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- 01 Sep 2019 11:24
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Deutscher Gesprächsthread | German Conversation Thread
- Replies: 272
- Views: 215704
Re: Sprechen wir Deutsch!
Offenbar nicht: Ach, was muß man oft von bösen Kindern hören oder lesen!! Wie zum Beispiel hier von diesen, Welche Max und Moritz hießen; Wilhelm Busch Max und Moritz Viele Reime dieser Bildergeschichte wie „Aber wehe, wehe, wehe! / Wenn ich auf das Ende sehe!“, „Dieses war der erste Streich, doch ...
- 31 Aug 2019 15:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Discussing basic vocabulary
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8279
Discussing basic vocabulary
This thread is inspired by the thread The Landau Core Vocabulary . I'll give the LaTeX version, because it is too much work to apply bbcodes. Feel free to copy it and compile it on your own computer. Then you'll get the number of the choosen concepts. This number might change during the discussion. ...
- 30 Aug 2019 15:42
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Deutscher Gesprächsthread | German Conversation Thread
- Replies: 272
- Views: 215704
Re: Sprechen wir Deutsch!
Georg "Weh" Busch sagte: "Selten wird die Frage gefragt: Lernt unsere Kinder?" Also "lernt" deines Landes Kinder jetzt? Offenbar nicht: Ach, was muß man oft von bösen Kindern hören oder lesen!! Wie zum Beispiel hier von diesen, Welche Max und Moritz hießen; Wilhelm Bus...
- 16 Aug 2019 15:12
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Octal numbering system
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3373
Re: Octal numbering system
Here is a little Turbo Pascal program doing decimal to octal and octal to decimal conversion: (* oct dec conversion 16.08.2019 *) TYPE numberstring = STRING[14]; FUNCTION DezOct ( v : Integer ) : numberstring ; VAR q : Integer; (* quotient *) VAR r : Integer; (* remainder *) VAR s : numberstring; BE...
- 15 Aug 2019 09:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Octal numbering system
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3373
Re: Octal numbering system
Never seen this anywhere. My textbooks only had 1010.eldin raigmore wrote: ↑15 Aug 2019 09:08 Normally the base is written out as a word in the orthography of your meta-language.
For instance we’d say “base ten” not “base 10”.
And 10ten not 1010. ...
- 14 Aug 2019 09:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Octal numbering system
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3373
Re: Octal numbering system
Or number systems in general, other than decimal... Can anyone explain, or point me in the direction of a good explanation of octal numbers, please? I'm working on a language and I want it to have an octal numbering system. Thank you in advance. Are you working on a number system for a spider cultu...
- 01 Aug 2019 09:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Landau Core Vocabulary
- Replies: 116
- Views: 58788
Re: The Landau Core Vocabulary
What is your definition of "basic" here?
- 15 Jul 2019 20:33
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Are AIs alive? Do they have souls?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20734
Re: Are AIs alive? Do they have souls?
Provided an AI does have a soul, what would follow from that for humans? For the human soul?
- 15 Jul 2019 20:24
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 751
- Views: 455376
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The sedative case! It marks the indirect object a medicine (direct object) is given to.eldin raigmore wrote: ↑15 Jul 2019 20:16 I’m so excited, I might have to go to my medicine case and take a sedative!
- 30 Jun 2019 13:41
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656130
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What are realistic reasons for humans abandoning earth. I have an idea for a Terran diaspora, but I have been told that people wouldn't abandon earth even if it became a harsher place to live on because humans are stubborn. However, I don't want earth to be completely destroyed, and people leaving ...
- 28 May 2019 19:39
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 751
- Views: 455376
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Do you specifically need/want your characters all to be white? Actually, no! But the character is a fox who is captain of a sailing ship. There's quite a few Franco-African surnames with diacritics. Dembélé , for instance*. Less commonly, Kéréku (as in the president). Or you could go the whole hog ...
- 13 May 2019 12:01
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 751
- Views: 455376
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks sangi39 and shimobaatar! In Wiktionary, the results I got showed very few accents. Maybe I got results for French names in German. Ménétries -- you mean Ménétrier? -- would be quite good, it just means "fiddler" (A witch fiddling around with magic?) Côté -- would be perfect, but is ...
- 12 May 2019 14:52
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 751
- Views: 455376
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm searching for a French family name to name a character (a capitain of a sailing ship) in a short story. The name is required to have one or two (or even more) french accents (acute, grave, circumflex, cedille). I searched in naming sites, but the names given only seldomly carried accents, even w...
- 01 Feb 2019 09:13
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: underused settings in world building
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14447
Re: underused settings in world building
Giant spiders playing a positive role or having a positive attitude towards humans and vice verca.fruityloops wrote: ↑31 Jan 2019 14:45 not gonna state my thoughts about this one. just wanted to ask you guys what ideas or settings are underrated in fantasy.
- 12 Nov 2018 10:36
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 751
- Views: 455376
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I don't know if this belongs here but I wanna ask, in my world, the main races are mainly humanoid arthropods of different kinds and a few of them can produce silk. what impact would this have on society? Depends on how much silk they produce. If it is much, then they also need much to eat. As far ...
- 23 Sep 2018 17:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2043761
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Judging by Wiktionary, the vowels in göttlich and Öl have an un-trilled /r/ tagged onto the end in Standard German. Having fronted [o→ø], does Dyoan need the trilled /r/ in words similar to ᴀʟꜱɪɴᴅᴏᴇʀ? Although I don't hear anything rhotic in " göttlich ", the audio Wiktionary gives for &q...
- 09 Sep 2018 15:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: British Romance Language Collablang
- Replies: 522
- Views: 156349
Re: British Romance Language Collablang
gokupwned5 wrote: ↑09 Sep 2018 04:00
78) What should be the fate of /y/?
c) It should stay /y/.
79) Should Middle Brettaniot retain Old Brettaniot noun cases?
a) Yes.
81) What should be the fate of /ɲ/ and /ʎ/?
b) /ɲ ʎ/ > /nj lj/
- 02 Sep 2018 13:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: British Romance Language Collablang
- Replies: 522
- Views: 156349
Re: British Romance Language Collablang
74) It is 1066 CE, and the Normans have successfully invaded Lundein, Dygnunia, and Gwynedd. How will this territory be divided? a) It will all be unified under the rule of William I (Guigleum I in Old Brettaniot) as a single kingdom. 75) Should /f θ s/ become voiced between vowels? b) No. 76) This...
- 17 Aug 2018 09:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: British Romance Language Collablang
- Replies: 522
- Views: 156349
Re: British Romance Language Collablang
52) What should happen to the noun cases of Old Brettaniot? a) All 3 cases will be retained. 53) What should be the fate of /y/? b) It should become /ɨ/. 54) What should happen to unstressed /u/? a) /u/ > [ə] 55) It is 850 CE, and the Vikings have established the Danelaw (Dane Leie in Proto-Brettan...
- 16 Aug 2018 21:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New Weekly Indo European Collablang
- Replies: 182
- Views: 35390
Re: New Weekly Indo European Collablang
71. How should we derive a medial connective conjunction? a. From PIE *h₂énti (Like English "and") 72. Wh-fronting a. Obligatory for all such words 73. Inflection with numbers a. Nouns are still inflected for case and number when modified by a number 74. Develop words for "yes" ...