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People do learn a bit of language for the cool factor, but it's rarely the language itself that has all the cool. For example, the number of white kids who study Japanese is way higher than the number of white kids who study Korean, despite Korean being the clearly superior language. Why do they do ...

No, that's just another collaborative project. I mean take planets that people have already made, and cook the books so that they are in the same universe. The rules of how soft or hard the sci-fi is would be based on the creations, not vice versa. Hopefully you could select only those creations tha...

Has anyone tried just taking their pre-existing conworlds and tweaking them so they fit together? Very few people work out all the parts of a planet in detail, so there should be holes. You could put all this effort into stitching together the details you've already got. Terrible idea?

Kastas zipai [zɪpɛɪ̯] > s̰ib̤ɛ [s_kI\b_tE]

Scirish sube ['zybɪ] > s̰ib̤ɛ [s_kI\b_tE]

> s̰ib̤ɛ [s_kI\b_tE]

Well, they usually say [h]erb with the H intact. And I know some ignorant sons of bitches actually say "[paIjElla]" when referring to the classic Spanish dish. You might be thinking of the whole "pæsta" "tæco" phenomenon, but I think that's more to do with the Brits not having [a], and having to mak...

I am 1.540436e+52 plank times old It would take decillions upon decillions of Planck times just to type that message. what is, decillion? that silly 'illion' thing English has man. I get million, I guess I can understand billion [though there's short billions and long billions and people who actual...

Sal, maybe it's an Americanism. I can confirm [fI'le] is the most common pronunciation in the states. How do you not know that after your people made that remake of Gordon Ramsay's hit American TV show?

What's noteworthy about either of these? Do you expect English speakers to say [kroSEtEd] ? Why would they ever do that?

GrinningManiac wrote:My family's from Rottingdean just up the downs along the way.

What fucking moon language is this?

The vowels of ancient Egyptian is relevant to etymology. When you look up IE words and their PIE roots, do you care what the vowels are? That might be an important step to understanding where these words come from in Afro-Asiatic.

There's not much to say about them mechanically, since they all kind of work the same way. Not unrealistic, just... blah.
But aesthetically, these are amazing. 5/5. I would love to see larger samples of these; they are a joy to look at.

linguoboy wrote:I didn't realise that you were being so parochial.

You've... you've heard of Salmoneus before, right?

I feel more comfortable talking about unfamiliar things sometimes with a definite article. It somehow presents the noun more carefully. Which of these people, for example, do you think flies out Dorfenfutter more often, the one who calls it "The Dorfenfutter International Airport," or the one who ca...

Caleone wrote: honaker [hɔ.ˈnɪ.kə]
oreɡon [ɔ.ʋɛ.ɡn̥]
oreɡano [ə.ʋe͡ɪ̯.ɡə.no͡ʊ̯]

I didn't know Jonathon Ross was on the ZBB.

These are great examples, except "so:su," which certainly doesn't imply worchester sauce. It's used as a generic word for any kind of sauce. Constantly. All over the place. But yeah, there's plenty of other examples for Japanese terms for European things, like Clawgrip pointed out.

Bianca!

Lyra: ever make anything worth showing off? I recently started hollowing out a cave to make a goblin village. We should totally start a ZBB server. Not yet, I'm still quite nooby. I also have yet to buy the official game, need to save up some cash. ~Lyra It's. like, ten dollars. You could suck a co...

What are you people talking about with this Romance crap? Have you ever bothered to look up any of these names? They are all based on West African bastardizations of Arabic. For example, Jamal, Jameela, from Arabic "beautiful." Sure, many of them are completely improvised, but we can discount those ...

Also, I am this minute downloading Faster Than Light! Check it out, it was finally released today and it looks amazing! Edit: Holy Damn! Choose the torrent option if you download it, though. I'm on a Faster-Than-God's-Own-Fist Korean internet connection, and the massive demand for this file is slowi...

Lyra: ever make anything worth showing off? I recently started hollowing out a cave to make a goblin village. We should totally start a ZBB server.

This is the first Conlangery Podcast where I made myself read all the documents before listening. I'm going to listen to it tonight.

I have told Brandrinn the same just a few weeks ago, but it's probably gone under among the general discussion. Or Brandrinn hasn't read it. Or he doesn't remember reading it. However, there is no pay version of Audacity. http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38704&p=988687#p988687 I remember...

Why is the thumb in the middle? How are you supposed to fit your hand onto the keypad?