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http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/VG%20Logography/vermesv01_zps5fe24660.gif qvr̀ʔ - Worms grv̄rʔ - Squid (Kinesis) Attributed to Kinesis for flying squid . grj́rʔ - Bristle Worm (Metamorphosis) "Worms with legs", or similar projections. Represented by a velvet worm. Attributed to Met...

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The phonetic components will be based on the animal and plant vocabulary, which gives me something between 392 and 512 basic phonetic characters ... so I'm guessing that (as is also done in Chinese) if the word for say "sky" happened to sound like the word for "walrus", it might be written with a c...

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http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/VG%20Logography/insectsv01_zpsb6490f63.gif gŕʔ - Insects gr̀jʔ - Dragonfly (Kinesis) Dragonflies and damselflies. Attributed to Kinesis for speed. gv̄ʔ - Beetle (Metamorphosis) Beetles (coleoptera), excluding fireflies (lampyridae). Attributed to Met...

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http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/VG%20Logography/bearsv01_zps981bc5ea.gif hjv̀rg - Bears* hrr̀jn - Sea Lion (Kinesis) Represented by a Sea Lion, includes all the eared seals. hrr̄vg - Anteater (Metamorphosis) Represented by a Giant Anteater, includes the silky anteater, tamandua, an...

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http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/Anguipes/VG%20Logography/catsv01_zps838e2c93.gif nvr̀t - Cats ʔjŕjp - Cheetah (Kinesis) Attributed to Kinesis for speed. ʔr̀vt - Mongoose (Metamorphosis) Includes all mongooses (mongeese?) that aren't highly social. ʔj̄vt - Tiger (Crisis) ʔv́t - Lion (Anthesi...

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How long's Vana been around? I've not decided, but a 6,000 - 10,000 year range would be the obvious choice. Are any of the animals sentient? They all are, after their own fashion. The best way I can think of to describe it is like the rabbits in Watership Down - they're intelligent, they have their...

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What do you draw these in, Anguipes? Right now, my old version of Inkscape that crashes ever so often. Does the sequence that you've listed the 14 animal orders in also reflect a hierarchy? Are birds "higher" than insects, insects higher than bears, bears higher than cats, etc.? And within the bird...

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A Quick Guide to the Gods Kinesis (Q) - motion, travel, fate Metamorphosis (Q) - change, magic Crisis (Q) - force, war, overcoming obstacles Anthesis (A) - sun goddess, generosity, power, beauty Genesis (A) - creation (ex nihilo), life Nemesis (A) - annihilation, retributive justice Synthesis (A) -...

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Thanks everyone! I'm going with the single curved necks. Now I'm working on the cats. That's a tail in the background of the 2nd two, correct? :wink: No, it's a massive cock. Ithyphallic art for teh win. (...yes, it's a tail) I guess it'll be a lot of work if you're going to make 4373 symbols, thoug...

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I'm now interweaving working on categorising animals and making relatively detailed, "monumental" style drawings of each of the animals (or representatives of the "types", at least). Problem is, I suck at art :P The monumental style will eventually be stylised into something that will end up looking...

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Wherein I work on a logosyllabic conscript. Here follows a long boring section of theory/background. You can skip it and scroll down to point and laugh at my terrible art, if you like. The language this script is for is non-naturalistic, with a closed vocabulary of 4373 monosyllabic words covering a...

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The ZBB is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. No teaching is contained here. Your conscript looks like Tengwar. ... or, to maximise the chance of useful replies, post at whatever stage you feel a) you feel you cannot go any further and b) you ...

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Trying my current project. I'm not entirely sure if I got the answers to some of these right, and I've erred towards more European. 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar 2. Phonemic voicing 3. Two and only two parallel series of phonemes at each POA at which at least one s...

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I woz werkin on sumthin like that, and thort ov SimEarth. IIRC gettin it to simulate climeate only iz the problum, becoz it duz contanital drift tu. yu cant spessyfy plate shapes, detail iz v. lo, and the tools r diffycult to uze. wish I new hau the code werked so I cud addapt it. a long taim sins I...

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I had two vaguely planned for Menducia, Ceteri language(s) along the modified-humanlike-vocal-tract line, and a language for intelligent snakes that was communicated by head motions. For Vana Gloria I will potentially have to produce a version of a 14 "phoneme" universal language for (at least) each...

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Meh, then I'm wrong. Not that I find any of Tolkien's languages particularly harsh. Too polysyllabic, not enough consonant clusters.

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2+3 clusivity wrote:
CalebWhite wrote:harsh" sounds (anything further back than palatal that isn't a stop or a nasal) equaled coarseness, barbarism or downright evil.
Don't Sindarin and Quenya both have /x/?

Even the elves can be bastards sometimes.

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As many of you know, it is often said that "cellar door" is said to be the most beautiful phrase in English without regard to spelling or meaning. First of all, what makes {sɛ.lə.dɔː] or [sɛ.lɚ.dɔː] euphonic or phonetically aesthetic? Secondly, how could we, as conlangers, use this to our advantage...

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I confess, I ran into insurmountable.... stuff. I just cannot get my head around implementing the fluid dynamics, or even any of the libraries I could use. I suck.

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I just finished watching Prometheus. Many, many contradictory feelings.

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My method is, if your proto-lang is a tool, not a project in and of itself where detailed knowledge of grammar and word use is important: be fuzzy. That way you can pretend there are greater details under your simple outline. Apply a series of related concepts to a root as meanings, and give a grand...

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xxx wrote:
Torco wrote:
Elector Dark wrote:I lack a utensil for it, now that I gave it thought.
you can make one out of clay, you know. I recommend lining it with plastic so you can wash it without it coming undone.
I prefer using brain (and it can be washed too)

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Bestiality, anthropophilia, zoophilia, inter-species* fucking, whatever.

*or should that be extra-species?

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Why do so many ZBB threads devolve into bestiality?

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I fail at coping. Hence I am a barely functioning wreck. Maybe all this could have been avoided if only I had acquired a taste for alcohol (seriously, that stuff is foul).

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