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- 26 Apr 2021 23:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Overcorrecting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1374
Overcorrecting
So, lets say a speech community differentiates certain vowels in some positions and neutralizes them in others. Some of these positions are important to grammar. Could a group of L2 learners that eventually have children that speak the language end up over-correcting so the vowels remain unneutraliz...
- 30 Mar 2021 04:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang word easter eggs?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 35804
Re: Conlang word easter eggs?
All you guys keep name-dropping video games and animes I've never even heard of, and then once one of you have mentioned it, all these other people join in the conversation as if they've heard of it too! Huh. A lot of memes were started by Portal, like "The cake is a lie" and a few others...
- 29 Mar 2021 23:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang word easter eggs?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 35804
Re: Conlang word easter eggs?
GLADOS, from the popular video game Portal
- 19 Mar 2021 13:51
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Designing Color words for your conlang
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4394
Re: Designing Color words for your conlang
If I have to come up with color terms for my “space centipedes” I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew. My humans see just like we do and I know which colors I want them to have basic terms for. It’s a rather numerous set; but I haven’t come up with the actual words themselves yet. I mi...
- 12 Mar 2021 20:32
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Weird Dream Thread
- Replies: 310
- Views: 142049
Re: Weird Dream Thread
It's interesting that while your dream is obviously Bible based, the rat and the ox are the first two animals in Chinese astrology.
- 25 Feb 2021 03:19
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 358518
Re: Other Creativity
Many of them look nice, especially for a first try. Although I wish you the best luck in achieving your goal.
- 20 Feb 2021 05:11
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Ame People - An All-Female Human Ethnic Group
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2636
Re: The Ame People - An All-Female Human Ethnic Group
I don't have much to directly comment on but I do have some to direct at Sal about parthenogenesis that he seems to have misconceptions about. I'm only saying this because I did a lot of research on parthenogenesis specifically and genetics more broadly for a nonterrestrial species I worked on a few...
- 07 Feb 2021 21:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347145
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is a pitch accent dependent upon syllable weight? It's been awhile since I last researched the concept, but I recall it being so in Ancient Greek. Does the same apply to Japanese or Vedic Sanskrit? In Japanese, it's generally seen as dependent on morae, so to some extent, syllable weight affects pi...
- 04 Feb 2021 22:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Evidentiality in non-humans
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1822
Re: Evidentiality in non-humans
Gratefully, yes. And while still different than humans, cats have much closer sensory inputs than between us and fish....
Whatever. Cats aren’t fish, and they live in air not water, so you won’t have that problem!
- 04 Feb 2021 17:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Evidentiality in non-humans
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1822
Re: Evidentiality in non-humans
[:D] I don't think in my case I'd use something similar but if I did, I might use that for my cats. ... Fish whose ancestors never lived on dry land basically have only two senses in the water; * sight * feeling/smelling/tasting/hearing I'd think it would be at least three: sight, feeling/hearing, s...
- 04 Feb 2021 00:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Evidentiality in non-humans
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1822
Re: Evidentiality in non-humans
You're right, I hadn't considered most of the things you pointed out Sal. Although I have heard that animals that are more scent oriented can often tell if a scent is older or newer, at least for things they're more familiar with. For example, a dog knowing if another dog marked a tree more recently...
- 03 Feb 2021 20:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Evidentiality in non-humans
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1822
Evidentiality in non-humans
So, humans tend to be seen on the whole as a visual and auditory species. Not that we have The Best vision and hearing, but that these are the primary ways we experience the world, when we don't have some form of disability regarding these. Scent is powerfully connected to memory, but we don't have ...
- 14 Jan 2021 08:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Funny language notes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2569
Re: Funny language notes
Not so much funny as sad... On my own FrathWiki page I have under Facenda: Font for Queranaran done! ✔ Make a font for Avantimannish Make a font for Loucarian Sadly, neither of those other fonts has ever gooten made. There's always another day to work on them, assuming those aren't defunct at least.
- 13 Jan 2021 17:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347145
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
... My knowledge about Japanese is very limited, but I have understood that Japanese /i/ and /u/ are extra-high (and thus often devoiced). Extra-high vowels often make adjacent plosives aspirated/fricatives. Any fricative can be easily lenited further as far as zero. Proto-Bantu also had extra-high...
- 13 Jan 2021 03:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347145
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
A change like /t/ > /0/ before front vowels or back vowels. wouldn't be expected to just happen. Of course, with intermediaries it's always possible. I'm wondering if I could work with on of: /t/ > /?/ > /0/ /t/ > /θ/ (> /h/)? > /0/ /t/ > /s/ (which would merge it with already existing /s/, but tha...
- 12 Jan 2021 21:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347145
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Japanese had a lot of /k/s disappear at one point of its development, especially before /i u/ (tho /k/s were reinserted before /u/s in most dialects, or some verbs and adjectives had forms with a /k/ and forms with it dropped). Question: could there be a similar sound change for /t/ in some language...
- 11 Jan 2021 19:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Funny language notes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2569
Re: Funny language notes
These brightened my morning :3 I wish I had more of my old notes on hand but they're buried somewhere.
- 10 Jan 2021 22:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Funny language notes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2569
Funny language notes
I found a short note to myself about my goals for Nyango, my Japanese-based cat language. These two amused me: Different greetings, not a question. And ... Long /r/, LONG /r/ DAMMIT. What funny notes to self have you made for your languages. I'd especially like to see ones that are odd or striking o...
- 24 Dec 2020 19:42
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
- Replies: 116
- Views: 112485
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Mandarin shíjiān 時間, meaning time. I'm not actively learning Mandarin but I've considered picking it up, and I'm learning a bit of Classical Chinese for a project.
- 21 Dec 2020 18:53
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656120
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So far I think I have the following things down: Frēdauon will have started out as a waterworld that somehow lost water after some time. There might not be plate tectonics. Volcanoes should be rarer in general, as they happen only where coal deposits are available (but where does coal come from?). ...