I Lorik wrote:Well, as with many things in Tûdav, these preservation techniques are a mix of magic and non-magic (in this specific case, embalming). Because magic doesn't last indefinetely in Tûdav, the preservation techniques do need to be renewed periodically, but they last a pretty long time (50 or more years, depending on how powerful was the mage who last renewed the spells).
Understood; as noted, the presence of magic does make a big difference. Thank you for your explanation!
Jackk wrote:I may not have, actually—it's a Latinisation of the Quechua kay pacha "this world, as opposed to the worlds above and below"; more about which see
this wikipedia article.
I have read only a little about Inca cosmology, and I found this article, and the related article on
Yanantin, to be quite interesting. Thank you for sharing!
shimobaatar wrote:I hope things are alright now, at least relatively speaking.
Thank you, shimo! We have fortunately been less affected by the inclement weather than some people in our area (our neighborhood lost power and heart for several hours at one point, but it was restored by that night), and I was able to return to work the following day.
Oh, I think I see what you mean. I know how easy it can be to get a bit stuck on even seemingly small decisions like these.
Indeed; as I said, this language has technically existed for a long time, but what little progress I have made on it has been intermittent and incremental, and it remains in an embryonic state. My participation in Lexember this year has probably been one of my most productive periods to date.
Best of luck to you, and I hope to see more of Chusole in the future.
Thank you! I would like to pull together and rewrite the few scraps of Chusole that already exist; if I can make further progress, I may be able to put together enough material for an initial post on the language, perhaps sometime later this year (fingers crossed).
(As noted, one of the stumbling blocks (apart from the greater stumbling block of lexicon-building) is the verbal morphology, which may be a bit kitchen-sinky; I have had some basic ideas about marking verbs for, e.g., person, number, formality, polarity, tense, and voice, as well as nonfinite verb forms (a verbal noun/infinitive, participial and converb forms) and verbs of motion (primarily verb-framed, rather than satellite-framed), but I have struggled to work out any of the details, and I may be over-complicating matters. As my wife pointed out, even person and number marking is not mandatory, although at the time I began Chusole, it was what I was most familiar with.)