The CBB

Alright. You made me smile!

Not a new word to me, but I recently observed ombre being used verbally in the wild.

Khemehekis wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024 07:05

Next update when you reach one crore!

Unless you can find a similarly cool number in some other system!

Now, let's not skip over a million!

Hah!

Find a cool number between a lakh and a crore!

I'm teetering between scrapper and sandboxer, I'd say. Depends how depressed I am at the time. I'm also a total perfectionist, but not quite in the sense presented here. Similarely for me. For most projects I used to be a perfect example of sandboxer, but now I become more and more a scrapper. For ...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024 13:14 Elemtilas! Now you can update this list: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4725

Happily done!

Next update when you reach one crore!

Unless you can find a similarly cool number in some other system!

Old Irish here, but I keep an eye out for other Celtic languages.

Man in Space wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024 06:25

Khemehekis wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024 02:25Wow, so you made that? Looks like an old video game!

Enjoy.

That's very spiff! Thanks for the link!

I don't have a philosophy. I do think Aristotle and Plato were headed in the right direction, but generally I find that philosophers grope in the darkness when the light is all around them.

@LinguistCat, @lsd, @elemtilas, and @ anyone else who decides to read this: My daughter will turn 30 in about a week and a half. And I’ve been 72 since February this year. So I’ll approximate that I’m 42 years older than my daughter. I don’t want to try to date anyone closer to my daughter’s age th...

So, for language invention, definitely a Former . Have been for years now. For worldbuilding, largely a Sparkler . I just go 10 or 20 years between colour changes. So you've typed yourself! I know you've always been a conworlder first, like me, but you've abandoned the linguistic aspect now? I hope...

(( I'm glad to see this place is still open! ))

So, for language invention, definitely a Former. Have been for years now.

For worldbuilding, largely a Sparkler. I just go 10 or 20 years between colour changes.

Overheard a discussion as I was getting on a train in London yesterday: a polite but clearly exasperated older American man was exclaiming "but if this is the right platform, this must be the right train!", while a long-suffering London girl was trying to explain, and I quote, "there...

It's a pleasure to know this history. How much of the old websites remains? Or its communities? Pretty much all gone. Usenet is still accessible, I believe, but has been rubbish for decades. Obviously, Conlang-L is still going strong. I'm not sure if all the Auxlangers flamed each other into non-ex...

(for a similar question, see this thread: http://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7993 ) I’m 72 and a widower. I’ve been thinking about getting back in to dating. What’s an appropriate lower age-limit on which women I should ask out? 36 ? 48 ? 54 ? What's the context here? Things like religion, culture...

Vreleksa, apparently.

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024 04:30

elemtilas wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024 04:24 Woohoo! You're getting so much closer!

I sure am! Do you want to update The CBB Census for 97,500 words, or are you waiting until I reach a full lakh?

I'm waiting for the full lakh!

I was trying to wean myself off of Reddit last year, looking for replacements for subreddits I frequented. At the same time, I was looking for a place to post about my recently created monkey foxes. I just googled "worldbuilding forum" and ran into a stack exchange question asking about c...

Kankonian has just reached 97,500 words (!!!) with shivukhyak , a noun meaning "globulin". Shivukhyak was made from shibhu , the Ciladian verb shibh , to need, plus the third-person-singular present-tense verb suffix -u , and khyak , salt. "[It] needs salt", in other words, sinc...

Egerius wrote: ↑25 Jul 2024 14:15

elemtilas wrote: ↑22 Jul 2024 02:54 Will there be thylacines?

They have been there from the start! I just didn't mention them (way back in 2016).

That makes me happy!

We must raise a glass of the best Buonavalessian on 16 November, then!