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- Sun May 15, 2016 9:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pantheistic reincarnation via timey wimey ball
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3644
Re: Pantheistic reincarnation via timey wimey ball
I came up with that idea after reading about the One-Electron Universe theory. The application of the same to the soul seemed obvious. However, to develop the religious equivalent idea, a conpeoples would need to be aware of quantum phenomenon, and by the time a species developed that far, the creat...
- Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Nine Worlds: Traditional Fantasy Reimagined
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2651
Re: The Nine Worlds: Traditional Fantasy Reimagined
Apologies for the delay. I've been unwell. The Aelf When Yr was slain, his spirit was too great to fall to Sheol, and too heavy to rise to Kleos. Thus it rotted in place. In time, tiny fragments began to crumble away, like gobs of flesh falling from the carcass of a whale. Being incomplete, when the...
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Nine Worlds: Traditional Fantasy Reimagined
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2651
The Nine Worlds: Traditional Fantasy Reimagined
Hel is cold, Muspel is hot. Down in Sheol, spirits rot. Jotun giants grind your bones, Midgard's where we build our homes. Val is high, Mer is deep, Fae is where the Faeries sleep. Nifl where the Vandir fall, Kleos which surrounds us all. One more place we dare not speak, Where old foes rule their ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Let's test sound symbolism.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7351
Re: Let's test sound symbolism.
if you want to do an experiment like this, you need to check what the subject's native language is, otherwise your results will be negated because you can say "well it actually might be because of differing languages". to do this kind of test ideally you want native monolingual speakers of two part...
- Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Let's test sound symbolism.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7351
Let's test sound symbolism.
The Bouba/Kiki effect fascinates me. I'm going to post several made-up words with three possible definitions each. I'd appreciate it if you'd post what you think the definition of each word should be, based solely on its sound. If you look at other peoples posts before you post, you may influence yo...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:12 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44711
Re: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
White Crayon, I'm happy you find Kćeća Ora so fascinating. I haven't abandoned it. My interests in a single project naturally wax and wane. Currently I'm working on another conworld, apart from Kćeća Ora or Sayre. I may even make a topic about it. My main interest will eventually return to Kćeća Ora...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:11 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Theory of Magic
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34876
Re: Theory of Magic
I do understand what you're saying and doing now. My confusion came from not recognizing that you were arbitrarily assigning words and values. I thought you were saying that chaos and order in the real world were this way and that way. Because of course, eating and drinking in Earth's universe does ...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:02 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Theory of Magic
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34876
Re: Theory of Magic
Eandil, I suggested your magic system implies a world without entropy because in Earth's universe, and presumably many Earth-like conworlds, entropy cannot be reversed. Hawking explains it well in A Brief History of Time. I'll try here. In short, there are infinitely more disordered states than orde...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:18 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Theory of Magic
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34876
Re: Theory of Magic
Eandil, I find your scientific approach to magic interesting. I like your conceptualization of using magic like playing music, and creating spells like composing music. I have a few questions. 1) How do amulets increase spell power if magic functions via consciousness? 2) What/who determines whether...
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:48 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44711
Re: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
Elandil, I think your struggle is due to equating a sense of a flow of time with a physical thing called time. The two are distinct. In Briah, we all have the same sense of time because there is a physical thing called time which we all necessarily experience in the same way. In Kćeća Ora, there is ...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:05 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Your longest conlang text.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23002
Re: Your longest conlang text.
Theta, have you thought of something to translate yet? Though I've never conlanged, I see many people choose either the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or their home country's constitution, or their religious text's most important or first passage. bulbaquil, what do you mean b...
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44711
Re: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
Eandil, I'm glad someone's following this. The Quindimes are only Cthulhian in that they have large, non-euclidean, asymmetrical bodies. They aren't necessarily demonic or evil. Beings of different dimensional classification can and do live in proximity to each other, however the lower-Dimes would l...
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:12 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Your longest conlang text.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23002
Re: Your longest conlang text.
finlay, I couldn't figure that out, I know little of linguistics or language. Regardless, what do the cases mean? Foolster41, there are nine parts to the word and only eight to the gloss. I can't figure out what matches what. Alkeme is clearly alchemy; koke-yl-lasa crusher-and-bowl, but the middle i...
