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by elemtilas
10 Aug 2021 15:01
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
Replies: 30
Views: 5521

Re: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?

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...
by elemtilas
10 Aug 2021 01:56
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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!
by elemtilas
10 Aug 2021 01:55
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: How NOT to Conworld.
Replies: 275
Views: 87287

Re: How NOT to Conworld.

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...
by elemtilas
08 Aug 2021 05:38
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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...
by elemtilas
08 Aug 2021 04:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347981

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

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...
by elemtilas
08 Aug 2021 03:59
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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...
by elemtilas
06 Aug 2021 17:33
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 194147

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

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 ...
by elemtilas
05 Aug 2021 16:06
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 194147

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

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...
by elemtilas
05 Aug 2021 15:42
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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...
by elemtilas
05 Aug 2021 15:37
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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 ...
by elemtilas
05 Aug 2021 02:31
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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...
by elemtilas
05 Aug 2021 02:12
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding
Replies: 29
Views: 6664

Re: Extroverts, introverts, dopamine, and conworlding

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...
by elemtilas
31 Jul 2021 23:18
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Ruritania
Replies: 3
Views: 2231

Re: Ruritania

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!
by elemtilas
31 Jul 2021 16:00
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Silicon-based life
Replies: 25
Views: 5247

Re: Silicon-based life

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...
by elemtilas
29 Jul 2021 15:38
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 194147

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

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.
by elemtilas
27 Jul 2021 02:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: My Introduction and Conlang
Replies: 17
Views: 2541

Re: My Introduction and Conlang

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 ...
by elemtilas
27 Jul 2021 02:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: My Introduction and Conlang
Replies: 17
Views: 2541

Re: My Introduction and Conlang

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by elemtilas
26 Jul 2021 21:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: My Introduction and Conlang
Replies: 17
Views: 2541

Re: My Introduction and Conlang

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...
by elemtilas
26 Jul 2021 11:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: My Introduction and Conlang
Replies: 17
Views: 2541

Re: My Introduction and Conlang

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...
by elemtilas
26 Jul 2021 01:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: My Introduction and Conlang
Replies: 17
Views: 2541

Re: My Introduction and Conlang

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...