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Kitties can drive you mad, either through unrelenting staring or, when that fails, toxoplasmosis.

Don't diss the Kitty!

I don't buy it. Try having a discussion in a noisy environment, or over a poor telephone connection - most of the words might be misheard or mangled, but a significant portion of the conversation is still understood. soo? I don't follow Lexicons are important, but not 95% important. There's more to...

I don't buy it. Try having a discussion in a noisy environment, or over a poor telephone connection - most of the words might be misheard or mangled, but a significant portion of the conversation is still understood. soo? I don't follow Lexicons are important, but not 95% important. There's more to...

(And conversely, we don't care as much about lexicon.) Wait, we don't? We should! Lexicography and semantics are part of linguistics too after all. Yes, but he kind of claimed lexicography was everything, and grammar (which he seemed to reduce to morphology) was nothing. Not everything, but a huge ...

I rarely turn violent, though I've fisted my fair share of walls and light switches over the years ... oh, me too... though firing guns really takes most of the agression out of your system. I recommend. I was brought up with guns. Never really got any satisfaction from pulling the trigger - just m...

When I can, I walk away. A need for nicotine is always a good excuse.

When I can't ... I'll either turn hyper-professional and calm, or I'll turn sarcastic.

I rarely turn violent, though I've fisted my fair share of walls and light switches over the years ...

It's too confusing. It seems to be a story about one person, but then it seems to be about different people, but then it seems to be about the first person, but then about the fifth person, but then the first person again, and I couldn't read it properly. It's very pretty though. This is a valid, a...

I finished my Long Poem. Here it is.

Enjoy!

Been working on my maps:

Not yet convinced the mountains are good enough ...

... but they're kinda okay when some colour is added.

This is an awesome piece of work.

Heavy applause from this part of the audience!

Thank you both! All glory, however, goes to the Gimp - specifically Filters > Animation > Spinning Globe. Works best if your starting map is big, with a width double that of the height. What did you use to create the original map? Free drawn or a generator? Free-drawn on Gimp, from original hand-dr...

Sweet globe! How did you generate that? I'm quite impressed. My thought, as well; so much so that I'm even coming back out from lurking for several years. Thank you both! All glory, however, goes to the Gimp - specifically Filters > Animation > Spinning Globe. Works best if your starting map is big...

For my conworld, Kalieda ... Do the people live on Earth, or on another planet? If the latter, what is the astronomical environment of the planet (moons, seasons, etc.). How does the timekeeping system handle annual variation in the length of a day? (Since Earth's orbit is nearly circular, we can af...

Someone please remind me to vote for this thread in next December's awards thingy. Superb work from everyone who's contributed, but most especially Whimemsz.

Now I'm gonna have to come up with a new descriptive word for my Akat, because it's clearly not 'polysynthetic' ...

Currently teaching myself some of the more fun stuff that goes with HTML5 (because, yaknow, it might help get me a job) ...

http://vreskiwards.rikweb.org.uk/

I redesigned my poetry website from back end to front face ...

http://www.rikweb.org.uk/poems/index.php
(still in beta, bits like the social apps buttons need to be added)

... who said jQuery ain't fun!?

There is no hard requirement that something have been produced or published this year. It's sorta a custom, and ideally we should focus more on new work than on old things we've all known about for a long time. But there has never been a hard rule about it and never should be, for the good reasons ...

I've done nothing of note this year. This depresses me. I promise that next year I shall make more of an effort.

Rik, what is the significance of the periods within words in Gevey? Also, is "SIMA" a gloss for "simultaneous?" My only resource is the Wikipedia page on glosses , and it's not listed. The periods in the IPA mark syllable boundaries (important for writing the language in its native alphabet). Gevey...

(Translations and interlinears on this webpage ) Tconju Babelen Denevljefraeljem vilue rud dxinsokitculjs laez gamec tcaompun feeg ye dostcisem gotatjee. Gamhieta swasyum club âl maalisteir beda ciklendou, úelgaar laez dxaeklu Kaliedan stuavuetlu âl buetsaluetlu fu ga denedxinsokitculjs tagrjaa, bad...

jal wrote:

Rik wrote:Plus they were all looking at MY photos, not his!

Indeed! We'd almost forget yours! I must honoustly say, that I would never, ever, suspect someone with your exterior to be into conlanging or otherwise hang around the ZBB .


JAL

It's the horns and hooves, innit.

finlay wrote:Also, the number of guests browsing at the bottom is for the whole forum, not just this thread.

Plus they were all looking at MY photos, not his!

Rik - front view: http://www.rikweb.co.uk/photos/rik-frontview.jpg Rik - back view: http://www.rikweb.co.uk/photos/rik-backview.jpg Rik with a big pole thingy: http://www.rikweb.co.uk/photos/rik-withbigpole.jpg Rik - 47th birthday shot: http://www.rikweb.co.uk/photos/rik-birthday47.jpg

My old map-making tutorial from way-back-when, saved for posterity in a dusty corner of the interwebs

Oh. If we're posting poetry, then here's one I wrote recently that's the bastard child of sestina and noir fiction: (ahem) The Digger I was on the losing end of three hands of duff cards; each round a waste of good cash after better. The line of table chatter was stacking words towards my exit: the ...