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- Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What do you guys think of this climate map?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2336
Re: What do you guys think of this climate map?
Have you made an elevation map/mountains and tectonics and stuff? Yes and no. The high mountain ranges are indicated on this map. All three coastal mountain ranges are the result of oceanic subduction, while the two large plateaus on the eastern continent can be considered to be analogous to India ...
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What do you guys think of this climate map?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2336
What do you guys think of this climate map?
I'm taking a strict top-down approach to my conworlding. I think it would be best to correct mistakes before I base details off of them.
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Methods of generating lexicon
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5681
Methods of generating lexicon
What are your favorite ways of inventing words for your conlangs? Do you prefer to work with texts and invent words as needed, or come up with them randomly? I want to see the varying range of opinions.
- Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:25 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Omni-Lingual
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1643
Omni-Lingual
Just stumbled upon a hilarious video on youtube called Omni-Lingual. To not share with the ZBB would be selfish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0SNw7-v3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0SNw7-v3w
- Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:36 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Movement in Lower Gravity
- Replies: 54
- Views: 22640
Re: Movement in Lower Gravity
This whole thread raises an interesting question. Is there a general formula relating atmospheric pressure to composition, height, temperature, and gravity? There's the scale height: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_height. Is there a relationship between scale height and surface pressure? Assumi...
- Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:48 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Movement in Lower Gravity
- Replies: 54
- Views: 22640
Re: Movement in Lower Gravity
This whole thread raises an interesting question.
Is there a general formula relating atmospheric pressure to composition, height, temperature, and gravity?
Is there a general formula relating atmospheric pressure to composition, height, temperature, and gravity?
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 511891
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
vowels: /i e a u o/ <i e a u o> (each vowel is considered a separate syllable, so almost any diphthong can result) If they're different syllables then it's not a diphthong. Note the difference between [a.u] and [au̯] Well I guess what I mean is that they blend together. My phonology is based heavil...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 511891
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Here is the phonemic inventory for Madokh, the ancestral language of the Madokh family of languages (which is about the size of the Indo-European family): plosives: /p t k b d g/ < p t k b d g > nasals: /m n ŋ/ < m n ng > alveolar tap: /ɾ/ < r > fricative: /s z ʃ ʒ x h/ < s z sh zh kh h > approximat...
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:43 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Con-mathematical systems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27218
Re: Con-mathematical systems
So, we can assume that con-mathematics is doomed to be to Earth mathematics as conscript is to Tengwar? I wouldn't say that. Yes, the concepts will be the same since the laws of mathematics are fixed throughout the universe, but I'm sure your conpeople don't necessarily have to use base-10 like we ...
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:06 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Con-mathematical systems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27218
Re: Con-mathematical systems
Math concepts are universal. While there will be differences in notation and numeral systems, even the most exotic aliens will agree with us on the value of pi and the Pythagorean theorem.
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 788886
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
I need to shave.
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:16 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Effects of higher gravity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8315
Re: Effects of higher gravity
Moving out of biological questions now and into the geophysical realm. I read somewhere that because of earth's gravity, mountains here can never be more than 9 miles high. Does this mean that in 1.5 gees, they can't be higher than 6 miles? I just figured something like that would have a straightfor...
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:50 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Effects of higher gravity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8315
Re: Effects of higher gravity
Just to be annoying, let me also point out that there is no particular reason why animals should evolve to have legs. The could just as well have, say, wheels, or they could be stationary, or they could all swim or fly, or they could be composed of massless particles... This topic shows what I plan...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:01 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Effects of higher gravity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8315
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. dude, humans on any world that isn't earth or...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:38 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Effects of higher gravity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8315
Effects of higher gravity
I was planning on making my Conworld bigger than earth. The gravity would range from 1.2-1.5 times as strong as Earth's, depending on what I finnaly decide on. I basically wanted to figure out what all the implications would be. I understand it would lead to stockier lifeforms, but to what degree? A...