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by Latinist13
Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:22 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Tunisian religion
Replies: 1
Views: 3279

Tunisian religion

As a religion and theology nerd, I am kind of curious about the Tunisian religion in the Incatena universe. What sorts of theological evolution in Islam and Christian evangelicalism would lead to something like that? What are the core tenets, and how do they reconcile the Christian view of Christ as...
by Latinist13
Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:27 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Your Native Language
Replies: 228
Views: 34390

Re: Your Native Language

Mother toungues: Plaudietsch (Low German, my dad calls it Swiebisch , although I am not sure if I got the correct spelling) That sounds an awful lot like Schwäbisch , which is not actually Low German, but a variety of Alemannic, an Upper German variety. Do you know where, geographically, your famil...
by Latinist13
Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:55 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Your Native Language
Replies: 228
Views: 34390

Re: Your Native Language

Native: English
Mother toungues: Plaudietsch (Low German, my dad calls it Swiebisch, although I am not sure if I got the correct spelling), Norwegian, and Russian.
by Latinist13
Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:09 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Life on a gas giant, the conworld
Replies: 68
Views: 29303

Re: Life on a gas giant, the conworld

Would the most intelligent of species on your conwolrd, the Nephelai I believe you call them, have any real type of technology or tool use? I think that could pose a problem for creating such a thing as culture, with the absence of any sort of stone, wood, metal etc. And what physical shape would t...
by Latinist13
Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:55 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Life on a gas giant, the conworld
Replies: 68
Views: 29303

Re: Life on a gas giant, the conworld

I can't find it now, but a while ago, I saw a documentary that at least partially touched on the subject of this possibility. On Jupiter, specifically. Beings spoken off were ones with, for example, air-filled sacks that would allow them to float about in the air and not fall into the gases below. ...
by Latinist13
Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:53 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Life on a gas giant, the conworld
Replies: 68
Views: 29303

Re: Life on a gas giant, the conworld

Have all the cells in this world, both of single and multi-cellular life developed structures similar to the large central vacuoles in plant cells, but filled with gas instead of fluid? And do any of the organisms (most likely larger creatures) have a way to change their buoyancy and thus not be co...
by Latinist13
Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: LCK Two
Replies: 121
Views: 22710

Re: LCK Two

I think you should include more on valency reduction and morphosyntax. As for a title, I kinda like "Advanced Language Construction," but that's just me. Btw, have you thought about writing a PCK II, perchance? I wouldn't mind seeing a more in depth treatment on class structures, politics, economics...
by Latinist13
Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:47 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Latin-speaker
Replies: 19
Views: 3270

Re: Latin-speaker

I think his pronunciation style is probably due to who his teacher was, as I just found out one of the teachers in my home district studied under Reginald Foster, as well, and he pronounces things quite similarly. This is probably due to the fact that Magister Foster worked in Italy (technically, th...
by Latinist13
Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:24 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Latin-speaker
Replies: 19
Views: 3270

Re: Latin-speaker

I saw this video on YouTube, of Latin teacher commentating on his experience learning Latin as a spoken language. Generally I'm not much for Latin, but his Latin seems pretty legitimate to me.His pronunciation, for instance, tries to be a lot more authentic than most people's (though he's probably ...
by Latinist13
Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:31 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB Census
Replies: 356
Views: 71700

Re: ZZB Census

Darkgamma wrote:Status: Single? Not really sure
How are you "Not really sure"?
by Latinist13
Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:28 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB Census
Replies: 356
Views: 71700

Re: ZBB Census

Age bracket: Early twenties Gender: Male Nationality: American State/Province/Other Subdivision: North Dakota Occupation: undergraduate- Latin Education major Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual Status: SWM iso SBF... :wink: (in other words, single) Native Language: English Secondary Languages: Latin ...
by Latinist13
Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:43 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Non-arbitrary population and economy
Replies: 16
Views: 8981

