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ol bofosh wrote:Za'booz?
Is that alcohol?

Ke, 'Ethanol'
Yup, ethanol to be exact.

It could be like the Kaaba, and golems of various kinds go on a hajj to visit it :D Maybe? The religious comparison is rather inapt, since Golems don't do well with religion. If humans had and knew of the spot they all came from, I'm pretty sure most would want to visit it. I'm thinking like if we ...

Matrix wrote:For the golems, there is a black tower in the tile I chose, covered in symbols. This is where the golems come from. They have forgotten how to read the symbols or enter the tower, but they know it is very important.

It could be like the Kaaba, and golems of various kinds go on a hajj to visit it

Perhaps, due to an abundance of humor, they talk weird in front of the intrepid field linguist.

Mass Transitive Part of being an expatriate is to find creative ways to not eat the local food. It's not that I dislike Chinese food: far from it, I enjoy me some guōtiē. But sometimes I just want McDonald's, and they deliver over here, right to your door, and it's raining outside, and... ...I pour...

It is definitely in a less formal register. With those whom I felt I had to act with decorum, I'd more likely use "There was a man who...".

General/Western American reporting in with an affirmative about the "this" and "some" usages.

"I ran into this guy, and he <blah blah blah>"
"Some dude was in the hallway, dunno what he's up to"

Matrix wrote:Well, shit. Thanks, everyone. Didn't expect the Golems to make it to the top.

Makes me wonder what will be more prominent: Golems subjecting Humans or Humans subjecting Golems

Still Gettin' It Dropped it pretty abruptly last time, so let's resume: we were just about to do something interesting. So far, we've two basic constructions that are keeping their nose clean - the semantics involved aren't too tricky, and I've not presented anything particularly outlandish. But wa...

I didn't participate in the previous two steps. Am I allowed to join in now, or can I only watch now? My understanding of the concept is that each round of voting is open to all for submisisons, but the results of prior contests dictate parameters to follow. I didn't submit anything but votes in th...

I don't know how it works if I didn't submit a continent, so I'll post a range of squares in order of preference on Lyra: if they want the top pick, I'll defer to a lower pick. J-6r > K-6 > J-6 Humans & Golems living together (Coastal: maybe golems will go grab crabs on the seabottom, and people wil...

It is indeed a neat site: particularly considering its embryonic state it has a lot of features.

Mmm, I like how you're working out the semantics of your prepositions and particles rather than constraining them with set labels. This approach should make for a complex and intruiguing system. I also like the voice of these notes in general; they're full of personal comments and anecdotes and rea...

Basic Sentences Before we can get to the juiciest strategies for plopping appositive phrases in sub-relativized whojamacallits while referencing referents three sentences ago, we're going to need three things: -Some Kjáhida words, so we don't have half-glosses -Some typological decisions, so we can...

Whoa, Tibetan has a fierce script!

Thanks for the feedback so far! I'll try to address it all: I'm liking the general 'vibe,' the 'spirit' of what I'm seeing here. I think it will be interesting to watch this lang develop, and I look forward to seeing those killer Ps flying around. Thanks! /d k/ as plosive system...can't. I'd either ...

Ahoy! It's well past the point where I should post something about my new language of the past month. I've recently moved to China again, and (as seems to be a symptom) learning another language makes me want to retreat into conlanging. I'll be using this topic to present an unordered creation of th...

Although I don't feel qualified to plant a stamp of 'Naturalism Approved' on it, I think it'd be a neat grammatical wrinkle to add to your conlang. It seems that it'd increase the texture of the language, and make it feel more 'messy'/naturalistic.

And, of course, one can reference and creatively reapply ideas in one's works without cleaving to them personally.

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¿¡这是好玩吗?!
This is fun?!

普通话是很难
Mandarin is hard

Well maybe fiddling with the parent star could solve that? like, orbiting a brown giant that radiates heat but doesn't cast significant stellar wind, or maybe a blue star that's so luminous you have to stand quite away to not get broiled and so the wind isn't that significant ? True, although I don...

This bit from Wikipedia could make it a bit difficult: Several exoplanets have been discovered that are possibly gas dwarfs, based on known masses and densities. For example, Kepler-11f[1] has a mass of 2.3 Earth masses, yet its density is the same as that of Saturn, implying that it is a gas dwarf...

Having thought on it a bit more, there might be some scientific hope for a 'doable scenario' on a miniature gas giant. These are a class of such planets that, due to being much smaller, wouldn't sport nearly as violent of atmospheres. Indeed, they might not form the hypervelocity bands of clouds tha...