but it's still similar enough that I think it kinda counts as a false...
- 23 Jan 2021 20:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1107
- Views: 282231
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I figured I'd post to say that on Reddit, I was told it really is just "[number]番のロッカー" but the user also explained that there's a nuance difference from "[number]番目のロッカー", that the the former may be more likely to actually have a number on it while the latter may be more likely ...
- 22 Jan 2021 02:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1107
- Views: 282231
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Even in English, the idea of fog "rising" is confusing. When mists begin, they rise, and so if a mist got thicker you could loosely say it was rising. However, fogs fall, or descend. If someone told me the fog was rising, I would probably assume they meant the fog was lifting (i.e. gettin...
- 21 Jan 2021 06:51
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1107
- Views: 282231
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In Japanese, what's the standard counter (or I guess it's not really a counter, but I'm not sure what the right term is) for things like locker numbers? There are a results on Google for "[number]号室のロッカー" and also just "[number]号のロッカー", but not many for either like I'd expect if ...
- 30 Dec 2020 16:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347305
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
maybe from /w/. I dont know of any such languages offhand Southern Ryukyuan languages have /b/ where other Japonic languages have /w/, so presumably /w/ -> /b/ is the exact shift that happened. Some argue it was the other way around, that Proto-Japonic had /b/ and it was lenited to /w/ except in So...
- 04 Dec 2020 19:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: A (Very Rough) Galactic Empire Population Model
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7063
Re: A (Very Rough) Galactic Empire Population Model
This is really cool! If you call this "very rough", I can't even imagine what a "polished and detailed" version would be. [:O] Since you mentioned "exotic food" and "sealed habitats on inhospitable planets", I assume you're factoring in that inhabitable planet...
- 02 Dec 2020 21:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155283
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Just something random with potential to get tongue-twistery: /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p t k/ <b d g> /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ <p t k> /t͡s t͡ʃ/ <dz j> /t͡sʰ t͡ʃʰ/ <ts c> /s ʃ/ <s x> /ʋ j h/ <v y h> /r l/ <r l> /a~r̩~ɬ̩~s̩/ <a> /i~r̩ʲ~ɬ̩ʲ~ɕ̩/ <i> /u~r̩ʷ~ɬ̩ʷ~s̩ʷ/ <u> <a i u> are [a̠ i u] after /pʰ tʰ kʰ t͡sʰ t͡ʃʰ r l/ and...
- 26 Nov 2020 01:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: My unnamed Con language (edited version 1.3)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1921
Re: My unnamed Con language
Then the rest I will get loan from various languages (esp. arabic, persian). You might want to consider that usually the words in the Swadesh list are not borrowed from other languages. That's not absolute by any means, though, sometimes some of even the most basic native vocabulary can be replaced...
- 26 Nov 2020 01:30
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pangaea (NSFW description)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4699
Re: Pangaea (NSFW description)
Actually, not true. Sòme people may view sexuality that way, "dirty or immoral" but I think they're very much in the minority. Quite the opposite, the Church understands sexuality itself, as with all things, when rightly ordered of course, to be beautiful and good. What ìs understood to b...
- 25 Nov 2020 12:40
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pangaea (NSFW description)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4699
Re: Pangaea (NSFW description)
Also obviously not everything can be acceptable, that's why I said "as many things as possible". Why not everything? Not everyone in any society is going to agree with how permissive they've grown legally and socially even if they're actually pretty conservative societies (as can be shown...
- 23 Nov 2020 11:47
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3385
- Views: 311100
Re: Romanization game #2
/p b t d k g ʔ/ <p b t d k g q> /f v s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ h/ <f v s z sŷ zŷ kŵ gŵ h> /t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ <c j cŷ jŷ> /m n ɲ/ <m n nŷ> /l j ʎ w ʕ/ <l y lŷ w qŵ> /r/ <r> /i u/ <i u> /e ə o/ <eŷ eŵ oŵ> /ɛ ɔ/ <e o> /a/ <a> Next: /m n ŋ/ /b t d k q ʔ/ /s ʃ/ /j w x χ h/ /r l/ /ɑ æ e ə i ɯ o ʌ u/ I'll always cringe a...