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by elemtilas
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 ...
by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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

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.
by elemtilas
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 ...
by elemtilas
09 Jul 2021 15:41
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants
Replies: 35
Views: 4946

Re: The Tembo: A Race of Sapient Elephants

Torco wrote: 09 Jul 2021 09:14 responsible pilots file their tusks
...and wear protective gear!
by elemtilas
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

DesEsseintes wrote: 07 Jul 2021 09:04 I love this discussion and am low-key obsessed with sapient elephants now. [xD]
Reminds me much:

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by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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

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!

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by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
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....
by elemtilas
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!
by elemtilas
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...
by elemtilas
21 Jun 2021 02:34
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193802

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Khemehekis 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".)
pshsh

lousy lists

:roll:
by elemtilas
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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