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But you imply that the probability is very small, to the point of being 'delusional'. If someone says "I think X is an upper bound of what might possibly be plausible maybe" and someone else says "you're delusional", it's hard to read that as actually saying "yes, you're correct, but I think it wor...

Except you'd probably still be reliant on the surface for fresh air and water. Why waste energy recycling it, when you have a colossal store just a tunnel away? It doesn't make much sense to horribly pollute it. I guess it all depends on how you perceive humanity. I am somewhat optimistic that the O...

So in theory, the Earth alone could sustain us, if we learned how to tap into it? That's good news for us, and it allows us to preserve the eco-system!

Í án ov málrí mín, ín namr ov ín málr, er et Sehɮó , et ín orðr um malá eðá malr. In one of my languages, the name of the language, which is Sehɮó, is the word for speak or speech. Ox, zudam at ín orðr malr et hlekadá um ín orðr málr . PS. I noticed that the word speech is related to the word langua...

Hm... Well, if we've already got as much solar as we can, and wind and water energy isn't enough... Geothermal does seem like the only available source. How much can that bring in?

Ok, not so sure if this is the correct forum, but here goes. Hey! I'm hoping you guys can give me a hand deciphering a conlang in the theme songs to two games. Whilst there is an official set of lyrics to one song, my own tentative transcription suggests that there it's not quite as correct as it co...

Unfortunately, syntax forces that last one to be along the lines of 'a dead person has been sentenced'.

Only in America.

We've already assumed ridiculous things. What's one more? Besides, engineering with carbon nano-tubes will have come a long way. Build your stilts out of that, and they should the incredibly stong.

Herr Dunkel wrote:

KathAveara wrote:What if you filled the seas with wind turbines? How much extra energy would that bring in?

It'd be a net loss, since you don't have wind underwater.

Muppet. You put wind turbines on top of the water. On giant stilts.

Hallow XIII wrote:Eá, ó̦ó̦nsul. Íslenasc, főröjst sǿ é̦n̦lisc.
[æ˥ ɔ̃ː˥ʃuɫ. i˥ɕʝenɐʃk fø˥ɾøjʃt ɕɤ˥ æ˥ŋʝɪɕc.]
INTJ northern. Icalandic, Faroese or English.
Well, Norse. Icelandic, Faroese or English.

Zterk myók.
Very good.

What if you filled the seas with wind turbines? How much extra energy would that bring in?

Nortaneous wrote:This is neither interesting nor funny but the next time I hear a tenured professor say "a phenomena" I am going to pile drive his skull through his fucking colon.

A bacteria. >.<

I think 'waste both of our time' and 'got both of their permission' would be how I would form it.

Á... Er?
Ah... Which?

Nortaneous wrote:Super Conlang 3D vuputejijĩna [ʋu.bu.de.ˈji.jĩ.na] Pre-Proto-Hathic wubudoiyîna Proto-Hathic wubudoiɕiñ [wubudəi̯ɕiɲ]

> Proto-Occidential Ɂ^ho:bo:daɁesen > Proto-Sehɮo: ho:vo:ðahesë: > Old Sehɮo: hwovoðaheši [hwɔβɔðɒhɛʃi]

Well, once a society's got into a mindset of 'take what you want, give nothing back', the only practical way to snap them out of it is for them to destroy their eco-sphere and cause a massive failure of civilisation. Assuming they survive, of course.

Treum at kanið nei viná ín málr er ín málr ov ín alakárí et umhlekadá. Eigent... Kanið mátr...
I reckon that you can't work out which language this one's related to. Then again... Maybe you could...

Very interesting research, Torque. However, they assume that humanity doesn't care about the environment. What would the numbers look like if we try to preserve our current ecosystem? Or how about if the entire population moved to the sea, and we used the land to farm?

One of these days, I will become fluent in Old English.

Zü WípiŋElf:

Étža hlekadá málr ðín um ín málrí ov Roumánzr?

@WeepingElf:

Is your language related to the Romance language?

Vidurnaktis wrote:> Conlang now with kung-fu grip: vopoteyĩna [ʋo.bo.de.ˈjĩ.na]

> Kíru Röþúra wobodeiina [wobɔdeɪjinɒ]

Out of interest, what did this current word start as?

Ðan ét ðíat ét nei vatr hleikum hyá ín rítrí ov Eládá.
That's because it's not what we associate with Greek.

What if you prevented such doubled chromosomes from letting the offspring develop at all? Would that not then force all births to be one of these four genders?

Basilius wrote:

Adjective Recoil wrote:"I'm doing good" instead of "well". For some reason I can't think of more examples off of the top of my head, though I know that it occurs fairly often in daily conversation.

Some people just can't speak proper.

You mean that they don't know how not to speak incorrect.