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clawgrip wrote:Sorry, your map is wrong due to my screw-up. It should actually look like this:

Ok, I just noticed that myself and was going to fix it actually.

Aurora Rossa Federation What began as an uncommonly fastidious coffeehouse has evolved over the decades into one of the great economic (and culinary) powerhouses of the world. The secret to its power lies with its near monopoly on the world supply of coffee, the main crop of its numerous colonies. T...

The nation of Virélatteristi originated some five hundred years ago from the confederation of littoral citystates for the purposes of trade and tranquility. These principles have defined the country ever since and fueled its thriving economy and progressive social attitudes. Its diverse manufactured...

cunningham wrote:Jabechasqvi ,would you like to choose new borders?

Sure.

Oh wait, the blue is the ocean and the white the land? Goddamn am I ever dense. Somehow that failed to dawn on me all this time, leading me to assume that I had carved out an island for my country when in fact I had drawn a line through an inland sea. If only I had figured that out sooner, I would h...

since it lends privacy between the rooms That's what walls and doors are for. But what happens when the bedroom and bathroom doors open to the living room itself? It seems like that would intrude on privacy since you would have to go through the living room to get anywhere. The hallway separates th...

t wouldn't Do you mean to say "it wouldn't" meaning that my design choices would not lend it sophistication after all? I should point out that I have been trying to design my apartment complex to look something like the apartment buildings that seem typical of European cities. Something rectangular...

Here's what I'm going to say. No one today will buy an apartment with that kind of kitchen. Open concept is your best bet because not only is it more attractive to apartment dwellers, it eats up less floorspace. Also you need a dining area of some sort and right now you lack that completely. You ba...

Another one of my forays into architectural design, an attempt to draw the floor plan for a simple apartment complex. I was not sure how to fit the elevator into the plan and it feels kind of awkward sitting next to the outside wall like that. It seemed rather hard to avoid such an arrangement, thou...

Could you give some examples of it in action?

I was not sure exactly what landmasses you wanted borders drawn around, so I picked one of the northern landmasses. I was picturing something vaguely Scandanavian, cold and remote but also enlightened. The name means "Cold land" in one of my conlang projects.

It does sound pretty strange to me. I would personally say "Collect both" or something.

I think it means a name for a body of water, like the names given to rivers.

I think diacritics have always appealed to me more because they seem much more exotic than digraphs. English has plenty of digraphs but no diacritics (apart from optionally in borrowings like "café" anyway). Diacritics do have the advantage of approaching a "one character, one phoneme" ideal better ...

I thought that Latin and the Romance languages used the subjunctive mood for dependent clauses, hence its use in the Latin for "that it was good".

Mandarin Chinese has a three way distinction between /ts tʂ tɕ/ so yes, it distinguishes them at least.

Vytautas wrote:What do you mean?

Don't worry about it. They're just making a dumb joke.

Well, the name of the language includes the sounds /t s n l a e i/ which seems like a good start. All those sounds occur in most of the major languages of the world, so they would fit a universal language pretty well. You would also want to include /p k o u/ for the sake of balance and naturalism. A...

I second that, Naellow XIII.

patiku wrote:Once in a Ted talk someone proved that the Indus Valley Civilization spoke a Dravidian language because one of their glyphs had seven points on it or something.

I remember reading something along those lines on a websites for ancient scripts, maybe www.ancientscripts.com or something.

I have this recurring dream where I am back in college with my next class starting in a few minutes and I have no idea where to find it.

Sounds like an intriguing idea, though your use of aspect seems rather unusual. Normally it describes the temporal composition of the verb, whether it occurs all at once, over time as a process, or something. I am not sure what you would call the category of morphemes which illustrate your attitude ...

R.Rusanov wrote:Why not just learn classical Latin? It's not that hard, the language as a whole is remarkably regular and comprehension of even huge texts such as the Aeneid is easy after some study.

Latin is remarkably regular?

dhokarena56 wrote:Eddy geheim wil leer Afrikaans.

Don't be silly. (Also, wiktionary is very handy, at least for languages without much inflectional morphology)