The CBB

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Oliel wrote: ↑14 Jan 2025 20:04 What this language is to express for, to mean ? Science ? bodylike talk ? Warrior speech ?

I assume it’s just for anyone in the conculture

I think the language should be head marking, with verb agreement but no case marking

Khemehekis wrote: ↑14 Jan 2025 01:37

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑14 Jan 2025 01:29 Is this coming from a Christian or other religious view?

Man in Space is a Ltheran, so it's probably coming from a Christian view.

Ok that clears it up.

The point remains that many people deny they believe in something simply because they ridicule the religious, while failing to realize they have their own religion-like beliefs. For my purposes I reckon ideologies as religion. I agree. I also see a similar thing with how the term ideological has be...

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Since we decided not to have any spirits or anything that means magic probably shouldn’t come from another realm. That leaves a few potential sources: 1. Souls 2. The earth itself, including the ground and ecosystems 3. Celestial bodies 4. Some magical substance; a plant, stone, etc 5. A mystical “w...

I am bad at maps but I would like to request an oasis close to some caves in a desert that is mountaneous but reasonably close to some potentially urban area. So in terms of the world map that would mean a mountain range in the desert near the coast of a body of water. The rest of the details can c...

Does anyone want to volunteer to make a map? Does anyone have any special map requests?

Verbs part 1 (the games begin!): Scottish Gaelic is a VSO language: “Tha mi toilichte” COP 1 happy /ha mi ˈtʰɔlɪçtʲə/ I am happy “Goid mi an drathais” steal 1 DEF underpants /kɤtʲ mi an̪ˠ ˈt̪ɾa.ɪʃ/ I steal the underpants However, with the imperfective construction, which Gaelic uses frequently, the ...

Can we make the same culture for the CBBlang and the CBBworld? That might be a good idea, but I’m afraid that might elevate one conculture as the “main conculture”, as opposed to having them be on equal footing. But only a problem assuming that everyone will be working on a different conculture wit...

What about renaissance or age of discovery? I feel like there’s a lot of interesting things you can do with that. Of course, whatever we pick obviously won’t be the sole setting. I actually forgot when I made these posts that this was the “CBB makes a conlang” thread and not the “CBB makes a conwor...

Of course, whatever we pick obviously won’t be the sole setting.

What about renaissance or age of discovery? I feel like there’s a lot of interesting things you can do with that.

Should we have magic?
Should we have non-humans?
Should we have non-physical beings?

Is each person a different person in the game, or do we all control the same person? Also, can you define “preexisting knowledge”? Do we know what certain plants or animals are, or what food is, or that other people exist?

I don’t know how common this is but my conlang has a closed class of prepositions which combine with nominal proclitics.
For example: sor “place” + or “at/on” = sor’or “in”

I think lots of noun classes would be fun

You can always have two scripts. Maybe yinrih created different scripts before they became a monoculture, or maybe a religious institution or government altered the original script to distinguish themselves, or just natural evolution.

Post etymologies in any language that you think are very interesting. “Wild goose chase” actually originated from a type of horse racing, where a bunch of horses had to follow a leader horse in a goose flock formation, and were judged based on their ability to keep formation. The modern meaning come...