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I added some landmass to the planet in an effort to try to get the albedo down and thus keep the planet a bit warmer. This is a revised climate map.

I have tentatively decided on a star for the Dasar: HR 8501 A.

Zaarin wrote:θ > f is well attested; is there any reason it can't work the other way?

It seems to have done so at least once. There's apparently an Oceanic language that did this (it's in the Bizzare sound changes thread, but I can't look it up right now as I have stuff to do before I go to work).

I've just been walloped with a huge sense of failure/inadequacy. I was reading on reddit about someone who lacked social skills and wanted to talk to girls and it made me realize how when I've asked a girl out—either IRL or on online dating—it never pans out. IRL, girls just straight-up reject me. O...

I can't think of any specific examples, but on its face that seems reasonable to me.

Pending a background check and stuff, I may be starting at a job on Monday.

Fortescue's dictionary on Chukotko-Kamchatkan says that Itelmen gained ejectives from initial SVF and NVS sequences where the vowel dropped.

Cavineña seems to have had unconditional *x → k.

Vurës seems to have gotten labiovelars from labials before a rounded vowel, at least in some instances.

Hopefully nobody minds me replying to my own post in an attempt to get this topic going again… Classical Khaya keyeyeu [ˈkejejeu] → Çuvvaccoçim ceyeyeu [keˈjejeʊ̯] Classical Khaya keyeuseyeu [ˈkejeusejeu] → Çuvvaccoçim ceyeuçeyeu [kejeʊ̯ˈçejeʊ̯] Classical Khaya niuseyeu [ˈniusejeu] → Çuvvaccoçim ñuç...

Thanks, everyone. it was eventually discovered that we're six years apart (though I should note that both of us are legal adults) and the age difference is too great. Six years? That's nothing. I mean, yeah, if you're 16 you shouldn't date a 10yo, but once you're adults? Was she the younger or you? ...

Hopefully it isn't poor form to submit a few vents in the same post. - So a friend of mine did a very nice thing for me—she had a single friend, talked me up to her, and gave me her number. For once, I thought, maybe something happy will come from this. We seemed to hit it off. But this is the venti...

Nasals are prone to doing this.

The easiest option is that the Tim Ar take the writing system of another language and make their own distinctive version of it, like Fraktur in Germany or the Barakhinei alphabet . Even better is to make a distinctive version of an older version of a foreign orthography, such as how Germanic runes ...

Lasé kä'í'äo [kɛ:ʔi:ʔɛɔ] → Classical Khaya keyeyeu [ˈkejejeu]
Lasé ki'äosí'äo [kiʔɛɔsiːʔɛɔ] → Classical Khaya keyeuseyeu [ˈkejeusejeu]
Lasé näosä'äo [nɛɔsɛːʔɛɔ] → Classical Khaya niuseyeu [ˈniusejeu]
Lasé oystádhäo [oʏstɑːðɛɔ] → Classical Khaya uytadiu [ˈujtadiu]

Pretty scripty! Thank you! A potential daughter syllabary. In-universe this developed originally as a way to write the classical language (which was retained for use in official records) before being used for a daughter language. http://i.imgur.com/qG4HGHwh.jpg Codas are indicated by using a glyph ...

Simplified/hand versions of the phonetic complements: http://i.imgur.com/gvy79KY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/k2y5pF4.jpg Some working with the script and its simplification. The second image contains part of the Seven Kill Stele (which will probably have to be updated) and indicates the typical writing d...

-aĝ 'to have (a/an) X' q'aǧi 'bowl' > q'aǧiaĝ 'have a bowl' qhuh 'rope' > qhuhaĝ 'have some rope' suyuĝ 'staff' > suyuĝaĝ 'have a staff' upuqil 'spear' > upuqilaĝ 'have a spear' One can use adverbialized adjectives on -aĝ constructions to attribute some sort of quality to the possessum. ga qhuhaĝ i...

Rock'n'roll. This is probably the most impressive thing I've seen here. Did you look at his Caber Logography? That was really cool as well. Thank you! Verb marking -Ø STATIVE IMPERFECTIVE One could almost call this the 'simple imperfective'. It's the default form of the verb. ga uya ga uya-Ø 3 SG g...

I was getting married to a girl I crushed on in high school. I was not informed that the entertainment at the reception was going to be magicians, lots and lots of magicians, including Penn & Teller. I got fed up and went to leave. In an attempt to get me to stay, Penn & Teller began destroying plat...

I suppose I should get down to grammar. Some of this you may already know; I apologize if so. Pronouns 1 SG ahi 1 DL.INCL ĝu 1 DL.EXCL t'aǧ 1 PL.INCL mu 1 PL.EXCL nil 2 SG.M qu 2 DL.M qilu 2 PL.M qal 2 SG.F qu may 2 DL.F qilu may 2 PL.F iqim 3 SG ga 3 DL ey 3 PL k'uh Dialectally, ga may , ey may , a...

Your scripts are really amazing masterpieces! As a person who has difficulty drawing stick figures, I wish I could make stuff like that. (Improving my drawing skills is on my agenda, but it is pretty far down on my list.) Thank you! What I'm planning on doing is indicating sounds that close syllabl...

This is really awesome! I love it! I like it ! great work I'll second that They're gorgeous glyphs, though. I've wanted to create a similar script for some time, but just never was willing to put in the effort. I just love the look of Mayan and Mayan-type glyphs. Those glyphs are lovely. Thank you!...

More glyphs:

Here's the phonology that I posted to the Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread, which either is or is based on a phonology that gleb generated: /m n/ /ⁿg ⁿɢ/ /p pʰ p’ b t tʰ t’ d k kʰ k’ g q qʰ q’ ɢ/ /f s h/ /w l j/ /u i a/ (C)V(m/n/ⁿg/ⁿɢ/f/h/w/l/j) I'm not going to lie, my main motivation for...