Verdurian more popular than Ilkorin!
Verdurian more popular than Ilkorin!
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Yea! Is there any way we can vote for these or something?
Speaking of which, I took a look at lexicon sizes listed at langmaker.com, and the only languages listed as having more words than Verdurian were auxlangs like Esperanto and Lojban. Could this mean Verdurian is the most thoroughly developed fictional conlang out of the 1,000+ catalogued at langmaker.com, or maybe even the world? Even Quenya is only listed as having 1600 words. Truly fascinating.
Speaking of which, I took a look at lexicon sizes listed at langmaker.com, and the only languages listed as having more words than Verdurian were auxlangs like Esperanto and Lojban. Could this mean Verdurian is the most thoroughly developed fictional conlang out of the 1,000+ catalogued at langmaker.com, or maybe even the world? Even Quenya is only listed as having 1600 words. Truly fascinating.
That'd be cool, but you're missing a few on the site, including our own G?bor S?ndi's Tundrian. Yiklamu claims an astonishing 90,000 words. Talossan has an impressive 30,000.valinta wrote:Speaking of which, I took a look at lexicon sizes listed at langmaker.com, and the only languages listed as having more words than Verdurian were auxlangs like Esperanto and Lojban. Could this mean Verdurian is the most thoroughly developed fictional conlang out of the 1,000+ catalogued at langmaker.com, or maybe even the world? Even Quenya is only listed as having 1600 words. Truly fascinating.
Sorry, my mistake. However, you can probably get first place in something if the category is narrowed a bit
-Largest Vocabulary for a Romance/alternate history language-
1. Talossan
2. Tundrian
-Largest Vocabulary for a from-scratch fictional world conlang-
1. Verdurian
Yay! I might still be wrong but it's not a big deal (as long as I realize the possiblility). One thing I'm definitely doing when I get the time is checking out Tundrian and Talossan; they look really neat. Anyway, I better stop before I unintentionally change the topic of the thread.
-Largest Vocabulary for a Romance/alternate history language-
1. Talossan
2. Tundrian
-Largest Vocabulary for a from-scratch fictional world conlang-
1. Verdurian
Yay! I might still be wrong but it's not a big deal (as long as I realize the possiblility). One thing I'm definitely doing when I get the time is checking out Tundrian and Talossan; they look really neat. Anyway, I better stop before I unintentionally change the topic of the thread.
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Ah, the mysteries of hits and page counts.valinta wrote:I always wondered, when they have those pages that measure hits to determine stuff, do they measure hits from unique IP addresses/users or just all hits?
Here, FYI, is what the raw data looks like: a single line from a log file-- a single hit. As you can see, you get the domain that's the source of the request, the time, the item requested, the referring page, and some miscellaneous stuff.
bru-s2.bruessel.goethe.org - - [02/Nov/2002:02:43:05 -0600] "GET /verdurian.htm HTTP/1.0" 304 - "http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars1.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
With some thought, you'll see some of the problems in counting hits. You can see multiple hits from the same domain-- so Jeff could pretty easily detect bombing. On the other hand you can't detect cacheing; you have no idea if an ISP is cacheing your page and serving it up to multiple clients.
In short, there's no way to actually detect how many distinct people are viewing your pages. Page hits are a good clue but they're not the same thing.
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We'll see what happens when Babblers is published, then.zompist wrote:I'd look at it the other way... Verdurian is doing pretty well for a web-based language with no paid publicity, against a multi-bestselling sf author.Ghost wrote:*gets angry and breaks a few spinal cords*Mercator wrote:Robert Jordan's Old Tongue is beating Verdurian 1002 to 759!
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When it gets published, I am going to buy 20 copies and distribute them to my family. and then get 10 more to just seal off in a vault.Ghost wrote:We'll see what happens when Babblers is published, then.zompist wrote:I'd look at it the other way... Verdurian is doing pretty well for a web-based language with no paid publicity, against a multi-bestselling sf author.Ghost wrote:*gets angry and breaks a few spinal cords*Mercator wrote:Robert Jordan's Old Tongue is beating Verdurian 1002 to 759!
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Of course, this necessitates having money.
BTW, I would say Talossan probably wins the prize for the largest "real" vocabulary list. Yiklamu does indeed have 90000 words ... in fact, 90000 word roots ... but the meanings were lifted directly from the WordNet thesaurus and therefore don't really contain any creative work from the author. Anyone with enough time and patience could do the exact same thing (in fact, I was planning on doing it once, but it turned out to be harder than it looked at first).zompist wrote:That'd be cool, but you're missing a few on the site, including our own G?bor S?ndi's Tundrian. Yiklamu claims an astonishing 90,000 words. Talossan has an impressive 30,000.valinta wrote:Speaking of which, I took a look at lexicon sizes listed at langmaker.com, and the only languages listed as having more words than Verdurian were auxlangs like Esperanto and Lojban. Could this mean Verdurian is the most thoroughly developed fictional conlang out of the 1,000+ catalogued at langmaker.com, or maybe even the world? Even Quenya is only listed as having 1600 words. Truly fascinating.
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Oooh... Zomp, when Babblers gets published (note how we're all saying "when"; what faith we have in you!), can the ZBB members get signed copies? Personalised signed copies? I'd be willing to pay extra for one
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indeed, definately! i agree with all that! a signed first edition copy!Rory wrote:Oooh... Zomp, when Babblers gets published (note how we're all saying "when"; what faith we have in you!), can the ZBB members get signed copies? Personalised signed copies? I'd be willing to pay extra for one
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