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- 20 Sep 2022 02:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Indo-European Naturalistic Conlang?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1073
Re: Indo-European Naturalistic Conlang?
The #1 problem I've seen with PIE-langs is historical disconnect. This mostly takes one of two forms: either a lack of interest in the process of how a language could descend from PIE into the target form, or a lack of interest in context. The first often shows itself as a desire to hit an "end...
- 10 Jan 2022 03:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32916
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Amazing. Did not disappoint! I'm not sure which ring I enjoyed more, but I will never feel quite the same way when I hear a cow moo.
- 01 Jan 2022 02:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32916
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Does that mean it's done?!? I am so excited to see the results!
- 25 Dec 2021 23:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 294649
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Mostly consonantal syllables are unstressed. Mostly consonantal syllables don’t have onset clusters nor coda clusters. Mostly consonantal syllables don’t have both an onset and a coda. Most consonantal syllables are at most two phonemes long. In American English, the word "word" violates ...
- 18 Nov 2021 01:34
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Maps: how my countries and cities look like
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2865
Re: Maps: how my countries and cities look like
Say, that's really good! Not much else to contribute, but I like these maps.
- 02 Nov 2021 01:51
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: "Remix Earth"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3135
Re: "Remix Earth"
I once tried a sorghum beer because they were selling it for one dollar at a bar. It was probably the single most foul thing I have ever put in my mouth. It tasted like mud and porridge with an after taste of old pennies.
Re: Añoþnın
Came for the weird Papuan-inspired lang, stayed for the weird Arapaho-inspired lang.
- 24 Oct 2021 02:25
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: "Remix Earth"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3135
Re: "Remix Earth"
Just a personal experience, but I really don't like sorghum. The idea of a sorghum-and-bean malt slurry baked until it makes a dry, mealy "flatbread" sounds like a good way to dread every meal. But maybe the saffron makes it better.
- 23 Oct 2021 02:23
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: "Remix Earth"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3135
Re: "Remix Earth"
Very fun. The monsoonal grassland habitat is not a common focus for conworlding projects. If you get sick of sorghum sugar, palm sugar would also grow in these irrigated gardens.
- 19 Oct 2021 02:47
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The World of Einea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13645
Re: The World of Einea
So a southern California tourist trap?singing and dancing, bone-thin and desperate, in a hope that a visitor from another borough or abroad might take pity and throw a mezzevo.
- 18 Oct 2021 06:53
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: How NOT to Conworld.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 88160
Re: How NOT to Conworld.
Hooooo boy , lots to unpack here. One of my biggest pet-peeves (it isn't necessarily "bad conworlding" it just personally is unappealing to me) is when there are concultures that are very transparent analogues of Earth cultures. You know, you've got your fantasy Romans, your fantasy Norsem...
- 15 Oct 2021 12:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 910
- Views: 333661
Re: False cognates
I can't believe I didn't mention this one already, but English barley[/i] and Korean bori[/i] always felt pretty close to me. The stop is phonetically unvoiced, but still.
- 10 Oct 2021 08:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32916
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Forgive my ignorance, but who is going to translate the text from Old Wenthish and Epos back to Cambresc? No one will be translating the text back into Cambresc. The starting text is in English, which Jackk translated into Cambresc. Then who is translating the text back into English at the end?
- 10 Oct 2021 08:43
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 883
- Views: 280025
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
So to recap: 1) hnomn and nimi are related because they have multiple elements in common 2) all of those elements but /n/ may be jettisoned if problematic 3) if the remaining single element is insufficient to prove relation, re-introduce the jettisoned elements 4) if the re-introduced elements are p...
- 06 Oct 2021 05:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32916
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Forgive my ignorance, but who is going to translate the text from Old Wenthish and Epos back to Cambresc?
- 05 Oct 2021 05:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 883
- Views: 280025
- 04 Oct 2021 04:24
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Magical Economics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5802
Re: Magical Economics
I think this comic does a great job of demystifying how super abilities interact with real world economics. Of course magic users could be too precious to use their abilities for anything boring or menial. But then another social class of magic users might come along and supplant them. The tradition...
- 04 Oct 2021 03:59
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Imperial Statistics (NP: Wei through Chen dynasties)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17311
Re: Roman Emperor Statistics
I was surprised by these results. My understanding was that the western empire collapsed in large part because they couldn't establish a coherent method of succession, and so they were in a near-constant state of civil war. But this data suggests that the process of succession became more streamline...
- 04 Oct 2021 03:22
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 883
- Views: 280025
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
When I took Japanese lessons years ago, I was amused by the way Japanese kane 'bell' resembled German Kanne 'jug' - as if the Japanese used jugs for bells ;) You must have thought something similar about namae and Name . While we're in Asia, some Korean words for "river" and "liver&q...
- 30 Sep 2021 03:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
- Replies: 1180
- Views: 255625
Re: Con-Script Development Centre
The world needs more cuneiform-inspired conscripts. Nice work, Man in Space.