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by Man in Space
13 Sep 2024 02:37
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Jokes
Replies: 469
Views: 216739

Re: Jokes

What did the musician say to his colleague who messed up?

“Don’t worry. Accidentals happen.”
by Man in Space
11 Sep 2024 10:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: An Experiment in Trivocalic ("Trivoc") Roots
Replies: 2
Views: 128

An Experiment in Trivocalic ("Trivoc") Roots

A thought occurs. Now we get to play "How much of this will be recorded before I pass out and how much will be comprehensible". A tricon, but with vocalic roots and consonantal transfixes. This has undoubtedly been done before, but I thought of some ways I might handle it. This language is...
by Man in Space
11 Sep 2024 06:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Replies: 784
Views: 195920

Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

Khemehekis wrote: 11 Sep 2024 02:25Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!
Enjoy.
by Man in Space
11 Sep 2024 00:42
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 927
Views: 236013

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Probably won't get much worse than heavy rain, though. It had its flaws, yes, but to use it as a comparand to gauge how awful something is is to a) sell it short, or b) to disregard entirely the— Oh. You meant “heavy rain” literally, not the eponymous PS3 game… which is what my brain was telling me...
by Man in Space
11 Sep 2024 00:23
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Recent deaths.
Replies: 22
Views: 13030

Re: Recent deaths.

He was hilarious and touching both in an episode of Frasier and in The Lion King , able to find the fun side of the Force in The Big Bang Theory 1 , and never there in The Hunt for Red October . 1. My Babcia, for whatever reason, loved that show and would talk about it a lot . It brought her joy in ...
by Man in Space
08 Sep 2024 04:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Relay XVII - It Has Begun (Signups remain open)
Replies: 101
Views: 9668

Re: Conlang Relay XVII - It Has Begun (Signups remain open)

I am dubbing this “the Gursed Relay”, on basis of this:
Dormouse559 wrote:
GamerGeek wrote:On the topic of asking questions about the forum:
What relation does the CBB have to the ZBB?
The CBB is the ZBB with the following sound change:

z > s / #_
(i.e. a voicing reversal from “Cursed Relay”)
by Man in Space
03 Sep 2024 05:06
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Replies: 166
Views: 126251

Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread

Arayaz wrote: 27 Apr 2024 19:13
Creyeditor wrote: 27 Apr 2024 19:11 [...] the time when spambots discovered kitchen-sink (conlangs) and tried to sell us kitchens
And then we made a conlang out of it.
by Man in Space
03 Sep 2024 05:02
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Replies: 166
Views: 126251

Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread

Quoting this whole thing to include useful context: :lat: Latin NUNC "now" :esp: Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM It's nunc or nunca ... Venī strictē mē tentum :wat: Google Translate suggests that this is Latvian? Goes to show how much it knows; I am sure it is Latin. Yet is this ...
by Man in Space
03 Sep 2024 00:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Replies: 784
Views: 195920

Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

Kankonian is now officially #1. At 8:49 p.m., I added the word bakotzios , meaning "intrusiveness", to Kankonian. It wasn't a remarkable word; just the abstract noun suffix -os added onto the adjective bakotzi (intrusive). With this, Kankonian surpasses Mmavvii's 100,000 to become the lar...
by Man in Space
21 Aug 2024 07:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Weird Little Speedlang
Replies: 2
Views: 385

Re: Weird Little Speedlang

As /-h/ is a valid coda…if you want to add a little unpredictability, you could pattern it with /-x/ in declension 2. Even if /-h/ is subsequently disallowed, you could have it have been present long enough to trigger assignment to declension 2, and only then drop (or do whatever vowel affectation y...
by Man in Space
20 Aug 2024 01:10
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Surprising cognates
Replies: 181
Views: 124045

Re: Surprising cognates

:eng: fajita ‘fajita’ : fascism ‘fascism’

When I learned that, I almost physically spit-taked because I thought the person telling it to me was trolling me when they first asked me about it.
by Man in Space
15 Aug 2024 02:49
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Foundation of the CBB
Replies: 12
Views: 1499

Re: Foundation of the CBB

More like “seCure, Bcontain, Bprotect”.
by Man in Space
15 Aug 2024 01:57
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Foundation of the CBB
Replies: 12
Views: 1499

Re: Foundation of the CBB

As for establishing links with the SCP Foundation, [DATA EXPUNGED].
by Man in Space
15 Aug 2024 01:53
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Replies: 166
Views: 126251

Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread

My brain is obsessed with reanalyzing the word chimpanzee to a word that uses the suffix -ee meaning the patient of a verb. This would imply a transitive verb "to chimpanz", with chimpanzee meaning one who is chimpanzed. This further extends to a agentive noun chimpanzer, one who chimpanz...
by Man in Space
12 Aug 2024 21:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Replies: 784
Views: 195920

Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

Khemehekis wrote: 12 Aug 2024 06:47Stay with Commonthroat! The board loves your conlang!
[+1]
by Man in Space
04 Aug 2024 04:02
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 927
Views: 236013

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

I was able to make it to the studio today, and I recorded some demos of some of the synths (two vintage Casio keyboards and a Moog Grandmother with three books’ worth of patches).
by Man in Space
17 Jul 2024 21:07
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Music of your conworlds/cultures
Replies: 24
Views: 2472

Re: Music of your conworlds/cultures

Musical equivalences across Máranhír (a continent on Íröd) tend to be quintave-based—that is, P5 equivalence is preferred over that of the octave (P8). The Tim Ar have a thirty-six-tone chromatic system (though your garden-variety diatonic scale only uses eighteen or so), while the Caber have a five...
by Man in Space
16 Jul 2024 14:47
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Replies: 166
Views: 126251

Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread

Khemehekis wrote: 16 Jul 2024 06:30
Imralu wrote: 15 Jul 2024 14:34
Khemehekis wrote: 14 Jul 2024 22:51 Wow, Imralu, those are quite a few coincidences! Sounds as if Hibuese has a lot of houmanti's!
Yes, but I don't know houmanti it has. 🤣
Note: Houmanti is the Kankonian EQC (embedded question conjunction) for "how many".
Impressive. Or should I say…imralusive.