The CBB

Of course, Samantha T. Carter actually did blow up a sun once. Would she be able to pull rank here?

In political satire, it is very common to find a way to artfully mention multiple powerful/untouchable inanimates (time, sun, fire, tsunami etc.) to fill up the upper ranks and then speak of the emperor or a regional king in the lowest rank. Such a usage is allowed . One emperor tried to outlaw suc...

Reyzadren wrote: ↑23 Oct 2023 00:02 ^Nah, I don't think it's Bolt. It's a general social media site, but the preferred usage is more from metal bands (or what it seems to me anyway).

Oh well, I guess it's obscure knowledge lost to the void now and nobody here knows about it.

ReverbNation? SoundClick?

A priest, a minister, and a rabbit walk into a bar.

The bar is in Australia. The rabbit didn’t stand a chance.

łímo hero (shimobaatar, with a detour through Mongolian for "baatar") There's a lot of very interesting & impressive stuff here! Hopefully I'll have more time to properly read things over & comment on them soon, but for now I just wanted to express my appreciation for this. [:D] [...

I forgot the best part—the Nyarafolo system usually doesn’t lead to ambiguity, but occasionally you end up with amusing confusion. The resources the Boeses sent me noted a specific example that, without explicit tone markings, readers with no prior knowledge would be unable to tell whether John the ...

Thank you for providing us with the IPA! I thought of making an idea like this, a conlang inspired by African languages, but several letters using a dot to spell other phonemes. Which ones in particular? Or are you just going for a generic sense? Named Afrogbe I don’t know if it’s an issue, but ther...

It sounds like a male communal urinal to me.

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023 14:11

Knox Adjacent wrote: ↑30 Sep 2023 20:05 Betty left, but at least I can get back to conlanging more.

Who is Betty?

The spaceship from Alien: Resurrection.

Pagliacci walks into a bar.

Asked this at the Other Place, but figured it’d be beneficial to post here too.

I’ve never (that I know of) had this happen to me in one of my langs, but I could easily see it happening.

Üdj wrote: ↑08 Sep 2023 14:45

Man in Space wrote: ↑08 Sep 2023 06:26 My life.

Is it a funny one?

More like a cruel one, it seems.

My life.

What prompted the name change?

I’d like to request a guide to significant grammatical/syntactic/typological change, like how VO becomes OV, or how split or total ergativity develops.

qwed117 wrote: ↑23 Aug 2023 04:39an English-Conlang dictionary that contains only the words found in the text, homophones, and near-homophones

Oh that is devious…this is going to not so much go off the rails as somehow launch itself into orbit.

Keenir wrote: ↑21 Aug 2023 14:04

Man in Space wrote: ↑16 Mar 2023 21:47 The first new Caber logograms in like a year and a half.

My bad - I thought you said the Caber logograms are a year and a half old; I was about to congratulate them and you on the birthday.

As to the new ones - they're quite nice.

Thank you!

How does the grid work? Could you elaborate? So the Caber grid works like this: - The glyphic space proper is square, with twenty-four units therein (plus the starting edge on the left, which is considered zero). - Your first primary division is that of the quadrant. The center point is singled out...

https://i.imgur.com/ReNNNIR.png I've standardized how the glyphs are drafted: This is the basic grid on which Caber logograms are drawn. The blue lines are primarily used when you're drawing the head on a person, but they do have other uses (like when compressing a glyph to fit with a phonetic or s...