The CBB

We call someone fluent in English, an “Anglophone”;
we call someone fluent in French, a “Francophone”;
and we call someone fluent in Portuguese, a “Lusophone”.

So: what do we call someone fluent in Ancient Persian?
A “Persephone”?

Reyzadren wrote: ↑15 Dec 2024 23:08 Adding some favourable songs from this genre/time period.

Edward Macdowell - Summer Song (piano)
Soichi Konagaya - Lamentoso (baritone horn)
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 (acoustic guitar)

Thank you for those, Reyzadren!

I like this!

Finno-Ugaritic or Fenno-Ugaritic
What languages are in this group?
How can we tell they’re related?

lsd wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024 09:04 reality is only its perception and memory, and we fully memorize only what we name,
nothing exists but words, what has no word doesn't exist until it's named,
just change the words to change the world,
conlang yourself...

No. Some people think entirely in pictures, not words.

Can I post my althist on this subforum, if no, where can I post it? Alternative histories are conworlds, so you may post it under C&C. If you think it’s a good idea, you might start a sub-topic of C&C called Althists or Alternate Histories. Then anyone who has an alternate history can start...

Similar to Greek /hoplite/? Cn you explain it? Why is it called a hoplite? Yes, Greek hoplites are named after their shields. The term ``hoplite'' comes from the Greek word ``hoplon,'' which refers to the heavy round shield that these soldiers carried. Hoplites were heavily armed foot soldiers in a...

TBPO wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024 21:09

WeepingElf wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024 21:05 Why is 'sword' animate, but 'warrior' inanimate? Especially the latter puzzles me.

Oops... I did a mistake... Thank you! I already corrected it.

Similar to Greek /hoplite/?

In addition, I've set it up so that each language is stored under a (hopefully) unique and automatically generated ID, to prevent any accidental overwriting. You can guarantee uniqueness by using a UTC timestamp plus a language-counter plus a code uniquely identifying the creator and/or the compute...

Shostakovich’s 2nd Russian Waltz Why is Shostakovich’s 2nd Waltz considered Jazz? Is it just because it was composed after 1956? Is it just because it uses an octatonic scale? Is it just because it was for a time mistakenly thought to be part of his Jazz Suite #2 ? Assuming none of the above is the...

This thread is for discussing music of the Classical, Romantic, Victorian, and Jazz Ages, and any other ages between Classical and Jazz that I may have accidentally skipped. Although I originally intended music from Western or Central Europe, or from places colonized by Western or Central Europeans,...

My Physical and Occupational Therapists say that, in the exercises they’re currently helping me with (like getting up from a wheelchair or bed onto a walker), I’m now doing >50% of the work and they’re doing <50% ! (These are the same therapists who, at our last conference btwn patient, patient’s fa...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑06 Oct 2024 01:33 Even Aaliyah would've been 45 if she had lived this long.

Aaliyah of “the Queen of the Damned”?
Yeah.

Khemehekis wrote: ↑27 Sep 2024 14:41 Avril Lavigne turns 40 today.

"Sk8er Boi"

And Stephan Genkins turns 60 today.

"Semi-charmed Life"

Shit, that makes me feel old!

I've been trying to figure out how large Helssi colony ships are on both population and physical size levels. So far it looks like a minimum of 1,000 individuals and 190 acres/~0.3 square miles/~0.77 square kilometers, with most of the land and other resources used to produce food. While there are ...

Jimmy Carter is a centenarian now. He wants to keep going until he can mail his vote in. I, on the other hand, have no desire to live past 60. My ambition, since very young, has been to meet my grandchildren. I don’t think my daughter is likely to ever go to post secondary school; if she does I’d l...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Aug 2024 02:24 Eldinesque question: Is Lubbek spoken in Lubbock, Texas?

That question was on my mind; but I never intended to post it!

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024 02:01 Omg this is wicked. My worldbuilding is so tame.

What they said!
I want to follow this.

I'm curious, what is everyone's backgrounds in this field/interest? Mine? Wikipedia. I’ve been interested in it since elementary-school age. When I was in about the 3rd grade, my parents were sent as missionaries to south India. The community there was highly international, and had people from all ...

Okay, so there is still some confusion here: Plural agreement refers to the number of a certain argument, e.g. the subject, the object or the absolutive marked object. That's what people often gloss PL, usually also specifying the person, e.g. 3PL. Pluractionality on the other hand refers to the nu...