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gestaltist wrote:One question you might want to answer is how the literacy developed. In Iceland, it was imported. Inventing literacy from nothing is much more difficult than learning it from someone.

For reference, on our planet, it only happened about three to five times. (Sumeria, China, Maya)

To me, Shadowrun is the defining example of the cyberpunk aesthetic... but it's pretty weird for a cyberpunk, being half-fantasy. Good setting.

Yeah, I guess. But they're neat in the setting.

Some modern fiction has alternate takes on elves, like Discworld, or Warhammer 40k's Eldar.

Yeah, sure. But Hoskh is still being misleading. Standard etiquette in the worldbuilding subreddit is to downvote unproductive or rude things, not things you disagree with. Rude comments will be moderated and banned, just like they would be here. If Hoskh got a lot of downvotes, it was for behavior....

People on the worldbuilding forum on Reddit are always quick to give their worlds genres. I had no problem with this, until I learned that apparently "fantasy, because magic" isn't specific enough and I have to give my world a more specific genre like "high fantasy" or "low...

Check out Poliespo, a Cherokee-based polysynthetic Esperanto created by a guy later convicted for murder.

Like elemtilas says, -er is too multipurpose in English to have a single gloss. But subsets of the full meaning, sure.

sorry, came off blunter than I meant it

There's a thread for alternative English orthographies. Spelling reform threads are kind of a bad idea, since they lead to arguments.

It's not just about message board formatting. It's about using other techniques, like capitalization or line breaks. This aren't things we use on the forum, because we tend to write prose-style.

Of course, but knowing this difference matters, because most conlangers read stuff written by linguists. I see people get confused all the time.

Linguists usually care much less about notation and terminology than conlangers do. Try using [č] to symbolize [tʃ]. Most conlangers would complain, but linguists? I've seen it so often I can't count.

It's an etymologically phonetic script that behaves a lot more like a logographic script.

Prose English and conversational Internet English have all found replacements for these kind of things.

And from personal experience with Lojban, which tries to have explicit emotion markers for everything, it doesn't work.

Text files for specific "scenes", like a war timeline, and a spreadsheet to combine the individual timelines into one world timeline, with simultaneous events.

The phonetic phonemic inventory.

Altaic theory is itself unpopular.

everything comes from sandscript