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For me, it's the same world! Yeola-Camay.

Flavia wrote: ↑01 May 2024 13:55 elemtilas has returned! I must say I love your worldbuilding and writing. Reminds me of Pratchett and also Le Guin at the same time.

Oh wow! Thank you much Flavia!

I'm going to need help from someone who understands engineering. I came across the word "microplane" on the IGCE list. Wiktionary defines "microplane" as: (engineering) One of a set of microscopic planes, variously oriented, within a material, used in modelling stresses etc. Whi...

Egerius wrote: ↑25 Nov 2024 13:25 Is anyone here interested in a Conlang/Concultural Card Exchange, just like in the olden days?
Or has this died out completely?

Whoa. This is a blast from the past! I'd be interested.

According to the Grand Tack model , Jupiter migrated inward, bringing the accretion of the terrestrial planets (especially Mars) to a halt, before Saturn pulled it back outward, thus preventing Jupiter from becoming a "hot Jupiter" and saving the day for the terrestrial planets. I find it...

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...