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- 28 Sep 2021 18:20
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Well-Ordered State
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1487
The Well-Ordered State
The Well-Ordered State and it’s ideology The WOS is an attempt to explore what a modern, socially paternalistic (in the pre-WW1 sense with the Ruling class well, ruling on behalf of the Working and Serving classes) state with a powerful executive, which survived a World-War-equivalent and developed...
- 27 Sep 2021 03:51
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 460
- Views: 203042
Re: Jokes
A dog appeared and wanted a bone. Suddenly a bone disappeared from the owner’s leg.
- 26 Sep 2021 23:03
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Making a Music Culture?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 20243
Re: Making a Music Culture?
Maybe a scifi setting would place more emphasis on theremins, synthesizers, and multi frequency concerts from different species so they can hear music.
- 26 Sep 2021 22:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Food and Digestion in Conworlds
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1479
Food and Digestion in Conworlds
This thread is for posting about food (preparation methods, culture of food etc.) and digestion (digestive organs, processes) in conworlds
- 26 Sep 2021 13:09
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Korean transliteration
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2795
Re: Korean transliteration
Basically the new romanization was preferred because you could write it on English-language keyboards
- 26 Sep 2021 05:44
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
- Replies: 486
- Views: 179680
Re: Random Conworld idea thread
it seems a bit of a Marysuetopia to be honest, .... you said there'd be backlash but the way you write it up suggests that everyone's behavior just happens to fall in line and there's neither any great opposition to the system nor are there people who take advantage of it. what if i kidnap someone?...
- 26 Sep 2021 03:23
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Tema de conversación español/castellano | Spanish Conversation Thread
- Replies: 670
- Views: 258127
Re: Tema de conversación español/castellano | Spanish Conversation Thread
wn is short for weon, noun, which means all of friend, enemy, person, human, dude, fellow and man and more. it's just a generic vocative here. apañar, verb, to accompany, support and/or come with someone. in the reflexive voice (apañarse), it means 'to make do' or sth. de pana is a recent borrow fr...
- 26 Sep 2021 03:19
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Tema de conversación español/castellano | Spanish Conversation Thread
- Replies: 670
- Views: 258127
Re: Tema de conversación español/castellano | Spanish Conversation Thread
Estudié español en escuela por cinco años y puedo hablar un poco. La lengua novalatina en LTTW es derivada de español plateño y latín. Por ejemplo el título del Líder de “Humanidad/Las Zonas Liberadas” es “kapud” desde latín “caput”. O “Konkursum ad kultura” (revolución cultural) O la frase “Publazo...
- 26 Sep 2021 03:03
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: 中文 | Mandarin Conversation Thread
- Replies: 219
- Views: 343577
Re: 中文 | Mandarin Conversation Thread
也算着讲国语的。因为国际政治和同化的问题我分离自己从“华侨”忽而“老中”的代表。
- 26 Sep 2021 02:09
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
- Replies: 322
- Views: 88323
Re: What are you listening to/watching?
Steven universe music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDTD24KsdGc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDTD24KsdGc
- 26 Sep 2021 01:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
- Replies: 322
- Views: 88323
Re: What are you listening to/watching?
Adventure Time is good, as is Steven Universe
- 26 Sep 2021 01:25
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25191
Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Mandarin heavily uses disyllabic words to the extent that a fluent speaker neng fenbie butong de ci zhiyong mei dai fuhao de hanyu pinyin and compounds of two disyllabic words collapse into one disyllabic word e.g Oumeng from Ouzhou lianmeng
- 26 Sep 2021 01:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Weird Dream Thread
- Replies: 310
- Views: 142083
Re: Weird Dream Thread
I dreamed that I was in a lake or near a lake, and there was a former classmate I recognized with waist-length hair in braids and I grabbed onto one of her braids as I got out. Pointlessly sexualized dreams.
- 25 Sep 2021 22:55
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
- Replies: 486
- Views: 179680
Re: Random Conworld idea thread
The underlying ideological system resembles the scenario of a "National Conservative Germany" below but with added realism (and the fact that such a conformist society breeds backlash It is the plethora of non-governmental (often religious) community organisations that are mainly responsib...
- 25 Sep 2021 21:46
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
- Replies: 486
- Views: 179680
Re: Random Conworld idea thread
I just created the definition for that term. I didn't add the term's definition in my first post in that thread
- 25 Sep 2021 21:31
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
- Replies: 486
- Views: 179680
Re: Random Conworld idea thread
What is “istraty”? The modern State's attempt at making power relations between individuals and communities as explicit as possible[0] - these are groups that one is born into*. The state's philosophy (never officially articulated) is that equality between people of different ranks and ascribed sta...
- 25 Sep 2021 20:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
- Replies: 486
- Views: 179680
Re: Random Conworld idea thread
Merging the tropes of the warrior-monk and the scientist-dictator, I propose a hypothetical elite administrative class of soldier-scientist-monks* equivalent to the scholar-bureaucracy of Imperial China. *they are not officially inspired by any religion's monastic practices -- the state is officiall...
- 25 Sep 2021 18:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Simpyl Inglysh (artlang)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 843
Re: Simpyl Inglysh (artlang)
Morphology English has the following inflectional affixes -ing-s -ed-er-est -‘s Simpyl eliminates all of them and uses optional periphrastic constructions instead. Nouns Nouns are pluralized using the optional marker <dem> The genitive case is indicated through zero derivation. E.g “the dog’s bone”...
- 25 Sep 2021 05:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Simpyl Inglysh (artlang)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 843
Re: Simple English (artlang)
Consonants /p b t d tS ts dZ k g/ <p b t d ch ts j k g> /m n/ <m n> /f v s z h/ <f v s z h> /r l j/ <r l y> Vowels /a e i o u ai au oi/ <a e i o u ai au oi> Why does it have /ts/ but not /S/? Does not sound very English. If things are however changed so much, merging /ts/ and /tS/ would delete POA ...
- 24 Sep 2021 00:41
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3385
- Views: 311044
Re: Romanization game #2
<p b t d k g>
<f v s z kh gh>
<m n>
<l y w>
<i u e o a>
Next:
/m n/
/b t d ts dz ṯ ḏ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g g͡b/
/s z ʃ ʒ/
/ʋ l j w/
/a e i o u ɛ ɔ/
<f v s z kh gh>
<m n>
<l y w>
<i u e o a>
Next:
/m n/
/b t d ts dz ṯ ḏ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g g͡b/
/s z ʃ ʒ/
/ʋ l j w/
/a e i o u ɛ ɔ/