That hardly seems necessary.Drydic wrote:More than you ever have.
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- Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Messed Up Mythology
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7516
Re: Messed Up Mythology
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Messed Up Mythology
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7516
Re: Messed Up Mythology
I have always wondered why so many mythologies had such weird elements like that. What the hell were people thinking when they came up with Loki giving birth to Sleipnir?
- Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 166856
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Has anyone ever made a thread or test for how much the grammar of your conlang follows European models along the lines of this thread?
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 166856
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
yeah but on the other hand, every germanic language, every baltic language, every slavic language except polish, every uralic language in europe Hmm, never really thought about it that way. I guess I am just so used to thinking of "v without w" as something exotic and foreign that it never occurred...
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 166856
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Would you really say that /v/ but no /w/ is a particularly European trait? I can think of plenty of European languages with /w/ and at least some of them lack /v/.
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:15 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
- Replies: 96
- Views: 32217
Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
What about Croatia?Dewrad wrote:Dravia borders Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia:
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 11:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
- Replies: 96
- Views: 32217
Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
You did expect to find magic there, so what makes the odd non-racist so unexpected?patiku wrote:I can't believe Dewrad managed to find a non-racist Eastern European.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
- Replies: 96
- Views: 32217
Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
Is that so?Dewrad wrote:PS: Aurora Rossa, I have heard all about you.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
- Replies: 96
- Views: 32217
Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
I am just saying, there is nothing in what he posted to suggest that the project includes magic. Not even the stray vampire reference you might expect from a country sandwiched somewhere among Transylvania.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:43 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
- Replies: 96
- Views: 32217
Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
It sounds like he is describing a fictional country on Earth rather than a fantasy world, so it probably has none.
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:56 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kool map game
- Replies: 369
- Views: 97330
Re: Kool map game
Ow. My eyes were already in terrible shape and you just made them worse with that map.
- Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Isolating CV languages?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4694
Re: Isolating CV languages?
The Polynesian languages, like Hawai'ian and Māori, are mostly isolating and have pretty much nothing but CV. Plenty of agglutinating languages are CVC, probably most of them really. Look at Turkish and Quechua for some obvious examples.
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Con-Programming Languages
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7981
Re: Con-Programming Languages
I have thought about this since I have been planning making a conworld with advanced technology. I have always wondered what a programming language made by speakers of a polysynthetic language would look like.
- Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Considering grammatical tone
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2770
Re: Considering grammatical tone
If your language is especially agglutinative and even polysynthetic, it would make sense to express more complex aspectual or temporal notions through derivational affixes of some kind. You might also want to consider whether tone encodes something besides traditional tense on verbs. Perhaps it expr...
- Mon Aug 05, 2013 1:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kool map game
- Replies: 369
- Views: 97330
Re: Kool map game
Yeah, I wouldn't mind if someone made a map for it.clawgrip wrote:I doubt it. Izambri has already named all the ARF colonies anyway and he's made no posts since he created the country. He probably won't mind if we just do the map for him (I could probably do Melya at the same time that I do Yiyenmenyon).
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:13 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Euphony and non-phonemic orthographies
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5084
Re: Euphony and non-phonemic orthographies
my favorite letter combination is http://www.goatse.info/hello.jpg Ew, you are disgusting. That hardly seems like appropriate posting behavior for this forum. Also, damn my inexplicably persistent reflex of clicking on picture links without reading the title all the way. More on topic, though, I ha...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How did we learn new languages from scratch?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5308
Re: How did we learn new languages from scratch?
Thank you so much for asking this. I have been wondering this exact question for years and eagerly anticipate the answer.
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Choose your borders.
- Replies: 87
- Views: 21010
Re: Choose your borders.
No, I mean that I mistook what was land and what was sea. I also put my own country in the same area you did, incidentally, not realizing that it was water.
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Choose your borders.
- Replies: 87
- Views: 21010
Re: Choose your borders.
Heh, you had the same misunderstanding as me.
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:34 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323578
Re: Creativity of the day
According to this site, there are 400,000 apartment dwellers in Missouri. Then this article says that there are 135,000 units in the "metro St Louis" area. In fact, according to that article, demand for apartments is on the rise, with the lowest vacancy rate in ten years and 1000 more units planned...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:29 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323578
Re: Creativity of the day
Point taken, although that will probably take a while given my current circumstances.Drydic Guy wrote:go - verb (intransitive) To move from one place to another.
I didn't tell you to look at more. I told you to MOVE YOUR PHYSICAL BODY AND GO LOOK AT SOME ACTUAL APARTMENTS IN REAL LIFE.
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323578
Re: Creativity of the day
There are no apartments in a city with over ten thousand people? Maybe a few here and there, but I honestly don't see much besides single family houses here. so go look at some I have been looking, although I am still sifting through results and such. I wonder if Viktor would know where to look for...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:07 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323578
Re: Creativity of the day
Not very many. You do not see many apartments around here, as you might imagine. I have mostly been basing my drawings on floor plans I have found through Google image searches.Drydic Guy wrote:how many apartments have you actually been inside
- Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:15 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323578
Re: Creativity of the day
So basically you would say the hallway needs to go and it would really help to integrate the kitchen and dining areas with the living room. I still think some kind of hallway or foyer would be nice for buffering public and private spaces, though. And they seem pretty common in the apartment floor pl...
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:59 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Underappreciated words
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4321
Re: Underappreciated words
@xephyr: Not really.
I like the ironically rare word "ubiquitous" myself.
I like the ironically rare word "ubiquitous" myself.