Re: Non-arbitrary population and economy

As a general rule for premodern settings without magic and crop yields similar to those on earth, take anywhere between 10 to 40 people per square kilometer of settled, reasonably irrigated arable land. This gives you roughly between 3 and 15 million people for someplace the size of Montana [I just...
by Latinist13
Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:53 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Non-arbitrary population and economy
Replies: 16
Views: 8981

Re: Non-arbitrary population and economy

I'm trying to decide if 100k people is plenty for a bronze age era population in an area about the size of the Levant. It's a mediterranean climate, although it might be much wetter than Israel and the surrounding area. *checks Biblical census figures for guesstimation* Considering the Levant prett...
by Latinist13
Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:59 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
Replies: 172
Views: 118056

Re: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)

Would it be appropriate for an Iroquois kinship system to be used by such a culture? I don't really know enough to say, but, I don't see why not. I'd think they'd be a natural fit for each other, and either of them would be a natural fit for dual descent. Part of the reason to conculture is to cond...
by Latinist13
Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:53 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
Replies: 172
Views: 118056

Re: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)

(answers to my questions) Thanks for the answers! As far as family dynamics are concerned, the division of labor and power is not so much men vs women, as it is head spouses (or alpha-male and alpha-female) vs younger spouses. However, strangely enough, property is passed down to the youngest sibli...
by Latinist13
Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:27 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
Replies: 172
Views: 118056

Re: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)

The problem comes in that the wives are sisters and the husbands are brothers, and that the husbands are the women's paternal second cousins- the women's fathers are the maternal cross cousins of the men's mothers. x= male o= female You only need to show the most immediate relationships, those that...
by Latinist13
Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:29 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
Replies: 172
Views: 118056

Re: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)

Is there any way to draw a family tree or kinship diagram in three dimensions to show polyamorous unions? That would make it easier for me to see any gaps in my conlang's kinship system. Just put extra = signs around the person? I did that in the female Ego in the first picture. That works great if...
by Latinist13
Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:45 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)
Replies: 172
Views: 118056

Re: Kinterms In Your Conlangs (And Natlangs)

Is there any way to draw a family tree or kinship diagram in three dimensions to show polyamorous unions? That would make it easier for me to see any gaps in my conlang's kinship system.
by Latinist13
Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:48 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: City layouts
Replies: 49
Views: 20244

Re: City layouts

Thus, we might say something like, "Oh, Mr. Smith? He lives in the old Terra Nova development, between 3rd Street N and Main Ave and 6th Ave E and 12th Ave E. To get to his place, you go 12 blocks north of St John's Cathedral and hook a right and go straight for another three blocks and then you re...
by Latinist13
Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:46 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: City layouts
Replies: 49
Views: 20244

Re: City layouts

I don't understand how it can be easy to find your way around in a grid city. Every road looks the same... I know I'm better at finding my way by the shape of the road, like whether it goes uphill or downhill or twists left or right or east or north or what, than by counting how many intersections ...
by Latinist13
Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:58 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 176720

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #16: Tense)

I really want to do poetry. But every time we mention it Bianca says she hates poetry. There seem to be very few things she doesn't hate. ... Do it anyway. It is true -- I think poetry is absolute pissbilge so I don't have anything constructive to add to such an episode. Every time they mention it ...
by Latinist13
Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:29 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
Replies: 112
Views: 52786

Re: Post your conlang's inspiration

Léxorfa was inspired at first by Latin and Greek in terms of the structure of its grammar, (a large number of declensions, masculine/feminine/neuter nouns, large number of cases, fusional morphology), lexicon, and vowel system (I use an acute instead of a macron simply because I learned to type that...
by Latinist13
Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:23 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB Census
Replies: 356
Views: 71700

Re: ZBB Census

Age bracket: Early twenties Gender: Male Nationality: American State/Province/Other Subdivision: North Dakota Occupation: undergraduate- Latin Education major Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual Status: SWM iso SBF... :wink: (in other words, single) Native Language: English Secondary Languages: Latin L...
by Latinist13
Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:34 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
Replies: 974
Views: 176720

Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #13: Profanity)

All I could think about after the first twenty minutes was Carmina XVI a C. Valerio Catullo :mrgreen: