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(( 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!

It's funny to me that in the old days the two big forums were called the CBB and the ZBB. The ZBB is very old ... Very old indeed! And yet ZBB / CBB are newcomers, representing about the 4th generation of online forums for glossopoets. Third . Before ZBB there were a number of services, such as Yah...

I've been thinking about reworking my old conworld, Rodentèrra , which some veterans here may remember. In some ways, it will be a little more similar to what I had in mind in 2014 (multiple fully sentient species, rather than some handwaved reasoning as to why some species are smarter than others)...

Thanks for your swift reply! It's from a video shot during our music rehearsal in an unfamiliar church And I used AI to strip out all the music so as to make it clearer … Hope you can help! It might help to show that part of the video in a couple different contexts. Like where does this happen in t...

Former . Language inventors who, for whatever reason, have either consciously set aside or unconsciously lost interest in the art. There was a time, from 1999 to 2002, when I wasn't doing any conlanging, nor conworlding. But I wouldn't call myself former. How about nonlanger : a non-conlanger who h...

Well, I don't have the 1,000 YouTube subscribers I'm hoping for yet -- "only" 241 so far. And my songs aren't getting played on the radio either. My ideas have yet to change the world. No one's ever performed my play "The Bittersweet Generation", nor made it into a movie. So I'm...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 Dec 2010 13:33 What type are you?

I have a new category for you:

Former. Language inventors who, for whatever reason, have either consciously set aside or unconsciously lost interest in the art.

People are weird about death.

Two things come to mind! First, we know that modern dogs and their various breeds all eventually derive from an ancestral wolf-dog. Think of the descent lines like one or more cone shaped cornucopias of many wires: sometimes the wires split off, sometimes the wires twist, sometimes they connect, som...

I'm curious Khemehekis --- are you successful?

Is it because of all that stuff, or in spite of it?

Also: what actually is success?

Should also note that I don't hold with pop astrology / individual astrology. There are other kinds of astrology that seem to work better.

Egerius wrote: ↑15 May 2024 17:03 What about...
Were-Thylacines?

I think they live down in the great Southlands beyond Carg.