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- 23 Jul 2021 16:32
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: How NOT to Conworld.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 87178
Re: How NOT to Conworld.
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 ...
- 19 Jul 2021 22:26
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Silicon-based life
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5226
Re: Silicon-based life
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...
- 19 Jul 2021 11:59
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Silicon-based life
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5226
Re: Silicon-based life
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...
- 19 Jul 2021 04:34
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Silicon-based life
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5226
Re: Silicon-based life
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...
- 14 Jul 2021 04:03
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Foreign Plurals used in English besides Latin and Greek
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3925
Re: Foreign Plurals used in English besides Latin and Greek
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.Dormouse559 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021 17:01 It's nothing special to deal with Spanish food words in California.
- 14 Jul 2021 03:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Foreign Plurals used in English besides Latin and Greek
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3925
Re: Foreign Plurals used in English besides Latin and Greek
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 ...
- 14 Jul 2021 03:42
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
- Replies: 322
- Views: 88376
- 09 Jul 2021 15:41
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4946
- 07 Jul 2021 19:02
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4946
Re: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
Reminds me much:DesEsseintes wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021 09:04 I love this discussion and am low-key obsessed with sapient elephants now.
- 03 Jul 2021 03:54
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Today I learned ...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 99936
Re: Today I learned ...
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...
- 02 Jul 2021 16:23
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4946
Re: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
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...
- 02 Jul 2021 00:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4946
Re: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
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...
- 01 Jul 2021 05:37
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4946
Re: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
Sounds cute!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
- 28 Jun 2021 05:15
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193802
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
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...
- 24 Jun 2021 19:14
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
- Replies: 322
- Views: 88376
- 23 Jun 2021 16:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 734
- Views: 207114
Re: What did you accomplish today?
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....
- 23 Jun 2021 15:53
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193802
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
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!
Give it a look and perhaps support!
- 21 Jun 2021 13:37
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193802
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
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...
- 21 Jun 2021 02:34
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193802
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
pshshKhemehekis wrote: ↑20 Jun 2021 09:05 Apparently "Lego" isn't among the 11,000 most commonly used words in English. (I see a few brand names, though, like "iPad", "iPhone", and "iPod".)
lousy lists
- 19 Jun 2021 16:30
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 193802
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
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