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- Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:23 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 145508
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:25 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 433130
Has anyone thought of translating a Tintin album into their conlang? You probably don't remember civman2000, but he was working on a translation of The Black Island -- I don't know exactly how far that got because he never showed me the whole thing, only one page at a time as exercises when I was t...
- Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:27 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 145508
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:34 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
I decided to finally make my mind up and get down to it, nearly a year after my first post in this thread :) so without any further ado, here are the Arêndron kinship terms. A brief note of explanation. As I said in my earlier post, this system grew out of a culture in which brothers commonly remain...
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 880841
- Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:18 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 145508
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:22 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Nabret? Almee
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2971
Sigh. There was a server shift a long while back that messed up the encoding, so a lot of really old posts now have question marks instead of accented characters (as you can see if you look through the L&L Museum, particularly the Correspondence Library). Was there any need to respond to an 18-month...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:53 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Triconsonantal Root Systems
- Replies: 201
- Views: 155474
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:30 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 636832
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:42 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 145508
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
The people descend from pre-Imperial nomads. "Old Testament" (patriarchal times, especially) Hebrews, and Islamic-ascendancy Arabs, are the best-known RL examples of nomads; and they were quite patrilineal. That's just filler though, not to be taken as gospel. I know much less about the Proto-Argun...
- Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:16 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
As I recall yours is highly patrilineal and patrilocal, not to say patriarchal. Yes, though perhaps less so in Imperial/post-Imperial times than in the Argundran period, and I do want to develop my kinship system as far back as the Proto-Argundran roots. (Still, I'm curious where you're getting so ...
- Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:57 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
If you choose a kinship system that goes with matrilineal and matrilocal society, you obviously should consider having your society be mostly matrilineal and matrilocal. It definitely isn't, and I'm not sure what I said that made you think I was choosing that type of kinship system? I'm even more c...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:31 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
Nuntar: unfortunately, it's hard to integrate into writing for an English audience. Terms like 'father/uncle', 'cross-cousin' and 'mother/aunt/cross-cousin-on-the-uterine-side' are hard to make make sense to normal people, I think. Family is one of the things people really struggle to see alternati...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:57 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
Can I point out to everyone that the Eskimo system that we use, with father/uncle contrasts, cross-cousin/parallel-cousin mergers, lack of distinction between agnatic and uterine uncles and aunts and so forth, is only found in about 10% of human societies, and generally only high-tech or very-low-r...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:40 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
Everyone please note I've added some " EDIT: " text to my original post. It could clear up some confusion, (or, on the other hand, it could be quite unnecessary; you tell me! :) ) The clarification about "godfather" etc. was unnecessary. When I said my people don't have the concept of godparenthood...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:15 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118322
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:22 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: the Old Granny thread
- Replies: 624
- Views: 188174
- Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:31 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 182575
- Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:51 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 182575
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:55 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Elcari question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2042
I think it's more likely Raphael meant breathing.......zompist wrote:Also, and not to disrespect interspecies differences, but they're not known for frequent bathing. In a cold, dry mountain environment, this doesn't cause problems, but in the humid lowlands it can lead to stinkiness or even sickness.
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:42 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Updated Verdurian street scene
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12071
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:18 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Elenicoi and Naturalisation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6172
It's no worse than immigration from a country with an unrelated language. You don't quite get the problem, Zomp: Xinux has been going on about this on #almea, simply refusing to believe any of the anecdotal evidence we provide that people really can move to a country where they don't speak the lang...
- Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:55 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
- Replies: 113
- Views: 86953
[*]Two bilabial approximants /B_o/ (Zhen Lin and Nuntar), two unrounded velars /M\/ (JQP and Kuvdamos), one uvular /R_o/ (Dingbats). Kardii is actually Nortala's. I didn't state this explicitly in the thread (perhaps I should have done) since I thought it was well-known. I was answering for her bec...
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:25 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Verdurian Alphabets
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9830