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Isn’t 1.4 Solar masses Chandrasekhar’s limit? At that mass the star will go supernova, wouldn’t it? And, don’t smaller-mass stars survive longer than larger-mass stars, as long as we’re considering only stars massiver than brown dwarfs? Chandrasekhar's limit has nothing to do with this; it's just a...

I dreamed my late ex-wife and I were trying to get my car fixed. For some reason the guy I was handing it in to, wanted to know our ages. I said, “I’m 50 and she’s 46”. He looked very skeptical. He turned to my ex and asked her. She said “I’m 67 and he’s 71”. I thought to myself “That’s right! Is my...

Subject: How many of your conlangs do you keep? lsd wrote: ↑Fri 17 Nov 2023, 13:25 eldin raigmore wrote: ↑Fri 17 Nov 2023, 21:05 lsd wrote: ↑Fri 17 Nov 2023, 13:25 for almost half a century I've been rolling in front of me the same boulder endlessly up... Around 63 years for me! on a single project,...

lsd wrote: ↑17 Nov 2023 19:25 for almost half a century I've been rolling in front of me the same boulder endlessly up...

Around 63 years for me!

The idea was that they work like Turkish ğ. a+ɰ -> a: ə+ɰ -> ə: i+ɰ -> ɨ(:) u+ɰ / u+w -> u: i+j -> i: But I think it's about morphology if the analysis is meaningful. If the glide emerges in some environments, probably before a vowel, it's meaningful to analyze it on the underlying level. Dluure Na...

…. * PIV sex between human adults, vs. …. By "between human adults", do you mean only sex wherein both partners are over the age of consent? Or do you just mean "sex between postpubescents" (e.g. sex between a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old in Texas)? One of those, not sure which...

I'm also considering if long vowels should be analysed as vowel + glide combinations. Maybe not all of them. But maybe all, or most, of them. Can most of your phonemic diphthongs be analyzed as a vowel which has been one or more ot the following; Post-labialized or Post-palatalized or Pre-labialize...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑16 Nov 2023 20:10 What are the first sentences you start translating when you have a new conlang?

Probably fiziwig’s conlanger-friendly subset of GSFA (Graded Sentences for Analysis).

lurker wrote: ↑16 Nov 2023 13:53 …
During the early days of yinrih society women filled the roll of shaman while men filled the roll of warrior.)

<role> not <roll>
That’s a nit; this whole thing is pretty good!

@Shemtov :
Whence cometh the name “Waanic”?
It seems somewhat similar to the name of an Australian Aboriginal language that is unfortunately recently extinct.

Woe to the tenth child, for he shall be Nameless. Not really! If the (say) tenth-or-later son’s father has enough uncles, and the son’s mother has enough granduncles, they can just continue the pattern already established, as long as they don’t duplicate a name of the father or an older brother. Or...

In addition to the benefits others have already mentioned, I have found that, when I expected two or a handful of features could go together in a natlang, but as far as anyone knows never have gone together in any natlang, by trying to construct a conlang with that bundle of features, I could find o...

@BobiBob, & @Ossicone : To me, if there is going to be a binary dichotomy of sexual acts, what “feels” most “natural”, is: * PIV sex between human adults, vs. * Every other kind of sex. That’s subjective, and is not based on any study of cultural diversity on this topic. So, my subjective “feeli...

I know I've mentioned this before but I still find it amusing. The first verb is samal . It is used for man on top sex. Esem apja. e-sem apʲa 3m-sex.PST 3f.ABS "He had sex with her." The second is atjural . It is used for woman on top sex. It is considered the more neutral of the two. (So...

Welcome to your first post on CBB, josbrod96!
And good morning! You joined the bboard about an hour after I started reading it this morning!

I agree with what Veles just wrote!

Also: conlangernoob, it’s been about 9 months since we’ve heard from you about your conlang!
Last we heard from you on this thread, was February this year!
Do you have anything else to tell us?
I’m pretty sure all of us would be interested!

I wish you good health!
I also wish your computer “good health”!

...you may be interested in this: https://www.planetfuraha.nl/astronomy/seasonsb.htm and https://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/2009/01/cycle-of-cyann-3-last-of-rings.html https://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/2009/01/cyann-and-ilos-rings.html ...all are a good look at how rings impact a planet more nonleth...

@elemtilas: Read Re: Naming Practices Post by eldin raigmore » Tue 26 Sep 2023, 14:05 Correction Concerning Individual Anthroponyms in Adpihi and Reptigan below. …. Would you like to hear more about the contingencies? …. (What to do if strict obedience to the system would require you to name your ki...

I did it. I can’t say I was very successful. I also can’t say I can tell anyone how to do it. For me, the problem was not so much the course-work; instead, it was that I had forgotten how to be a sophomore! OTOH I was glad I did it. The campus was nice. Classes and labs were more fun than work. [edi...