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Sure you can, you just need a eyes in back of head spell. of course, that's not what the guy meant. Maybe something like 40/1 instead ? though that's... well... telescopic, to say the least. Hmm, dunno. Our need to keep focusing maxes out at about 20 feet (that is, 20 feet is about the same as infi...

How can you possibly get a negative visual acuity score? Having something higher than 20/1, or perhaps 20/0. AFAIK, having 20/1 vision would mean that what details a normally sighted person would see at 1 foot (meter?) away, you would see and make out at 20 feet (meters?) away. 20/5 means you would...

In any event, while I might like to call into the podcast, I run into the issue of time zones as well: I'm in Germany until October and probably not in the Eastern time zone until mid-December (at the latest, depending on if I can get a visa for France), and your recording/whatnot is on Monday morn...

You don't really understand religions, do you? Not that I care particularly, but it makes you look stupid. I understand them perfectly well and I know from experience that God is invariably described as some form of powerful sovereign. Expressions like "the Lord" and "King of kings" exemplify this....

New episode: Conlangery #09: Formality and Register

The Elegines tend toward minor to moderate congenital disorders (most genetic) rather than infectious diseases, including real-world disorders such as leucism ( lieugisme ) and myostatin deficiencies ( Adalbertijn lacertisme ). Vision sorcellerijk (lit. "magic vision"), a disease which runs in fami...

Tormiott: Me yarchadeni tior Ascamiunnaulist /mə jaɹxæ'ðəɲə tɕoɹ æs c amyn:au'list/ lit. You will be gifting warmth to the [result of the artificial good tongue]. "Conlangery" certainly was a challenge... miullist means language, which is made up of miul- (prefix), good, positive and list, (n) blad...

Maybe I should have just made it "Welcome to Conlangery." The whole phrase is murderous to get through reading from IPA. Yz gosei ekKavùtošetsa, fòãksei ùkavùtošewá ùkavkejošewá. /yz gOsej ek:avu_Ltos`{tsa, fo_La~ksej u_Lkavu_LtOs`{wa_H u_Lkavk{jOs`{wa_H/ PS: Please use IPA, I read it a lot better t...

I thought I would try to get some soundbites for the Conlangery podcast. If people would translate this text: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. and give me either a recording or a phonetic transcription, I might tag it on to the front of t...

I prefer the look and feel of synthetic languages but because I prefer a certain morpheme order (modifiers following their heads) and have a dislike of prefixes, I usually end up with isolating languages. My latest lang, Xuáli, is the only lang I have made recently which has any bound morphemes at ...

Last Bite disease Known as pirasiom sasa , Last Bite disease is a rabies-like condition that spreads by bites from infected animals to its victims. However, the disease is not quickly fatal as rabies is. Indeed, it actually causes victims to lose their teeth, meaning that they cannot spread the dis...

On the sliding scale between synthetic and isolating, English is closer to isolating than to synthetic, but not too far down the line, whereas Mandarin Chinese is all the way at the isolating end. At any rate, the grammar of Mandarin Chinese uses more bound morphemes than what was quoted for Englis...

Bristel wrote:Who is the third speaker on the podcast?

I know Ollock and Ossicone are one and two...

Currently our third host in William Annis. He's not on these forums, but he has his own blog, and he's active on learnnavi.org.

English only has 7 regular inflections: Plural -s 3SG Verb -s Present Particple/Gerund -ing Preterite/Past Participle -ed Auxiliary Negation -n't Comparative -er Superlative -est And a huge lot of derivational morphology. On the sliding scale between synthetic and isolating, English is closer to is...

I would love it if some more materials could be translated into English. I'd like to put it on our list to feature on the Conlangery podcast, but I can't find a grammar in English or much information than the lexicon you posted.

I call ANADEW on that preemptively. OK, I think this should be more sane than my previous draft (Warning: PDF). Also, yEd (with which I drew the PNG-file tree) is racist and geriatrist in lacking dark-skinned and old people icons. Yeah, I think you need to make it clearer where the Ego is. I couldn...

Inyauk's spelling is phonemic. Variation is greater with the vowels though. <some examples> Personally, I kinda like it. The down side is you need a fair bit of knowledge to read the words right. (Like where a glottal stop appears.) I actually did something similar to what Tepa does in Yeltax. /d/ ...

Took a look on Wikipedia . From what I can gather, the usual arrangement when there is more than two skins is for marriage to be much more restricted -- each skin only being allowed to marry one other skin, with their offspring being of a third skin. This probably keeps populations of each skin fai...

Took a look on Wikipedia . From what I can gather, the usual arrangement when there is more than two skins is for marriage to be much more restricted -- each skin only being allowed to marry one other skin, with their offspring being of a third skin. This probably keeps populations of each skin fair...

Torco wrote:Well Suenu is a cold place: even in the equator, near the coastline, it gets pretty cold, way below zero... say, -10. I'm not sure, but aren't bugs kind of bad at cold?

They don't much like it, true.

Since your conworld has a thicker atmoshere, I think it'd come down to the ratio of oxygen ( assuming that's what you conspecies breathe) in the planet's atmosphere. If you have a conciderably high ratio of oxygen your lifeforms could afford to have vastly varying levels of gracility or rubustness ...

Since your conworld has a thicker atmoshere, I think it'd come down to the ratio of oxygen ( assuming that's what you conspecies breathe) in the planet's atmosphere. If you have a conciderably high ratio of oxygen your lifeforms could afford to have vastly varying levels of gracility or rubustness ...

Since your conworld has a thicker atmoshere, I think it'd come down to the ratio of oxygen ( assuming that's what you conspecies breathe) in the planet's atmosphere. If you have a conciderably high ratio of oxygen your lifeforms could afford to have vastly varying levels of gracility or rubustness ...

Yes, things would be more gracile I know this is like the consensus, but I'm not sure its true. On earth, for instance, smaller mammals, which face a much smaller resistence/gravity, aren't very much more gracile than medium-sized things. for a smaller things gravity is les of an issue; ants can ge...

How have you got a thicker atmosphere with less gravity? Half the gravity should mean a far thinner atmosphere. Eh? Should we tell that to Venus and Titan? And Titan has even less gravity than this planet here. Of course, it is colder... The lower gravity would just make the atmosphere thin out slo...