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Salmoneus wrote: ↑11 Aug 2021 19:54
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I give up!

It's all honeywasps and bumblehornets from here on out, because, obviously, I have no way of distinguishing a bee from a wasp that you'll ever accept.

I'm not sure non-scientists have any way to distinguish bees from wasps. This I don't understand. Why can't non-scientists distinguish bees from wasps? Or do you mean something else? It's really not that hard. ...I already explained this. If you had, I wouldn't have asked for clarification. I think...

I'm not sure non-scientists have any way to distinguish bees from wasps. Indeed, bees in a sense ARE wasps - a wasp is any wasp that isn't a bee or an ant or a sawfly. Apparently you can identify wasps by their branched hairs, the bifurcation of the seventh dorsal abdominal plate in females, and by...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑09 Aug 2021 17:45

elemtilas wrote: ↑08 Aug 2021 05:38 Curious, though I couldn't find that term. I could only find Doktormutter.

?? Maybe I should have said “used to be” instead of “is”?

Search me!

I'll leave that to the Germanists!

Yeah, I wasn't expecting an answer from the OP. It's more a request for elaboration for anyone who read it and went "yeah sounds reasonable". 2011 was before my time here (I think!), but this thread keeps bobbing up to the surface like a chunk of ambergris and has been quite interesting i...

Well, I agree with you on that. Taking the word for "father" and creating the word for "mother", not with an M, but by adding a feminizing suffix, seems . . . . non-human. I could almost say "unnaturalistic". (Though as soon as I said it, I expect someone to shock me w...

Do most of you prefer using <k> as opposed to <c> to represent the /k/ sound in your languages? I've been thinking of using <c> in Arculese, in part because /k/ is pronounced more like /c/ before front vowels, but unfortunately whenever I do this Arculese starts to have, for me, a "Romance&quo...

Well, I agree with you on that. Taking the word for "father" and creating the word for "mother", not with an M, but by adding a feminizing suffix, seems . . . . non-human. I could almost say "unnaturalistic". (Though as soon as I said it, I expect someone to shock me w...

I for one think it's awesome [:D] I'm always impressed by intelligence and enjoy hearing about academic and intellectual accomplishments. It has to be more socially acceptable to talk about good things in our lives. It can't just be commiseration all the time. Indeed! It strikes me that people (in ...

I know news of attaining status there meets a negative reception sometimes. I…kind of feel embarrassed sharing it, like it negatively reflects on me that I’m like “Ooh, I’m in Mensa! Nyah-nyah” and that’s not how I want to come across at all. Kind of a Catch-22. Possibly cases of badly done sit-com...

That's even more introverted than I pictured you! Surprise? You do have some friends, though, right -- you just don't phone them? Do you have friends you know in person whom you speak with online (the way I met my friends Lamesha, Oneika, and Ellen in person and now talk with them on Facebook)? Yes...

I don't hate Esperanto, however, some people (generally of the n00blanger sort) think its biggest downfall is its accusative -n, whereas I would say Esperanto's biggest downfall is its male-as-default sexism. Curious. While I am extremely hesitant to throw around accusative terms like that, having ...

To the introverts here: How do you feel when you make some big-time accomplishment in conworlding? To answer your question, leastways for me, I don't really feel anything. If anything, I suppose it could be said that I "rest content with the work, though never quite satisfied with the result&q...

Anyway, to be back on topic, it seems that your link verifies what we observe. Members here seem to hate that auxlang because it isn't complex enough, however I hate it because it is not simple enough.

And some of don't hate it at all!

Or maybe just one of us after all...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑30 Jul 2021 08:16 Question: Was the name Ruritania inspired by this?

Or by this?

Or by something else?

I hadn't heard of that! Ruritanian romance!

I had heard the name Ruritania in connection with ocean liners, though. Sounds like such a familiar name!

Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining this. And I suppose that means that most sapient species will be psychologically similar to modern humans Depends what you mean by 'similar'. It's certainly possible to have species who are on average very different from humans, to be sure. But not mystically dif...

Man in Space wrote: ↑29 Jul 2021 03:34 I’m a bit hesitant to post this lest I give off the wrong impression, but I am happy about it and I want to share: I have been accepted into Mensa.

Congratulations!

Though I really fail to see why you'd be giving the wrong impression.

But again, while this is the LCS' position, I can't find anything saying that that's actually the law. Of course, I never said there was any law regarding whether or not an invented language can be copyrighted. What I said was that Paramount was moved in some way to withdraw their claim to be able ...

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Regarding lawyers: You can read the pertinent legals here as regards what's been done in US law thus far. It's not that it's unclear in the US at least, it's just that the issue has not been ruled on. EU (and presumably peri-Brexit-UK law) may vary. Basically, nullum crimen sine lege. It's therefore...