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Really liking these so far! Love those prepositions :=) Do you have any sort of general rules or conventions that you would note in terms of the style? It has this sort of sparse triangular aesthetic. Along those lines my first reaction to du "crop(s)" is that I might expect it to be more stylized; ...

Ahe, utdou, dien mu, vemari u, merei.
Ah, but the first one is a feature, not a bug.

Deren be su, deren mu...
The second, on the other hand...

Quite excellent. Really like the histories and all the little details. When multiple glyphs are combined, as with the sound complements, are they always arranged half and half vertically or are there other arrangements? Neat use of space with the wrapping glyph for the genitive. Might you also do th...

Dadi (hree!) deu te mu det i?
Kids (huh!) what are they good for?

there's fire in the air Utvabimi mu meva re. Temi u trat i ti? (ahe, ti suunema su, utmu amupen si det) I really like this phrasing. Is it from a natlang? (heh, my implicit way of asking if I can steal it) But it isn't easy to find good wedding clothes. Deu me, neva te mu met? Where do you plan to ...

It seems to me that the 'marriage lasts until death do us part' idea worked a lot better back in the day when mortality was higher and it was pretty plausible that you might be a widow/er in 5 or 10 years. Except, which days were those? Now, I'm too lazy to go and do the research again, but I remem...

Been dipping into French pop music over the last week, latest two faves: Emmanuel Moire - Beau Malheur Also a song for a broken person, beautifully composed and a compelling listen; leaves me quite contemplative Ycare - Sors More upbeat, but just as thoughtful. Not quite taking his advice by sitting...

atlai nankua mokunko /aˈtɬaɪ naˈᵑkʷa moˈkuᵑko:/ COP.IMM 1PL.INCL sleep-CONT Soon we will all be sleeping... kulu tuku vu [kulú tukú vú] heard threaten NOM.2s.ICS That sounds like a threat. Ha, mant me, ot su, betme ti mahi me o. [ˈɣa ˈmants mɛ ˈwɔt sʉ ˈbɛtsmɛ tɨ maɣʲ mɛ wɔ] ha, now in, happen under...

Deren ue, dad sue tee mue, ut ue, kiboe ar sue mevae tee mue vee.
/ˈdɛrəwə ˈdassətsɛmə ˈʌtswə ˈkibʊwarsəˌmɛβatsɛmə ˈβɛ/
second like, fun of all on, before like, long day of many to up none
And then all the fun things will be many days away, too.

L'est truc c'est que, avec le calvinisme, personne ne peut vraiment savoir s'ils sont "chrétien" avant qu'ils ne soit mort. En effet, il y a un bonne comparaison entre l'élection inconditionnelle des cieux et les élections habituelles d'ici la terre. On essaie de deviner les gagnants, mais dire que...

Machine translation [...] means everyone communicates through text I don't see why. Skype translator already provides real-time voice-to-voice translation, and the people who've tried it out say that it's actually passable. Microsoft is working hard at making it more than that and you can bet Googl...

Neon is on point. The guy says that 'I had eaten" is NOT past perfect, not without context', so what he wants is an explicit reference to the more recent past. More specifically, 'The past perfect is commonly introduced by "when"', and it really does have to be "when": I had had my textbook for two ...

Canada also benefits from being right next to a superpower with which it shares more the less the same values. We love to criticize what we see as American overagression, but in many ways it is their military power that allows us to be the "peaceful" one. having conflict preempted by the enforcement...

Surely at this point he qualifies as some sort of conspiracy theorist. I almost applaud the man for the levels of devotion it must take to read book after book and marvel at the neverending errors. I mean, there is a sufficiently large word count n, and it's not even that large, for which any publis...

next: gist; main idea; general tenor Let's see. I already have anen [ˈanə] n. 1. line 2. argument; line of reasoning minen ['mɪnə] n. 1. point 2. conclusion; consequence so how about "plane" for the general or broad concept of an argument? mimit [ˈmɪmɪt] adj. flat > mimitie [ˈmɪmɪtsʲ] n. 1. plane; ...

Yaufulti lentese ["lendets@] Deevie rendetie [ˈrɛndɛtsʲ]
Yaufulti tesen ["tetsen] Deevie teteenen [ˈtɛtsɛnə]
Yaufulti tatesaki ["tatets@cI] Deevie tateteekie [ˈtatstjɛxʲ]
Yaufulti lasafe ["lasaf@] Deevie rasaven [ˈrazβə]

Nice! A before/after audio sample would be amazing.

Ooh, this looks fun . I like what you're doing with the genders, especially their interaction with honorifics, and I really like the depth behind da . I'm also a sucker for messy orthographies, so like Bristel I love the look of the language. I'm curious about the nominalization of articles - does d...

Of course, the real difficulty in finding unambiguous counterexamples is simply that outside Sandersonesque novels and Hollywood films there's normally no such thing as 'resolves conflict' vs 'creates conflict' - generally, each resolution of one conflict brings about another. Yeah, this is definit...

Sez Yu. And Sez Brandon Sanderson. JRR Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, GK Chesteron, HP Lovecraft, the Brothers Grimm and so forth would obviously disagree. And I think they know more about it than Sanderson. Nah. WeepingElf overstated things but Sanderson actually a...

Freedom of Purpose (Culture 4) This is already pretty long, so I'm going to write the second half later. History (Part 1) Since the Declaration of Organized Golem Creation in 2820, the Zwera added to their number through a process whereby guild members applied to their sumuda and requested the crea...

The Zwera will be adopting a mixture of Swiivà Ngīzwáyadri and Zorachok religion, which are actually quite compatible, at least on the face of it. I imagine missionaries from Nggwoó will first reach the Zwera colony on Otralyra, and the religion will spread to the rest of Zwera society from there. I...

Map of Dwína (c. 4000) (Culture 3) (click for full image) http://zeebwiki.org/images/4/48/Dw%C3%ADna_small.png Dwína's territorial claim extends only a few kilometers inland, sometimes even less than a kilometer, but includes several hundred kilometers of territorial waters, including the entire in...

Swiivà Ngīzwáyadri
Rao monotheism
Zörachok religion
Tetratheonism

Honorary mention to Dragolm Vibrationism

Zwera Government (c. 4000) (Culture 2) The Sumudas The core unit of Zwera government is the professional organization or guild, which is called a sumuda [zmúdà]. The sumuda controls the practice of a particular profession throughout Zwera society, and is responsible for the training and licencing o...