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by WeepingElf
11 Nov 2024 11:45
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
Replies: 593
Views: 76054

Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)

Now that's an interesting critter. Thank you!
by WeepingElf
08 Nov 2024 15:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 2095
Views: 458897

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Anybody know of software or a website that allows you to very quickly enter arbitrary unicode characters? What I'm imagining is a site where there's an onscreen keyboard and a text box. When you click on any of the keys on the onscreen keyboard, it brings up a menu of unicode characters to choose f...
by WeepingElf
04 Nov 2024 21:11
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Some thoughts on the evolution of planetary systems
Replies: 7
Views: 304

Some thoughts on the evolution of planetary systems

I wish to discuss some thoughts on the evolution of planetary systems here. As you know, there are planetary systems that are unlike ours: "hot Jupiters", "super-Earths" and the like. Indeed, there are more of those known than systems like our solar system, because they are easie...
by WeepingElf
01 Nov 2024 15:47
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: The jargons of ham radio and the Internet
Replies: 2
Views: 476

Re: The jargons of ham radio and the Internet

Thank you for your answer, lurker.
by WeepingElf
31 Oct 2024 16:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Replies: 1000
Views: 238611

Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax

German has lots of quasi-minimal pairs where stress is either on the (directional) prefix or on the root and this changes the semantics. Here is an example (with stress marked by an acute accent.): um-fáhren around-drive 'to drive around s.o.' úm-fahren around-drive 'to knock s.o. over while drivin...
by WeepingElf
24 Oct 2024 14:55
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
Replies: 529
Views: 204146

Re: Random Conworld idea thread

What is sword and planet? A science fiction or fantasy subgenre, now out of fashion, about adventures on an alien planet with a low-tech society, such as the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I think I've heard it called "planetary romance" or at least that's what TV Tropes calls it...
by WeepingElf
21 Oct 2024 11:14
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
Replies: 529
Views: 204146

Re: Random Conworld idea thread

What is sword and planet? A science fiction or fantasy subgenre, now out of fashion, about adventures on an alien planet with a low-tech society, such as the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I think I've heard it called "planetary romance" or at least that's what TV Tropes calls it...
by WeepingElf
21 Oct 2024 01:24
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
Replies: 529
Views: 204146

Re: Random Conworld idea thread

Creyeditor wrote: 20 Oct 2024 23:27 What is sword and planet?
A science fiction or fantasy subgenre, now out of fashion, about adventures on an alien planet with a low-tech society, such as the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
by WeepingElf
19 Oct 2024 22:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
Replies: 375
Views: 59595

Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce

lurker wrote: 19 Oct 2024 22:40 What is a malifactive in this context?
The opposite of the benefactive, I guess: a case specifying who or what is harmed by the action.
by WeepingElf
15 Oct 2024 17:57
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Replies: 65
Views: 28760

Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics

Semitic? Ehhh... I guess with the ablaut and pharyngeals? It doesn't really make sense to me geographically speaking. Grammatically speaking - ehhhhhn, I guess? But you might as well chalk it up to somewhere else. Of course, I am not sure about that. There are some lexical resemblances between IE a...
by WeepingElf
15 Oct 2024 16:58
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Replies: 65
Views: 28760

Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics

I have a feeling I'm kicking a hornets' nest, but does this cast doubt on common views of Indo-European? (In other words a regular Tuesday, but still.) PIE phonotactics doesn't feel very weird to me, but that may just be due to the fact that my native language and most of the languages I am familia...
by WeepingElf
13 Oct 2024 19:41
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: The jargons of ham radio and the Internet
Replies: 2
Views: 476

The jargons of ham radio and the Internet

I am sure lurker can answer my question: How much ham radio jargon has spilled over into Internet jargon? I know hardly anything about ham radio jargon, beyond such items as callsign or QSO , which I am not familiar with from Internet jargon, but how much Internet jargon originates in the ham radio ...
by WeepingElf
12 Oct 2024 13:41
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fear and Loathing in the Evancyan Imperium
Replies: 14
Views: 964

Re: Fear and Loathing in the Evancyan Imperium

Khemehekis wrote: 12 Oct 2024 00:24 What's the meaning of the screenname "bimbjybern"?

Also, @WeepingElf: A cartgirl? Like Molly Malone?
No, I meant a catgirl. The <r> was a typo; I'll correct it.
by WeepingElf
10 Oct 2024 13:53
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fear and Loathing in the Evancyan Imperium
Replies: 14
Views: 964

Re: Fear and Loathing in the Evancyan Imperium

A planet of that size should be a gas giant and have no humanoid inhabitants. But perhaps I am just tooting the wrong horn and entice God to kill another cartgirl. Don't worry, the science will get much worse than this! [:D] It's just for fun, I've never cared to make any science behind it realisti...
by WeepingElf
10 Oct 2024 12:35
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fear and Loathing in the Evancyan Imperium
Replies: 14
Views: 964

Re: Fear and Loathing in the Evancyan Imperium

A planet of that size should be a gas giant and have no humanoid inhabitants. But perhaps I am just tooting the wrong horn and entice God to kill another catgirl.
by WeepingElf
07 Oct 2024 21:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: TBPO's Conlanging Scratchpad
Replies: 51
Views: 5036

Re: TBPO's Conlanging Scratchpad

Why is 'sword' animate, but 'warrior' inanimate? Especially the latter puzzles me.
by WeepingElf
07 Oct 2024 16:22
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Backgrounds?
Replies: 13
Views: 1434

Re: Backgrounds?

I have a degree in linguistics and Latin (ancient languages and historical linguistics were my focus while in college), but I’ve been conlanging since I was 11. It was studying Latin in middle school that largely got me interested in creating my own language, and it was conlanging and language lear...
by WeepingElf
07 Oct 2024 00:02
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
Replies: 593
Views: 76054

Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)

lurker wrote: 06 Oct 2024 23:07 It took them 5 (Earth) millennia from the first written records to spaceflight.
It took us 5 millennia from the first written records to spaceflight, too [;)]
by WeepingElf
06 Oct 2024 23:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Underwater vocalization
Replies: 5
Views: 448

Re: Underwater vocalization

There is this awesome underwater music. Apparently, it is possible to sing underwater without blowing bubbles! This technique, whichever way it works, could perhaps be used to talk underwater as well.