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My first conworld was for a little story I wrote in which all the people involved were shapes. At least I think that was my first. It wasn't very fleshed out. If nothing else, at least it wasn't like Flat World where shapes were treated differently based on number of sides or the like. I was going ...

My first conworld was for a little story I wrote in which all the people involved were shapes. At least I think that was my first. It wasn't very fleshed out. If nothing else, at least it wasn't like Flat World where shapes were treated differently based on number of sides or the like.

If you just want tips on making islands look right, remember that a lot of islands are part of chains. If you have any continents these chains can be continuations of mountain chains going off into the sea. If not, then remember that they can result from areas high in volcanism. Either way, archipel...

I’m trying to make a map for a world that is mostly ocean. How do I make realistic-looking islands (using Inkarnate)? I don't know Inkarnate, but you should decide on some basic plate tectonics. Figure that archipelagos are going to pop up anywhere with a lot of volcanism, that said archipelagos wi...

I'm working on a map for the first time in a long while. Neither the north or south poles have land on them but there is land near both. Would that (possibly) be enough to form ice sheets or would I need to change things?

I have a copy of Tailchaser's Song , which I have owned for many years. It's packed away in a box in the attic, unfortunately, so I can't refer to it at the moment, but I am fairly confident that "C" and "S" were not reversed in the feline language; rather, "S" was sti...

In elementary school or so, I read a book called "Tailchaser's Song". It was a fantastic book for a kid who was very much into 1) cats, 2) myths and general fantasy and 3) relatively gory things. But something that has stuck with me from my pre-conlanging days was the cat language that was...

I can't help with Ahzoh's question but I suppose if I wanted to make a language just subtly more alien, I could break that pattern of accentuation, especially in my conlang based on a language that holds to it

Apparently, children who watch a lot of cocomelon (better described with the first two Os replaced with As) end up developmentally stunted from being able to speak - even at age 4. Why is this? Without being an expert on early language acquisition, probably because of a combination of the kids bein...

And as a side point: Does anyone even sing lullabies these days? Of course. It's a great way to calm (yourselves as) parents. I used to sing lullabies to my child when she was a little younger, or now if she wakes up at night and starts crying. But at this point she's pretty good at sleeping throug...

I went to Zompist Board. I saw that it's now Zompist Board Again and that it's now Register option. I decided to register, but I must answer a question about "secret code". What is it? What should I write to register? If you don't know, what should I do? I did have to search for it but yo...

/ə/ is inserted between any two consonants /ə/ > /i/ when adjacent to any of /pʲ t͡ɕ bʲ d͡ʑ ⁿd͡ʑ ɬʲ ɕ ʑ mʲ ɲ j ʎ/ /ə/ > /u/ when adjacent to any of /p p̪͡f b ᵐb f v m/ /ə/ > /a/ when adjacent to any of /q χ ʁ/ /ə/ > /o/ when adjacent to /ɫ/ /ə/ > /e/ elsewhere /ə/ does not exist in the language's p...

I don't know what it would mean to say the universe "doesn't exist". If it didn't exist, we wouldn't exist either and we wouldn't be here talking about whether it exists or not. Now, does it exist in the way we conceive of it? No, I'm certain it doesn't. Does it exist in a way we could con...

It sounds like the ultimate outcome you’ve reached is that the status quo fails in gold-standard countries, so I’m keeping that in mind in this post. Perhaps this would be just a historical footnote, but I think any currency-minting government would try to prevent that kind of upheaval. How exactly...

I'll assume that either this sounds completely and totally reasonable, so I'll consider this idea successful unless/until someone replies bringing up issues I hadn't foreseen here. Thank you everyone who took a look.

I have a science fantasy story where a form of alchemy exists. Transmuting other metals into gold (or most metals) has been figured out, but living things and their products (wood, amber, pearls, natural threads, etc etc) are extremely difficult to transmute in any way that's obvious or useful. I'm ...

How often do you create new worlds? How do know when it is time to make a new one? I tend to stick to a few worlds, sometimes reworking them when I have new ideas. But if the ideas I'm having don't fit any of the current worlds I'm working on, but I feel excited or passionate about the new idea, I'...

I'm going to count the bogolang I'm working on, so the most recent word I created is Salterday, the last of eight days in the Bodean international week.

How do cats settle disputes?

They hiss and make up.

That sounds like a reasonable way of going about it, and wish you luck in your search.