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Agnostics are those who chose not to worship deities. Terrism is an agnostic religion that relies on mortal magic. They believe that all deities are evil or indifferent and any contact with other realms is too dangerous. They live a life of isolation and abstinence as monks. They often do missionar...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑20 Nov 2024 05:31

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑20 Nov 2024 00:49

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑20 Nov 2024 00:45

lsd wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024 09:04 reality …(snipped to save space)…

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

Citation please???

Maybe Eldin's thinking about people like Temple Grandin?

Exactly, @Khemehekis!

(Also @HolyHandGrenade.)

1. Gender, cismale maybe I should follow opipik’s example. Following opipik’s example, maybe I should say: Gender (grammatical): roundish, squishy, and animate. Gender (psychosocial): In lieu of “cis”, maybe I should say: “I am both certain of my sex, and happy with it.” Sex (biological): Male 2. S...

Other Ways to Systematically Give People Unique Individual Personal Names Another way to give people systematically unique personal individual names, is used or has been used, in eastern Catholic countries in Europe. Or, at least, so I have been given to understand. Nearly every day of the year is ...

[:D] The "Persephone", "stirring", and "missile tow" jokes were superb! I also, like you, endorse “stirring” and “missile tow”. And I really appreciate finding out somebody liked my “Persephone” question”! _____ I think the jokes you’ve submitted, and the jokes about y...

Patronymics and Matronymics Not exactly related to the main topic, but sort of adjacent to it. A patronymic is a part of one’s name that tells who one’s father is/was. Or, rather, what his individual personal name is. A matronymic is a part of one’s name that tells who one’s mother is/was. Or, rath...

If analytic means analytic and isolating here, I have to say that I do not know of a single language that has neither compounding, nor affixation, nor some kind of tonal/mutation morphology. I don’t think mutation of consonants or vowels, nor mutation of the tones, violates analytic-and-isolating. ...

I have a very big problem with electricity in my house where the computer is connected. We have very old electrical wiring in the house. I don't know where will I be able to add the list for December and other monts. I'm writing this notice on my cell phone. 😩 I hope you recover safe electric power...

I’ve been thinking about the Spanish surnaming system in which everyone has two surnames. Their first surname is their Father’s first surname; their second surname is their Mother’s first surname. So the first surname applies to everyone in the same patrilineage; while the second surname is not tran...

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,...