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:03 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Your longest conlang text.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23002
Re: Your longest conlang text.
It would be helpful to mention the name of your conlangs in your posts, even if they're mentioned in any links provided. Foolster41, will you gloss "alkemesanalegilsankoheylasa" for me? I'm interested in how that translates to "The Mortor and pestle is very important for Alchemists." finlay, what do...
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8708
Re: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Serafín, if "the month ahead" doesn't, does "the months ahead" sound normal to you?
Terra, in my experience, while men may prefer being queued, women generally prefer to be stacked.
Terra, in my experience, while men may prefer being queued, women generally prefer to be stacked.
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Animal-Vegetable-Mineral
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6905
Re: Animal-Vegetable-Mineral
It's interesting how different everyone's definitions are, even as we speak the same language. I've personally never heard someone claim that birds weren't animals, potatoes weren't vegetables or trees weren't plants, but to some of you, this seems natural and common. Fascinating. Bryan, you say you...
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:42 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Your longest conlang text.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23002
Your longest conlang text.
Often, I see topics about conlangs that ask about specific features. Replies flow readily. They are typically isolated sentences. I'd like to see larger texts. What is the longest contiguous text (paragraph; short story; etc.) you've produced in any conlang of yours? Will you post it, or link to it ...
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44711
Re: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
I'm glad to hear you enjoy my conworld, Mr. Eldritch. Thank you for your kind words. Common Characteristics Among the Three Dimensional Classifications of Life Sorts of organisms in Kćeća Ora are not distributed equiprobably throughout the dimensional classifications of life. Most Tridimes are simpl...
- Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8708
Re: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Shrdlu, according to the results of the experiment, English speakers tend to associate the leftward direction with the past and rightward with the future. Chinese tend to associate upward with the past and downward with the future. From the link: "English speakers tend to see time on a horizontal pl...
- Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What does "or" mean?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7889
Re: What does "or" mean?
Zompist, I'm not versed in linguistics. Is "implies" classified as the same sort of word as "but," "and" and "or?" CaesarVincens, "if" alone seems adequate when you rearrange the sentence that way. Perhaps "if/then" is an artifact of word order. Qwynegold, that's interesting; a conjunction only usab...
- Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:46 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8708
Re: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
What does Eskimos having X number of words for snow, or claims thereof, have to do with linguisic relativity? I'm unfamiliar with the claim that the content of a lexicon constitutes linguistic relativity. The link is clear in the article that claims factory accident frequency as a function of langua...
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:12 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44711
Re: Kćeća Ora: A Conworld from the Beginning
Fire in Kćeća Ora There is no oxygen in Kćeća Ora. Thus, there can be no flame. There is an analogue. Heat works the same in Kćeća Ora as Briah; it's a measurement of the motion of molecules or atoms. When molecules of certain configurations become very hot in Kćeća Ora, they breach the Fire Field,...
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:59 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Combat and Biology in Lower Gravity
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7481
Re: Combat and Biology in Lower Gravity
Lyhoko Leaci, I imagined humans becoming stockier to combat bone breakage due to reduced density. Someone would be more likely to break bones during a fall if they were long-limbed, compared to if they were short-limbed. vampyre_smiles, you're right. I zoned out during that large post. Water respira...
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:55 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What does "or" mean?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7889
Re: What does "or" mean?
cromulant, I see. For some reason, I was blocking out such common examples as "down but not out" because I was focused on imagining a morphemic "P but not Q." The material conditional may not work as a morphemic word. "If P then Q." It would seem to require two separate words. "If the speed of light...
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:31 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Combat and Biology in Lower Gravity
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7481
Re: Combat and Biology in Lower Gravity
I dabble in physics. Don't give my words too much weight. To the best of my knowledge... Effects of 0.5g on Earth Zoology Size Gravity has little bearing on the allowable sizes of animals. Earth has always had the same gravity, yet in the past, there were foot-long centipedes, dragonflies with three...