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tikoo wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021 20:39 A universal language need be easy to learn.
Free of homophones.
With simpl cahnsistent fo'netik repre'senta'shun.
Can tell an absurdly funny joke.

An Idist, a Poliepsist and an Esperantist walk into a bar.

Tarot. A thousand year old dream from China.

orichalcum (an imaginary metal) Actually I've heard a theory that orichalcum may be: A. An otherwise unattested dialectal word for "electrum", that became known as a mythical metal by Plato's time or B. If the story has non-Greek sources, one may have described electrum as "mountain ...

There's a religious language from Africa referred to as The Royal Language. I first heard it from a singer and kora player who had learned it in the South Georgia Sea Islands (USA). He sang with the sound of baby babble. I think the story of that area is a slave ship grounded there, and so that's w...

Dooz your conlang suggest rhythm? gkt My 3S has dialects with various vowel/consonant choices. Angelic, for instance, likes to have vowels that sing. Some work better with rhythm than others. Not all musics and not all languages are strongly rhythmic. And yet other musics and other languages are rh...

Boka B wrote: ↑27 Sep 2021 12:30 My bro!
Considering the fact that I hardly ever use jargon on Internet you can be sure that you are indeed my bro!
Enjoy your life and all the best!
Have a suuuuperior day!

Boka B

I quit .sigs a while ago; but I do like yours!

An identifiable tonal system does not have to be all that important. A natural music is freely associative. A psychic and sympathetic connection from one life to another is essential. By this a musician may inspire a squirrel to laughing and dancing. This is true. There is a music being played now,...

Enjoy your life and all the best! Have a suuuuperior day! Boka B Please stop that. If you really want to attach this to every post, you can add it as a 'signature' in your profile... So, is there now a rule against manual signatures? If there's no House Rule specifically forbidding this practice, a...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑23 Sep 2021 16:48 I lurk.
Soon I may contribute.

I hope so! You might be able to speak to mercentaur architecture, and millions of other architectures across your invented oecumene.

Habitus of Body, Mind & Spirit Are any of your peoples tall and thin? Are they short or squat? Do they have wings? Are they semiaquatic or aerial? Are they half humanoid half zebroid half paravian? A race's basic shape and form will impact architecture as well. Winged people will not get along ...

Worked, wreaked, wrought. What are the similarities and differences? Which are correct and which incorrect? I think wrought is becoming a new / alternative past tense / participle of wreak. Usually we find wreak / wrought in conjunction with havoc. Both wrought and wreaked can be found with havoc; ...

Googling octagopeds turned up nothing -- they must be a Yeolan class of creatures! Are they molluscs? Indeed! The shallow seas beyond the Eastlands in particular are chock full of such creatures! It would be a marine biologist's dream! Or nightmare, depending. It's not Diznee's little mermaid down ...

'Twould be fun to think about polyhedrons as well. Truly, a conlang is not complete until one has a word for all manner of DnD dice. https://skullsinthestars.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/alldice21.jpg?w=584&h=438 ...why does this image include a d120 but not a d100. Although I have polygons from...

Canadian dollars? I did not know that. And you're welcome for the link! In the most recent word list my friend made from his corpus, "pentagon" ranks as word #4,462 (no doubt because of the military building in the U.S.), "octagon" is #20,418 (maybe articles about wrestling?), a...

tYay. Compounds that have a more specific meaning than their components occur in many languages. Think of English blackbird - not every black bird is a blackbird. I know this is off of the subject we were discussing, but The "windows" that is "Microsoft" should be translated int...

As you'll see, I have pentagon, hexagon, octagon . . . but leave out heptagon, enneagon, decagon, hendecagon, and dodecagon as too uncommon for a core word list. I mean, when was the last time you talked about hendecagons? Well, Canadian dollars are hendecagonal, so I am certain it's a robust lexem...

And also apparently misspell Geroge Carlin, at no extra cost! [xP] Worth the price of admission to see two posts from you! Interesting to note that, in a curiously distant part of some world or other, there is an entirely inoffensive and everyday household article, a brass oil lamp in fact, known a...

Does anyone know of any demigoddesses (female demigods) in mythology? Does anyone know of any demigod with a mortal father and a divine mother? The Font of All Knowledge has a nice list, too! Right off hand, I can see Achilles, Turnus, Kabundungulu, the sons of Laun Sina, Bhishma, Apo Anno, Gwydion...

Oo excellent! An update!

For now, all I can say is that we'll need a bigger fly swatter!

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑12 Aug 2021 00:36 Was the OP question ever answered?

Hehe!

I don't think so! Thread got hijacked by an emerald wasp.

At least I learnt that honeybees came over on the Mayflower!