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Well, the question is tricky, because no kind of SF colonisation really makes sense, so it's hard to compare. But we can break it down. What makes a colony hard? Inherent Problems: 1. Pressure 2. Deadly radiation 3. Heat 4. Gravity 5. Environmental assaults Operational Problems: 6. Exploration costs...

Marchlands are border regions or territories. They are often semi-independent of the bigger countries around them. Margrave and marquis are the notional continuations in English of overlords of marchlands. Merica continues the idea as the Marches between Germanic and Romano-Celtic territories in Br...

Leaving aside Trebor's bizarre "of" in that example, which makes it ungrammatical for me, how is "how long a book is it?" idiomatic? Except, I guess, in defining that dimension as length rather than depth or width, which I guess might make more sense. But "how wide a book is...

Rodiniye wrote:An auxlang must be effective in terms of communication.

It's just it looks like a rather suspicious coincidence that what you consider "effective in terms of communication" is almost exactly the same as "what my native language family does"...

Really enjoying reading this:) Thank you! I'm glad someone did. Guess I should post the last couple of sections at some point... Alynnidalar: the main international airport is Finnloge Yngomąr Yósefsson Aerodrom, just outside Wethafurð, opened in the 1980s. More rarely, international flights can be...

Lit. Because I think, I live. [...] Yauchuan will also say: thought is life's source. [...] Furthermore, in all of those sentences which have wenwazai 'thought; cogitation', one could substitute guare 'idea; reason; ideation' It should really be pointed out that that isn't what "cogito ergo su...

ALERT! ALERT! ...sorry. I just wanted to point out, the most problematic bit for translations here will probably the concept of "for". The sentence you gave has many possible meanings in English, which would probably have different translations in most languages, as "for" conflat...

6. Dig into the history The Wenthars may not be at the top of anyone’s list of historically-rich nations, but while you’re there it would be a shame not to spend a little time seeing the sights. You might just be surprised. The oldest sites in the islands are the ancient Celtic monasteries, of whic...

Dinnkjirkj? Is that Dunkirk? Good guess, but no. "Dunkirk" is equivalent to English "Downchurch"; "dinnkjirkj" translates to English "Deanchurch" or "Denchurch". [I should have said something in that post about the culture of poetry recitals, but ne...

There's three possible "half rings" in IPA. The left facing ring, with a hole on the right side is less rounding. The right facing ring is more rounding. The bottom facing ring (which is the most-common) is used to indicate non-syllabic consonants and vowels. This is used for diphthongs i...

Even within English both options are attested: assimilate, repair and foretelling against aspirate, rebate and forearm.

5. Soak up the culture National pride – pride not in a country, but in a cultural nation – has long been central to Wenthar politics, and it should come as no surprise that traditional culture remains vibrant on the islands. National dress – largely unisex aside from head coverings, emphasising twe...

4. The sweat and tears of sporting life The national sport of the Wenthars is, as it is almost everywhere in the world, football. For men, at least – women are more likely to play handball or camogie. Indeed, among spectators the women’s sports are more popular – largely because any footballer of a...

It seems like commands might also be able to have different apects: "Eat carrots" (for a moment) vs. "eat carrots" (habitually), although "Be eating carrots", "Have eaten carrots" and "Have been eating carrots" are not very useful. It seems to me th...

The Wenthar Islands are few people’s idea of the ideal holiday destination. They’re wet, windy, and rarely all that warm, with little in the way of country homes, cathedrals or castles, and even fewer broad sandy beaches. Yet surprisingly, these isolated little rocks off the west coast of Europe mak...

That's just suffixing the possessed noun with a pronominal possessive suffix , it's not its own case at all. Even if the noun cannot change cases in the situation? Thanks for the info also Even in that circumstance yes, but then neither nor any other natlang I know with both cases and pronominal po...

Pretty sure he actually wanted to know if any languages fused subject and object pronouns into a single pronoun, because that's what he asked.

I believe the answer is 'yes', but can't prove it.

Can someone further explain pluralactionality to me? I read the Wikipedia article and I sorta get it, but I'd like some clarification. I'm thinking about creating a language with a fusional morphology on its verbs, and it has polypersonal agreement. Over time, the separate affixes for the subject a...

If I tell you which is the quick+animal construction referring to, would you know? Rabbit, right? Those things are fast, and they breed quickly, so it matches the construction in two ways. I would assume the same. "Human" would make more sense to me. Humans are the fastest animals, after ...

So no Bible unless it's the nice bits then? Got it. Well, the John quote and the Psalms quote were posted six years apart, and the latter was only after you made this thread, so they weren't exactly a flood. But yes, if someone were posting "nice bits" of the Bible every day, that'd worry...