The CBB

back in the day when you found a cool website -and you did, that was the fun of it- it was most likely written by hand in html or something like that, by some dude (not by a megacorpo, i mean). so it was that as soon as I got access to a computer with the internet on it I started googling stuff abou...

We call things yellow because the color of an object affects how we think about it and interact with it. Maybe the purpose of dividing things into good and evil is to change how we think about them and interact with them, and thus defining evil is vitally important. Or at least, classification itse...

thinking anything that has a noun associated with it is an actually existing entity has lead so many people philosophically astray, socrates the most prominent and first probably. like lmfao yeah, right, there is "an beauty" and "an 45 degrees" and all the rest of it in a mystica...

Buddhism would be shocked that you consider it restricted to an ethnicity or culture...and would probably ask "Which?"

so would sikhism, jainism, baha'i... sure, they have cultural and aesthetic signs of their cultural origins, but like... so does christianity and islam.

of course the values you want are totally arbitrary, as many such things are, but the standard euro idea of what a poetic and soft language is going to is going to be plosive poor, voicing rich, and mostly CVC. also, take care to figure out the sequence of open and closed syllables you want, even ma...

it used to work. lemme seeee



plus, i just finished building my gf a desk.

absolutely read about non-IE languages, would be my advice.

i am again become the builder of wooden things. https://previews.dropbox.com/p/thumb/ACCTm9lTIbqL4O1uaF2pdIl6ZYoZZiPKP-pw87lPl0GRzyccpJJzLDCggnt_QHxjHrn9tSlakoKKhYdwjw0wSANe0P7JLURcX-_Jf5-5lgrNKVMMehasCbYGipFLH2ZOGgGgNtDEMoUtHQnB2PIw_wDwcxjN9VqvjP7x9IT5UAwTqdHRtDPNB34k37GDv1tCXyT_l_-2YQ3Hkj5mWYfrLvA...

boooiiiii am i gonna have a fun afternoon reading this. edit: indeed I did. just one addendum, from the very subjective and vibes-based perspective of someone who, besides being interested in this from a conworldological perspective, also enjoys playing music. For a real-world example: in Western mu...

kay why not. 1. Gender- dude 2. Sexual orientation- hetero...flexible? 3. Handedness- right 4. Nationality- Chilean 5. Ethnicity you primarily identify with- I don't know, criollo? is latin american an ethnicity? yeah, let's say generic latin american. 6. Neurotype- neurotypical with ADHD characteri...

But the point is that in all these routes, musicians are arguing over whether and when it is acceptable to add notes. The idea of people sitting around arguing over which notes to not play isnt' one that really seems to make sense to me. It does to me. as an illustration, if you and me get together...

You're most welcome: I'm all about conmusic being more of a thing. What I meant by tuning is like this thing about exactly how high or low your notes are: succinctly, we have all the 12 notes spaced evenly across the octave: like, the interval betwen C and Db is *exactly* the interval between A and ...

Neato! I've long been thinking about getting into conmusic, but I've yet to come around to it. It's nice to see some popping up. this is, in a few ways, rather realistic in the sense of attested: I don't know that conflating form which note you start and the intervalic structure of a scale is very c...

Sal's right, but it could be that this is like a framework for a bunch of magic systems? such that specific systems of magic can instantiate the vague things in specificity so that, say, system A requires work in the sense of emotional work, the caster faces their own fears and, if successful, effec...

People go to live and farm in the mountains for all sorts of reasons: they're not as hard to live in as they look. no, really. you get used to climbing stairs, and the terraces once you build them are just there. even the most mountainous places are, well... earth! <or your conworld> in that they ha...

do they have heretics that believe that the anti-god is the actual god? that'd be fun

After... decades? I think it's decades, of not writing anything, I got the itch to write again

it's a script for audio smut but, still it feels good to weave stories, I had almost forgotten.

English is not, functionally, logographic. It is closer to being so than other languages, but not even that much. While there are supposed to be rules for spelling and reasons for why cough dough sow whatever, I don't think those rules are real in the sense that speakers probably just know the seque...

I agree that there's no looking the best, and that there's much qualitativeness to what a romanization makes a conlang feel like. however, there is 'looking better' in some senses, pragmatically speaking at least. for example, at least for me Ŋali sæṇ mby øŋ ṣafu the subscript n and s look... well.....

Well, I've already written this one. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/569875958635429910/970956779934588948/taw_cover.png https://books2read.com/u/b6vZEx <- Here it is. sounds cool, tbh. I think something might be wrong with the publisher, the ebook seems, for lack of a better word, to be out...