The CBB

OK, so my first romanization scheme used vowels, and I didn't like that because it gave the impression that this was a human-pronounceable language, and it used both capital <i> and lowercase <L>. My second romanization which I have been using for the majority of this thread simply removed the vowel...

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 fr...

I fear we may have to go the ZBB route of two-step verification. That’s two spammers in, what, the space of a week? More than two, and there's probably others I haven't seen. It baffles me that people go out of their way to QRM tiny sites like this when social media megacorps like Facebook Meta, Tw...

So it turns out a lot of software is case-insensitive, including Excel and anything that uses hyperlinks. I may have to redo the romanization for Commonthroat to get rid of the case distinction. Not sure how I'll do that. It needs to be easy to type and not look horrible.

It's been a bit since I updated the index in the OP. It is now current.

The Light is the most common title given to the being worshiped by the Bright Way. It is a non-contingent incorporeal entity possessing a will and intellect that exists independent of the universe, outside of spacetime, and is said to have brought it into being. It is neither male nor female. Posses...

Here’s an idea: what if stress in the pidgin is derived from volume in Commonthroat? Commonthroat has weak, strong, strengthening, and weakening volumes for syllables. I think the deepest stress goes in human languages is primary and secondary stress. Could be wrong, though. I also want to make thi...

Some ideas for Monkey Fox Pidgin (MFP or 🐒🦊🕊️) The language slowly grows among yinrih-raised humans, becoming well-established around 200 years after First Contact. It would be the first language of Sherman from the Multiverse Inn, for example. It's most prevalent on Hearthside, since the planet has...

How much do you plan to expand the YPA (Yinrih Phonetic Alphabet)? Well if I want to keep to my romanization criteria of no vowel letters and being easy to type, I have T, V, W, X, and Z to work with. Hisses cannot carry tone but they can carry strength and timing. There is a plain and a trilled hi...

Some other langs I want to develop at some point along with some tentative features Monkey Fox Pidgin: a creole language that first developed among humans raised by Claravian fostering orders on Hearthside. It consists of Commonthroat and Hearthsider grammar on top of mostly English-derived lexemes....

The Eschaton, or Omega Point, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the ultimate end state of the universe. It is the point at which the epistemological Realm of the Known finally fills the Realm of the Knowable and breaches the hitherto impassable boundary obscuring the Realm of the Unknowable, brid...

What’s the yinrih equivalent to social media? With the exception of their lack of libido and their less private bathroom habits, yinrih have the same social impulses as humans, so they have similar social media... if your conception of social media were frozen in the late 90s. The sort of rich mult...

After the War of Dissolution, the Partisans were still on the war path. The old Claravian hierarchy was laid low, but the Partisans wanted to make sure it could never rise again, and the only way to do that, at least if you asked the Partisans, was with the Partisans in charge of the whole system. T...

That’s cool/nice/heartwarming. I based this on an anecdote from a ham learning CW (Morse) from a class. The instructor made a small error when keying something (presumably not deliberately), acknowledged it, and continued. That small event helped give the student confidence since it showed that eve...

Well, I ended up like this by, This is gonna be difficult to explain, Organic recombination. And I was a public figure (basically the president), and was killed by someone, Probably the leader of the HaB or the xenophobic "Humans are best" Group. "Organic recombination?" Doug as...

Many offices in the Bright Way have a master-apprentice dynamic. Hearthkeepers have acolytes, Knights of the Sun have squires, Farspeaker anchorites have apprentices. All of these have a similar tradition when showing a newbie the ropes. While demonstrating a routine task, the master will deliberate...

qc (co)verb, preposition to face qcg /yip, short low strong whine, short low weak growl/ Noun Face (anatomy), appearance, look, superficial qualities qc qP from qc + qP (block, hinder) Verb To oppose an enemy rlnqK sBrK g qcqn rlnq-K sBr-K g qc-qn cut-DOG remove-DOG POS face-2 Imma cut yer face off!...

Here's a wind fruit rendered in Blender.

Here's another brainstorming post. [hr] Unlike humanity, the yinrih don't have a concept of native or indigenous peoples. This is especially true on worlds other than Yih which were terraformed from lifeless rocks and populated by yinrih from scratch. There are a lot of groups that appear to be unco...

“Hey Doug, have you seen this?” Cynewulf is holding Argenzu's laptop with the picture. Argenzu resumes sipping on whatever is left of his drink. "Attack the darkness!" Doug yips. "I haven't done any LARPing in over 150 years. Terraboos like me wanted to hang out with humans, and as y...