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- 01 Feb 2025 05:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kalennian translation exercises
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3494
Re: Kalennian translation exercises
Welcome to the CBB, Cammzy !
- 01 Feb 2025 05:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Classical, Romantic, Victorian, and Jazz Music
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1601
Re: Classical, Romantic, Victorian, and Jazz Music
Thank you, @elemtilas !elemtilas wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024 05:11 Thought this might be of interest here:
Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik - string trio, Mozart
- 27 Jan 2025 03:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Foxcatdog's Scratchpad
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2131
Re: Foxcatdog's Scratchpad
Are all of your beastfolk more than 50% human, and more than 35% some other species (probably mammal)? or more than 50% some other (probably mammal) species, and more than 35% human? For instance; are otterlings >50% human and >35% otter? Or >50% otter and >35% human? …. I’ve assumed that “beast” ac...
- 27 Jan 2025 03:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The CBB Makes a conlang
- Replies: 131
- Views: 24956
Re: The CBB Makes a conlang
…. Head-marking means that grammatical information is marked on the head of the phrase, which in the case of a sentence is the verb. That means that information such as class, case, and even number could be marked on the verb instead of the noun. …. This post is meant as a clarification or elucidat...
- 27 Jan 2025 02:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Personality type
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3118
Re: Personality type
Cute! I don't fit either of those. More like "why am I being invited to dinner? Now I have to make up some excuse rather than just say I don't want to be here. And then end up saying 'okay' anyway so as not to hurt feelings; but then go home and collapse because drained." Or "Nice to...
- 27 Jan 2025 02:39
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: I must not fear
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4076
Re: I must not fear
I think Yoda from Star Wars might characteristically endorse this litany against fear, or some paraphrase of it.
Maybe I’ll try to put this in Yoda-speak!
Maybe I’ll try to put this in Yoda-speak!
- 27 Jan 2025 02:29
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
- Replies: 932
- Views: 497837
- 24 Jan 2025 00:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: LCC 11 - April 2025 in College Park, Maryland
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1236
Re: LCC 11 - April 2025 in College Park, Maryland
I won’t be able to attend. It’s too far away from Michigan. And I don’t have a car. And I need to retake a driving test.
- 23 Jan 2025 23:54
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 494
- Views: 234598
Re: Jokes
(Xing started a thread in the Translations subforum on “A man walks into a bar”.
So the question below occurred to me; but I shouldn’t post jokes anywhere but “Jokes”.)
I’d like to see or hear some completions of a story that starts out
“A man walks into an X-bar theory.”
So the question below occurred to me; but I shouldn’t post jokes anywhere but “Jokes”.)
I’d like to see or hear some completions of a story that starts out
“A man walks into an X-bar theory.”
- 23 Jan 2025 22:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: River Skasti (new grammar)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 20176
Re: River Skasti (new grammar)
….. ….. ….. ….. ….. Look here https://books.google.com/books/about/Number.html?id=7jc-pgAFcE0C . Something similar to your “tripartite” plural system might be attested by one or more of the languages Corbett discusses. Hey, Eldin, I was always meaning to ask, could you point me to the exact article...
- 18 Jan 2025 19:32
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Conlanger stereotype poll
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91557
Re: Conlanger stereotype poll
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. Se...
- 17 Jan 2025 16:26
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Philosophy Thread
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6390
Re: Philosophy Thread
…. Some people …. can actually rotate an object in their mind and see how it looks. They can picture the skeletons of a dinosaur moving and imagine how the dinosaur walked just by looking at each bone and the angles at which they're connected, for instance. …. Although I think I can visualize three...
- 16 Jan 2025 06:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Philosophy Thread
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6390
Re: Philosophy Thread
I’ve heard of them! And might there not be other types as well ?Khemehekis wrote: ↑14 Jan 2025 01:46 And at the other end of the spectrum is aphantasia. Aphantastics think entirely in words, not in pictures.
- 14 Jan 2025 01:25
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Soran
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5656
Re: Soran
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...
- 10 Jan 2025 19:50
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Philosophy Thread
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6390
Re: Philosophy Thread
Exactly, @Khemehekis!Khemehekis wrote: ↑20 Nov 2024 05:31Maybe Eldin's thinking about people like Temple Grandin?HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑20 Nov 2024 00:49Citation please???
(Also @HolyHandGrenade.)
- 09 Jan 2025 22:01
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Conlanger stereotype poll
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91557
Re: Conlanger stereotype poll
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...
- 08 Jan 2025 17:59
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Triple-Barreled Clan Names in Adpihi and Reptigan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 890
Re: Triple-Barreled Clan Names in Adpihi and Reptigan
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 ...
- 06 Jan 2025 21:32
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 494
- Views: 234598
Re: Jokes
[: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...
- 04 Jan 2025 22:32
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Triple-Barreled Clan Names in Adpihi and Reptigan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 890
Re: Triple-Barreled Clan Names in Adpihi and Reptigan
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...
- 04 Jan 2025 21:20
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 404587
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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. ...