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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 ...

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.

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.

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

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...

This whole thread raises an interesting question.

Is there a general formula relating atmospheric pressure to composition, height, temperature, and gravity?

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

I need to shave.

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...

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...

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...

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...