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Ashmoonfruit, I bet when you were in school teachers sighed and rolled their eyes at your ~~~deep insights~~~.

Not really about actual conlangs in history, but as a hypothetical question. Assume we happen upon a previously-undiscovered language with extensive documents in said language. Though it's not apparent, this hypothetical langauge is a constructed language. Through available tools, is there any way o...

Strangely enough, we did call it that at our house when I was younger. For whatever reason, that fell out of fashion and we started calling it the vent. That may have coincided with us moving into a new house, now that I think about it. It's strange, because there was no significant difference in th...

I have two phonologies I feel like showing off. The first is for Lang6, with a WIP name of Eníš brűcedźȅ . This language is deliberately-weird, and also unstable. Basically, in the setting the language was in, a number of individual, bizarre features managed to conglomerate all at once. The prestige...

My world is a gas giant but it also contain magic and other stuff so it does have landmasses floating You don't necessarily need to resort to magic ( unless you want to ) for your planet to have rocky landmasses floating around. For a sci-fi setting, all you need is a bunch of extrasolar debris - c...

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I just finished making a barbecue sauce, a refinement of a previous attempt, which was also my first. This batch turned out well, very well in fact, so I suppose I'll post a rough recipe here. Mind, I made this batch for jarring, so following this closely will leave you with a lot . I have a almost ...

Cathbad wrote:Except for the eyeliner. The eyeliner has to stay. Even in the shower.

Perhaps he just opted to have an eyeliner-esque tattoo applied, and only really applies eyeliner when he has to have the dramatic eyeliner-and-tears-running-down-your-face look going on.

I used to wish I had straight hair, but then I learned to love what I had naturally. I've had long hair for 4.5 years now and it only gets better and better. My hair isn't naturally straight, but a shitty curly/wavy that doesn't look good at all. I straighten my hair whenever I wear it down. Here's...

I used to have that. Turned out my acne treatment was just bleaching my hair. I doubt it's that. I don't have terribly-bad acne, and I only occasionally apply any sort of acne treatment (maybe once every few weeks at most). Even then, normally my hair is in a ponytail and the parts of my hair that ...

Here's two pictures I just took as an example of a quirk of my hair I noticed fairly recently. http://files.byondhome.com/Popisfizzy/Pictures/me/blondestreaks.jpg http://files.byondhome.com/Popisfizzy/Pictures/me/blondestreaks2.jpg Those blonder streaks? They aren't a trick of the light or camera. T...

So I guess I'll ask a) faiuwle how the program is coming, and b)the rest of the ZBB if they'd be interested in me posting about my planned dictionary program. It would be somewhat different from faiuwle's, in that it would be web based, powered by PHP and so be more something people could integrate...

From the Scientology thread. Yes it is worse. I'd like to bring up bad comparison to the table. The Old Testament was compiled at least 2500 years before modern science. Modern science has disproved that, and even the Vatican has backed down on taking Genesis as scientific fact More to the point, Ge...