Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.

[Torco]

the one of -123 ?

[cybrxkhan]

Well, I guess I might as well start a bit of re-doing the Qicui a bit here and there. Doesn't hurt, anyways, since they're also a maritime trading power city-states mass in my conworld, so I need to develop them anyhoo.


@Lyhoko:

So I just dug up some of the stuff we were doing, and I remembered our two concultures had some involvement and/or linguistic similarities to each other, so I just wanted to resurface those notes here about our sprachbund.

Features:

• Tons of plosives
• diphthongs
• lateral fricative(s)
• uvulars
• simple syllable structure - CV(C) vs. (C)V(C)
• VSO (possibly with some shift to SVO?)
• affixes
• verb conjugation
• locative prefixes
• singular-dual-plural?
• passive/active?
• Cardinal numbers follow the noun, as do adjectives, but ordinal numbers precede the noun, and otherwise have the same form as cardinal numbers.
• human/god-animate-inanimate genders

I think. Did I miss anything, or add anything that shouldn't be there? Maybe the number difference one could be described as generally, adjectives follow the noun, but precede the noun when indicating a specific one...

Definite articles, but no indefinite articles.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

Rcodejh's gender system ended up becoming a basic masculine-feminine-neuter, but other than that the stuff listed there still applies. It's ergative with tri/bi consonantal roots as well, if you want something to replace that.

[Pogostick Man]

the one of -123 ?

Yeah, I think so. The one between your guys, my guys, and the Qicui.

[cybrxkhan]

Rcodejh's gender system ended up becoming a basic masculine-feminine-neuter, but other than that the stuff listed there still applies. It's ergative with tri/bi consonantal roots as well, if you want something to replace that.

I think I'm going to do changes to Proto-Qicui (some will be somewhat significant, such as SVO instead of VSO), but I'll try to keep as many of these features we have here as possible.

[Pogostick Man]

I kind of want to get this back up and kicking again—and am especially interested in fleshing out our world war.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

Who all exactly is still around?

Also, is this the Qicui + Baktarci vs. Ǧakærirr U (and later Mai) war? It's been awhile and I don't remember everything from here, I'll need to search through the wiki.

[Pogostick Man]

Also, is this the Qicui + Baktarci vs. Ǧakærirr U (and later Mai) war? It's been awhile and I don't remember everything from here, I'll need to search through the wiki.

That is exactly the one I'm talking about.

[Torco]

i raise the motion that we need a dictator who will organize and mobilize our efforts in a most virile fashion, for a better socialist tomorrow

[Torco]

Doth no one have sufficient will zu macht to be our beloved tyrant ?

[Pogostick Man]

Doth no one have sufficient will zu macht to be our beloved tyrant ?

You want me to step up to the plate?

[Torco]

/me puts on a pope costume
/me crowns Pogo as Imperator of the Collab
I hereby dub thee Pogo, First of his Name

...how do you go about necroing a collab, though ?

[Pogostick Man]

...how do you go about necroing a collab, though ?

You find a Red Marker and let it animate nearby dead threads. Of course, if the situation gets too hairy then you should keep a CEC engineer on retainer to deal with the issue.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

...how do you go about necroing a collab, though ?

You find a Red Marker and let it animate nearby dead threads. Of course, if the situation gets too hairy then you should keep a CEC engineer on retainer to deal with the issue.

Or you could infuse it with plenty of daidao, but if its soul is missing, then you get a zombie.