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- 15 Mar 2024 02:56
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193837
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Btw, I feel like now is a fitting time to ask, what does the last part of your signature, "31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!", mean? Good question! It's an old joke/meme that started with a comment from Tanni (a now-banned user) in a conversation here: https://cbbforum.com/viewt...
- 15 Mar 2024 02:25
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193837
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Guzhiet Blahatz na Zos!
Happy Pi Day!
Happy Pi Day!
- 15 Mar 2024 01:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 27
- Views: 835
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Oh, certainly! Several other people on the CBB are teenagers ─ Flavia and GoshDiggityDangit, I think, and Sketch. Edit: There's an account on here that is sketch , and one that is _Just_A_Sketch ─ I don't think they're the same person? The former said he was a teenager, and I think the latter is to...
- 14 Mar 2024 23:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 27
- Views: 835
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
And let's not forget that not every conlang or conworld teen-agers create is bad. I was a teen-age boy when I started Kankonian and Shaleyan, and invented the planet Kankonia and drew many of the sapient species of Lehola with their planet names. And Arayaz has done some impressive work (like with h...
- 14 Mar 2024 17:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 27
- Views: 835
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Personally, I don't hate Verdurian. I think it would be a pretty cool language if it weren't for just one thing -- namely, that this is supposed to be an extraterrestrial language, yet too many of the native words to be explained by a coincidence sound just like their equivalents in some well-known ...
- 14 Mar 2024 16:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282410
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I tried https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/? ... s&q=siever , and it lists "siever" only as a noun for a sieve-maker (and later, an eponymous attributive, with a capital S).
- 14 Mar 2024 15:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 734
- Views: 207154
Re: What did you accomplish today?
What I meant was, what was your 1000th word? Your 2000th? Your 3000th? I would expect they would have sentimental significance, and it'd be fun to see what realms of meaning they all belong to, so I wondered if you kept a list. Oh. Well, I didn't know exactly how many words I had until I cointed an...
- 13 Mar 2024 20:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 734
- Views: 207154
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Kankonian's lexicon size passed the 86,000 mark while I was counting all these new words. Word #86,000 was Grassipetla , a tribe of Kupulshas. Woohoo! Ever onwards you climb! Yeah. [:D] Do you have a list all in one place of each of your ’000 words? I have an English-Kankonian spreadsheet file, inc...
- 13 Mar 2024 20:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 734
- Views: 207154
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I've been adding a lot of names for human peoples/ethnic groups/tribes to Kankonian's lexicon lately, and to balance out all the Earth-centric culture words (I'm about to receive a huge list of English words through email), I've decided to flesh out the names of the languages that are attested on Ka...
- 13 Mar 2024 15:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 29
- Views: 873
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Laatiklantu was so cool. What happened to it? I noticed some things I had done with it that weren't very naturalistic ─ e.g. its word order. I also disliked how clumsy it was with all its required morphology. I plan to reflect at least some of its spirit in a future language; that was going to be I...
- 13 Mar 2024 15:13
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
- Replies: 322
- Views: 88405
- 13 Mar 2024 08:33
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
- Replies: 322
- Views: 88405
Re: What are you listening to/watching?
@Visions1: Are you Jewish? (My IRL surname is Landau, so . . .)
- 13 Mar 2024 02:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 29
- Views: 873
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Laatiklantu was so cool. What happened to it?
- 11 Mar 2024 04:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 734
- Views: 207154
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Created and named a bunch of rivers, archipelagos, and islands. Got 168 299 new Kankonian words out of it.
- 11 Mar 2024 04:16
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: See a penny, pick it up, All day long you'll have good luck.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8960
Re: See a penny, pick it up, All day long you'll have good luck.
The New York cartoonist Roz Chast once published a cartoon with variations. One was: "Find a penny, let it be/Someone may need it more than me". Another was: "Find a penny, walk right past/You never know who had it last".
- 09 Mar 2024 09:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12932
- 09 Mar 2024 07:15
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193837
- 09 Mar 2024 05:20
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193837
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I just ran SpellCheck (Corel WordPerfect's version thereof) on my LCV file. It caught three typos (such as "cbop" for "chop") but it needs to update its vocabulary. It's not too good with linguistics terms like "ergative" and "animacy", for starters. It trips ...
- 09 Mar 2024 03:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 645
- 08 Mar 2024 23:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: griushkoent conlang thread
- Replies: 98
- Views: 93760
Re: griushkoent conlang thread
Well, Kankonian sounds like Konkani! That's never bothered me, though.Reyzadren wrote: ↑18 Sep 2023 01:16On IRC, it was made known to me by CBB people that there is a natlang called Rumantsch Grischun.Khemehekis wrote: ↑12 Sep 2023 08:03Which natlang has a name that sounds like "griuskant" or "griushkoent"?