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- Wed May 16, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12012
Re: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
Torco: oh, are you not a fan of Rossini ? [for full extreme, try this Tchaikovsky arrangement for piccolo and contrabass clarinets...] [honorable mention, from closer to your part of the world, for this Piazzolla arrangement , although the violin mostly stays out of the piccolo ranges most of the t...
- Wed May 16, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12012
Re: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
everyone knows the superior writing system is a syllabary-logogram mix, all else is shirking one's duty as conworlder Nonsense! Alphalogography all the way! Heresy! alphalogography is too much contrast! it is like playing a double bass over a piccolo solo without anything in between. I like this id...
- Thu May 03, 2018 2:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12012
Re: Writing system, not sure which one to use.
everyone knows the superior writing system is a syllabary-logogram mix, all else is shirking one's duty as conworlder
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:40 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317604
Re: Venting thread
and remember, you could take a page or two from English, or from this grammar of yoruba.Sakir wrote:Trying to make an analytic conlang, but all roads lead to Chinese. It's like the Simpsons.
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 1:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Re: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
Regarding the importance of max temperature rather than average, I found an interesting thing: if temperatures rise ten degrees or so, a lot of the US, such as Chicago, would be as physically uninhabitable as the Amazon or the Sahara. We don't think of such polar areas as hot, because on average th...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Re: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
I think this overall is a really neat idea, and even though the new map has significantly more habitability, it's in really interesting shapes that I wouldn't have expected. The big north-south swipe on the eastern continent seems like an excellent place for some interesting cultural interactions b...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:52 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Re: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
I like the idea of humans confined to compact little habitats, perpetually on the verge of natural disasters from which they cannot flee. I imagine some of these humans may not know that other humans even exist. Oh, absolutely, especially those guys living at the couple habitable mountain ranges ne...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:27 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
wet-bulb temperature
wet-bulb temperature(...) Yes! thank you, this is exactly what I need, though i'll have to do some work on climatology first (sadly the pics in the church of climatology thread are gone). But it's a solid way to expend the viable, habitable area of the planet. (...) wowzers! according to your link,...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Church of Climatology: App rumblings
- Replies: 110
- Views: 64066
Re: The Church of Climatology: App rumblings
oh noes! the hosting on the images has gone down.
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Life in the Colonies in the 26th Century (SF setting)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7711
Re: Life in the Colonies in the 26th Century (SF setting)
Well, I mean, unless you count the invention of FTL interstellar travel - that's quite a big thing. And instead of being powered by fossil fuels from under the ground, these societies are powered by hydrocarbons mined from outer-system ice planets... you know, the older I become the more I like thi...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Life in the Colonies in the 26th Century (SF setting)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7711
Re: Life in the Colonies in the 26th Century (SF setting)
drat, and here i was thinking 'hey! another one of the cool scifi thingies'
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 6:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: On Tetraploidy or Parasitism
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6960
Re: On Tetraploidy or Parasitism
Could the A generation be non sentient, but understood as the source of the B generation and the B generation takes care of the young produced by the A generation? They'd basically have an instinct to take in young even remotely similar to them, but this would also allow for a lot of genetic mixing...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Re: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
I'm not sure how you go about calculating temperatures - from what I've seen of real climate simulation, this is an extremely complex and contentious area. well, i'm not calculating them: what I did is more like guesstimate them out of real-world mean temperature maps of earth, which go from -30 to...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Re: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
The only image I can see is the one with the plates. Incidentally, on the plates, my understanding is that while there are fully oceanic plates, there are no fully continental plates; instead, just parts of various plates (sometimes large portions) are continental. I'm thinking of like, the North A...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Re: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
oh, yeah, I was going to ask if the pictures are getting displayed for anyone else: they're showing up for me but i'm hosting them weirdly
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10058
Lazarus, or on the determination of habitability
Phew! I just got a pretty satisfying burst of conworlding done and wanted to share: perhaps someone might find it useful, if anything else as an example of what questions to ask in this process, if not necessarily on how to answer them. Lazarus is the name of the conworld until i come up with a bett...
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317604
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
quickest godwin ever
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:38 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: purchasing power parity
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25330
Re: purchasing power parity
its not like i'm a big spender, but in my experience quality greatly increases with price when it comes to sextoys. in other news, a pack of cigs here now costs three and a half lucas, which is slightly below five euros or something like that, and real estate prices are nearly five times what they w...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 11:26 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: purchasing power parity
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25330
Re: purchasing power parity
consider that those numbers are almost a decade old
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:06 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317604
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
I was about to mock the veredict o eddying, deeming it too laxly applied: but then I read more carefuly and I must agree with the call
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:46 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13565
Re: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
hmmm... I've always been an apriorist, but perhaps its a young man's game (?) Its good to know that kids afford, rather than obliterate, opportunities to do leisure work: it's ever been my impression, probably irrational, that people have kids and their entire lifes get totally subsumed under parent...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:51 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97354
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
I thought farage and the brexiteers had gotten cold feet (?)
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:42 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13565
Age, Leisure Work and Motivation
Well, I'm 31. I was like 17 when I started making conlangs, and back then life was simple and leisurely: I had three months free every year, plus basically no responsibilities outside school, and school is stupidly easy. University wasn't hard either. But, as it turns out, being as old as I am right...
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:27 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9137
Re: Elections in various countries
I was outraged that he was even allowed to participate in the elections, but I guess that's South Asia for you. :-/ Meanwhile, Kerala AFAIK has basically been trolling the BJP and its allies hard and generally pissing them off. As soon as they started this BS about a nationwide beef ban, Kerala sta...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:15 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: climate change
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25317
Re: Zizekian We
@rotting >Right, and where are the refugees from Brazil going to go? I dunno, brazil is quite big. and I'm sure they'd be welcome in argentina, chile, uruguay, paraguay if it came to that (which it won't, brazil is colossally empty) I'm not claiming it's going to be cheap or painless, but its not go...