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by Aurora Rossa
Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:10 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Messed Up Mythology
Replies: 30
Views: 7516

Re: Messed Up Mythology

Drydic wrote:More than you ever have.
That hardly seems necessary.
by Aurora Rossa
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?
by Aurora Rossa
Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:31 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
Replies: 622
Views: 166795

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?
by Aurora Rossa
Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:44 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
Replies: 622
Views: 166795

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...
by Aurora Rossa
Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:54 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
Replies: 622
Views: 166795

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/.
by Aurora Rossa
Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:15 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
Replies: 96
Views: 31915

Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!

Dewrad wrote:Dravia borders Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia:
What about Croatia?
by Aurora Rossa
Sat Oct 19, 2013 11:32 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
Replies: 96
Views: 31915

Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!

patiku wrote:I can't believe Dewrad managed to find a non-racist Eastern European.
You did expect to find magic there, so what makes the odd non-racist so unexpected?
by Aurora Rossa
Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:06 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
Replies: 96
Views: 31915

Re: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!

Dewrad wrote:PS: Aurora Rossa, I have heard all about you.
Is that so?
by Aurora Rossa
Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
Replies: 96
Views: 31915

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.
by Aurora Rossa
Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:43 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Meet my angry Dravian penpal!
Replies: 96
Views: 31915

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.
by Aurora Rossa
Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:56 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kool map game
Replies: 369
Views: 97291

Re: Kool map game

Ow. My eyes were already in terrible shape and you just made them worse with that map. :wink:
by Aurora Rossa
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.
by Aurora Rossa
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:20 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Con-Programming Languages
Replies: 25
Views: 7979

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.
by Aurora Rossa
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...
by Aurora Rossa
Mon Aug 05, 2013 1:02 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kool map game
Replies: 369
Views: 97291

Re: Kool map game

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).
Yeah, I wouldn't mind if someone made a map for it.
by Aurora Rossa
Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:13 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Euphony and non-phonemic orthographies
Replies: 23
Views: 5083

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...
by Aurora Rossa
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.
by Aurora Rossa
Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:34 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Choose your borders.
Replies: 87
Views: 21006

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.
by Aurora Rossa
Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:18 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Choose your borders.
Replies: 87
Views: 21006

Re: Choose your borders.

Heh, you had the same misunderstanding as me.
by Aurora Rossa
Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:34 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323320

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...
by Aurora Rossa
Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323320

Re: Creativity of the day

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.
Point taken, although that will probably take a while given my current circumstances.
by Aurora Rossa
Fri Jul 19, 2013 4:09 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323320

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...
by Aurora Rossa
Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:07 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323320

Re: Creativity of the day

Drydic Guy wrote:how many apartments have you actually been inside
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.
by Aurora Rossa
Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:15 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323320

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...
by Aurora Rossa
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.