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- Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:33 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The West Saxon Scratchpad (Formerly the West Saxon Thread)
- Replies: 136
- Views: 35999
Re: The West Saxon Thread (Now Showing: Stress!)
Herra Ratatoskr's West Saxon has me pondering what the effects would have been had the sons of Canute the Great reigned for longer and thus a Danish dynasty had come to rule England and Scandinavia for a more extensive period of time (say, early to mid-1000's thru the 12th and 13th centuries, prehap...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
- Replies: 117
- Views: 24768
Re: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
I have actually sketched some ideas for a reformed spelling that almost satisfies me. The main problems lie in how to handle that pesky schwa. I have not yet found a way of writing it that really clicks for me. One the one hand, I have tried assigning the sound to an existing vowel letter (either "...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
- Replies: 117
- Views: 24768
Re: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
In my opinion, it would kind of take away from English to reform its spelling and make it regular. It has rules, as Zompist proved. Maybe I should have worded that. A great deal of English spelling has rules, but due to the borrowing of many words, the rules might as well be invalidated. Apart from...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
- Replies: 117
- Views: 24768
Re: Yet Another English Spelling Reform Thread
Has anyone ever considered a spelling reform that marks stress? Not that I have seen. Ey secund ðat. Ðe problem wiþ Ingliš speling rieform is ðat deyulekts difer tue muč; it bikums a mater of čuzing wič wun tu yuze az a baesis, and ðis nesisaerili miens exkluding uðers. A lot of vaerients ðat siem ...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:15 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Effects of higher gravity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8094
Re: Effects of higher gravity
Ever hear about Korpiklaani? "Wooden Pints" is my favorite song by them.
Anyway, yes, some handwavium is required to make my story work. This is a fact of Sci-Fi, especially the hybrid Space Opera-Cyberpunk universe I'm leading the creation on.
Anyway, yes, some handwavium is required to make my story work. This is a fact of Sci-Fi, especially the hybrid Space Opera-Cyberpunk universe I'm leading the creation on.
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:11 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Effects of higher gravity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8094
Re: Effects of higher gravity
This is a concern that I have had with my conworld, since I plan on having humans (biologically compatable, able to interbred producing viable and fertile offspring, thus human but not "terran"). Perhaps I don't wish to deviate too far from Earth norms.
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:28 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: A History of the Future
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10816
Re: A History of the Future
Hans Rosling? I'll give it a look next time I'm at the library, college or community.
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:26 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: A History of the Future
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10816
Re: A History of the Future
And how is the situation with trains in the late 21th? Has a tunnel under the Bering Strait been constructed?
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:57 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: A History of the Future
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10816
Re: A History of the Future
I have a question for Sal: Have you, for your future history, given any thought to the return of animal power as a low(er) cost alternative to automobiles for short distances and light utility work? I am inspired by your work and I might incorporate elements of it in a group project I'm involved wit...
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Flags
- Replies: 396
- Views: 82564
Re: Flags
Mesner Fields, or so I'ven been told, can be employed that way.
- Sat Dec 25, 2010 1:51 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: A History of the Future
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10816
Re: A History of the Future
I've heard him characterized as black on TV or something, but I defer to the perspective of a stater. I, myself, find him blackish. Going off the Wikipedia pictures, I'd say he looks white. Blackish facial structure, yes, but he's pale enough to override that. The term used to be "pass-for-white". ...
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:43 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: A History of the Future
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10816
Re: A History of the Future
I actually find most of Sals predictions plausable except the sudden and violent fragmentation of India. I would have expected, I don't know, India being used as a proxy by Canada and the US (maybe Russia and the EU as well) against China (or perhaps the Russians and the EU ally with China instead. ...
- Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:28 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: A History of the Future
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10816
Re: A History of the Future
I'll be looking it over in greater detail but a total lack of a space elevator was most striking. Or talk of a tunnel under the Bering Strait (allowing travel from Paris to New York by rail inside of a week to compete with rising airfares). But I guess the later contradicts the weakening of globaliz...
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:41 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Labial to Dental sound change question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5211
Re: Labial to Dental sound change question
Eh? That is a vowel, we were speaking about consonants.Nortaneous wrote:I'm not ɘntirɘly surɘ what you think you're doing.
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Labial to Dental sound change question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5211
Re: Labial to Dental sound change question
That looks like four phases of sound changes. Definately not something that would happen "over night". Definitely not. It'd probably take several centuries to complete; I think that's how long the Slavic /k/ > /ts/ palatalization took, anyway. But as long as it doesn't katamari up any existing phon...
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Labial to Dental sound change question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5211
Re: Labial to Dental sound change question
That looks like four phases of sound changes. Definately not something that would happen "over night".
/ts/ is, crap, I ought to know this one.
/ts/ is, crap, I ought to know this one.
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:16 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Labial to Dental sound change question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5211
Re: Labial to Dental sound change question
I'll have to consult the IPA chart again, I don't recognize /c/.
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:26 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Labial to Dental sound change question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5211
Labial to Dental sound change question
Yeah, I mean /p/ or /b/ undergoing a change into /t/ or /d/. Attested?
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:08 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: South Eresian (with a bit of grammar!)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 13117
Re: South Eresian (looks like Tengwar?)
When printed, it looks like Aurukbesh(sp?), but then morphs into a Tengwar-Aurukbesh hybrid when cursive.
I kinda like it.
I kinda like it.
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:30 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Culture statistics resources
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12569
Re: Culture statistics resources
------------ To begin with the question you address: you quote Curan speaking, and then say what Curan said, but what you quote and what you say he said don't seem that related. I don't know what Curan meant, but if he meant to say what you said he said, he said it very poorly indeed, as I don't be...
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:37 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Culture statistics resources
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12569
Re: Culture statistics resources
To not contribute to derailing this thread, can you explain over PM what you understand "disingenious" to mean? I understand it to mean reflexive and underthought.
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Culture statistics resources
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12569
Re: Culture statistics resources
Saying that seems just as disingenious to me as blurting out an ethnocentrism.
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:39 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Culture statistics resources
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12569
Re: Culture statistics resources
I wonder what the underlying cause would be for this effect. Most "answers" that are given to the aforementioned meme strike me as conjectural at best.Radagast wrote:It is pretty common in most hunter gatherer cultures yes.
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:30 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Con-Weapons
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13569
Re: Con-Weapons
According to Google:
gravity on earth = 9.80665 m / s2
gravity on earth = 9.80665 m / s2
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Con-Weapons
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13569
Re: Con-Weapons
Cool narrative. Ditto what Torco said: that APC is a spam oven. As for my con-people's weapons, where should I begin? Small-arms, light weapons, starship armaments? Yeah I feared that would be the case. The actual design of the SHZ is fairly new in my works, and the model doesn't even have a worked...