zompist bboard

The idea for a conlang derived from Gothic has been in my mind since I first started studying Gothic. Inspired by Ill Bethisad's ill-detailed Vissi and my class on the history and culture of medieval Spain this semester, I went with Spain as a setting. Its existence is predicated on the Visigoths' ...

Elemental magic: Aqua Aqua is the Latin word for water, and also the root underlying the word aqueous . Nevertheless, this magic usually employs frozen water, not liquid water. Producing liquid water is usually harder, since it requires more energy to be employed in temperature (related to internal...

"I don't really understand any of this...this...babbling you've been doing." Masoki said, biting her lip. [...] I like the narration and style. Is that "Satomenguya mo Satolinaya!" in any conlang, by the way? Yeah, it's my latest attempt at a magical language that is more like math or logic and les...

"I don't really understand any of this...this...babbling you've been doing." Masoki said, biting her lip. Pal-Min looked up from the pile of stones he was constructing and replied sardonically. "I wasn't doing all of this so you'd understand. No, that would be too much to ask indeed. I'm doing this ...

All I know is that sometimes when I am writing, or researching, or creating, I feel a 'something', a 'something' that is just beyond my grasp of explanation. It's not inspiration--it almost seems to be the object or source of inspiration. Like I can almost reach out and grasp it, and have in my pos...

I'd like to take a moment and address this thread, although I know it's pretty much dead. The questions of whether a hobby is worth it, if it doesn't make money or at least gain recognition and a blurb in a history book is an important questions, especially with conlangs and conworlds, which hardly ...