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Thank you for all of that information. It was very helpful! I two more questions; how can I be involved in this online forum with you guys? I used to help this group working on a language called "honey..." - I forgot the last part of it but it was about five years ago and I do not know if...

Thanks. The language is fully documented and has a working grammar like verb conjugation as well. It also has its own script and cursive as well. I am about to type it up and make a book of it as well as a dictionary. Maybe one day I can present it at a language conference. When you say incorporati...

I found this very old webpage a few nights ago, .... I'm glad you were able to find the page! After reading your description of it earlier, I was curious whether it still existed. Looking forward to getting a better look at it later, but as far as first impressions, I think the Star Trek indicator ...

planet Mars is home to silicon-based lifeforms in a Choose Your Own Adventure book that I read when I was a kid. There was a large crablike creature that bumped into me and then ate me. CYOA isnt necessarily big on accuracy, though .... they were kind of hit or miss. After all, the fact that this s...

The fact remains that you've got in the Lehola Galaxy silicon life forms. Period, end of discussion. That's not a matter for debate To clarify: I have a vague idea of what the albhikar (the sapient species of this bioswath) will look like, and I've decided they'll be silicon-based, but I haven't th...

This is where science fails and where we need to engage creativity. Ignore the naysayers and continue your quest for silicon lifeforms, please! I think it's most unhelpful for folks to respond with "it's impossible" or "it can't be done". Especially when that wasn't even the ques...

Dormouse559 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021 17:01 It's nothing special to deal with Spanish food words in California.

Or anywhere else in the US! Paellas, tapas, carcinerias, taquerias, empanadas, adobos --- happily Spanish plurals also end in -s, so we have no trouble with them.

Italian is an interesting case, since the most common borrowings from it in English come from plurals. So when dealing with Italian loans, the question is not whether someone uses the native plural but whether they use the native singular. Not here! I'm not even sure what one would do with a whole ...

The piano they couldn't stop building.

Torco wrote: ↑09 Jul 2021 09:14 responsible pilots file their tusks

...and wear protective gear!

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021 09:04 I love this discussion and am low-key obsessed with sapient elephants now.

Reminds me much:

Algore Mortis … is this the name for the «Black Guardian of Spacetime» doppelgänger of the Inventor in question? [xP] Hmm. What of the White Guardian? Perhaps Tenon ? Interesting… because I learned during this chilly Frost Solsticetide that algores was a Latin word for 'Winter Chill', especially wh...

To that end I'm sure they could handle seeds and nuts and stuff, but I'm concerned that at this point in history that I've worked on they're all semi-nomadic hunter gatherers, and for the most part a more structured society that can keep up with all the grain is necessary to make it all work, you k...

I’d also like to ask the forum how they feel about the Tembo practicing agriculture. They live in a habitat much like African elephants do now, which does not exactly come to mind when I think of agricultural fertility. But on the other hand as herbivores they would have greater benefits from the p...

teotlxixtli wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021 05:31 Do y’all think sapient elephants would domesticate oxpeckers? I just had a vision of a baby elephant girl taking care of oxpecker eggs in a little portable nest while the parents of the egg clean the baby elephant’s mother behind her ears

Sounds cute!

My son threw in his two cents and came up with • εσχατόφονος < eschatophone "final voice" (!) Well, there you are! You've been dreadfully, sorely missed! Tell your son that tuppence has got to be worth at least 850 Iranian rials! That's wonderful . . . eschatophone! Would sound rakish and...

Eine Kleine Gummihuhnes Musik.

Drew some creatures from the bioswath that includes such sapients as the lapans, the apiil, and the nuk. A chordologue phylum with four small tentacles around the mouth to pick up food; non-chordologue animals like the crustacean-ish kroovs; some planimals; many green plants; and a few green algae....

A fellow glossopoet in Belgium, Jasper Charlet, is working on producing an opera in his invented language, Carite!

Give it a look and perhaps support!

Have you noticed that "conlang" didn't make the list? (On the 30,000-word frequency lists I've received, including the most recent one (based on 175 million words), "conlang" doesn't even make the top 30,000). On the COCA list, "conlang" doesn't make the top 60,000, an...