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by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 23:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Lexicon Building [2010–2019]
Replies: 2299
Views: 381094

Re: CBB Lexicon Building

Yagia1 wrote:
next:

to scatter
Koisiton - to flee
flee.PERF-INF

Next: primal hatred
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 22:37
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

rickardspaghetti wrote:Like the Reapers from Mass Effect?
Something like, but there's only one.
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 22:31
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

rickardspaghetti wrote:So it's an entirely natural entity? Perhaps something mutated, or an alien lifeform?
Completely natural, not hypernatural, just another sentient alien that naturally evolved to breach the known laws of the universe.
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 21:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tititwatwasinatwaqa
Replies: 47
Views: 5494

Re: Twaqan

Vowel system looks like Mandarin. Grossly simplified, but to be honest, a conlang that truly had Mandarin's vowel system would be mind-bendingly insane. Nineteen vowels, unless I miss my count. In Mandarin? It depends on the analysis. Some analyses put it down to three with all the other vowels and...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 21:50
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Trailsend wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:
Darkgamma wrote: The usual Lovecraftian monster.
Which one? Or is that just a trope?
Trope.
I didn't put it like that because it has some magicky connotations. I don't have magic in my sci-fi world
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 20:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Coniversetropes
Replies: 58
Views: 6308

Re: Coniversetropes

Milyamd wrote:Maybe we need a symbol showing one's sex, next to avatar and username.
That's hard.
Here we have multiple genders, such as bearded cat
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 18:55
Forum: Translations
Topic: Pragmatism
Replies: 10
Views: 3178

Re: Pragmatism

Yes, I understood that, but my brain cannot parse it as valid English, especially with the disconnected sentences. It is quite clunky... I'm not sure I'd phrase it that way myself, but anyway. I'm not familiar with the quotation, but I suspect it's from a somewhat older text--constructions of this ...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 18:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Phonotactics
Replies: 21
Views: 3332

Re: Phonotactics

Kti: (C)(C)VC/(C)CV(C) Each phoneme takes its corresponding space except /ʔ/ It's counted as VC and behaves like a VC . This lets me have fun clusters such as: /snʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔsnʔʔʔʔʔʔsnʔʔʔʔʔʔʔʔʔ/ ...while being OK Not to mention the concept of mixed syllable and omitted and shared nu...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 18:12
Forum: Translations
Topic: Pragmatism
Replies: 10
Views: 3178

Re: Pragmatism

Translate iff you can! :eng: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object. I can't even understand this. "When you think up a thing, do...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 18:05
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

rickardspaghetti wrote:So who is this third evil?
The usual Lovecraftian monster.
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 18:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-puns
Replies: 13
Views: 3621

Re: Con-puns

"Ktai nās uenem" and "Ktai nāz uenem" are my favourite, and accidental, puns. Ktai nās uenem - She's wet Ktai nās uenem - She's sexually aroused Ktai nāz uenem - She's murderous Ktai nāz uenem - She's deceptive There are additional meanings, such as "She's a shower" and...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 16:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631535

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I don't see how, honestly. You would simply do what's done now with large cities; split it into districts and then sub-districts and so on. It would also quite easily account for areas being forgotten by such an unwieldy bureaucracy. What about, I dunno, food? What do they eat? Importing exists but...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 16:45
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

rickardspaghetti wrote:So Bruce Willis was a ghost all the time!? :roll:
:D
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 16:40
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So if the anti-hero is so horrible yet the lesser of two evils and the actual villain is so nice he can get honest people for his evil cause, how fucking cuddly is he? Is he like a big papa Stalin with a warm smile and a big mustache? "I mean he killed several million people, but look at that ...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 16:35
Forum: Translations
Topic: Pragmatism
Replies: 10
Views: 3178

Re: Pragmatism

Omzinesý wrote:Translate iff you can!
:eng: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
I can't even understand this.
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 16:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035670

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Nuxálk has plenty of words without vowels but I've noticed it has none without fricatives from what I've seen (as long as you consider aspiration to be an underlying /h/), which leads me to believe fricatives phonologically pattern as continuants in the languages. For example, we have the word sc̓q...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 16:04
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Anyway, I much prefer anti-heroes over ordinary heroes. It'd be interesting to see how you'd make your villain the hero. But what does that make of your cast that are thought to be the heroes? Will they become the villains? They think they're good, but they end up almost breaking the last resistanc...
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 00:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035670

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Chagen wrote:Okay, the chance of a 26-Obstruent cluster is rare, but it's technically possible.
Not that, but the sheer illogicality
There's no pattern or anything to what you've mentioned.
Even Salishan language phonotactics (even though unknown) are neither rabid nor random
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 00:06
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455405

Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

rickardspaghetti wrote:
Darkgamma wrote:Snape almost ended up being Potter's father.
But instead he became a sadistic prick.
Point taken.
by Darkgamma
19 Oct 2011 00:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035670

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Chagen wrote:What I meant was that if a word has no written vowels, then it must be pronounced as one massive consonant cluster. No exceptions. Even one vowel to ease the pronounciation is wrong. Suck it up and pronounce those 26-obstruent clusters...
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