Creativity of the day

[el imiradu]

Ceresz - I love your pictures.

[ol bofosh]

Just come up with an idea: an ecolang with no verbs. The verbs are "emergent properties" that are somehow inferred through the relationships between the nouns, which will probably end up with complex inflections. One morphere will probably be "verb-like", perhaps based on minimalist verbal concepts (movement, state, possesion, sense, etc.). Noun phrases will probably be synthetic.

[Shrdlu]

Gonna copy this from other place,

Consonant length decide plural. For all other words with no /tt[t:] kk[k:] dd[d:] gg[g:]/ it is an prefix instead, ch(i).*
Made some big changes to the nominal phonology.

*
Kuweiti. The man
Kuweitti. The men
Ofo. The father
Chofo. The father(plural)
Kilu. The woman
Chikilu. The woman(plural)

also, GIMP is great to fuck around with if you want to spice up your avatars.

[ol bofosh]

Ecolang:

Words would be inflected for benefit/detriment/neutral, and also PATIENT/AGENT. There will be a limited number of "verb" inflections, which when combined with the above inflections produces certain "emergent properties" or verbs, without having independent verbs.

"I open the door" would be glossed as...

1SG.hold.BENEFIT.AGENT door.move.NEUTRAL.PATIENT.obstacle.be.hole

"I close the door"
1SG.hold.BENEFIT.AGENT door.move.NEUTRAL.PATIENT.hole.be.obstacle

Or simply "I move the door"

1SG.hold.BENEFIT.AGENT door.move.NEUTRAL.PATIENT

The agent holds the patient, the affect of which is that the patient moves. The verb emerges through the unique combination of inflections.

Beautiful, ain't it?

(I say "neutral" for the door because I don't see the benefit for it, except it is fulfilling its function, so maybe "benefit", not neutral).

[Viktor77]

MS Paint pixel of one of my favourite houses.

WHCrockerMansion4.png (51.55 KiB) Viewed 5353 times

Formerly of Nob Hill, San Francisco, William Crocker mansion. Destroyed by the 1906 earthquake of course.

[clawgrip]

Nice picture, Viktor.

I can't let vampireshark be the only one making money, so here is one from me:

Swamperian money:



Any suggestions to make it more old-timey looking, or does it look okay as is?

[Torco]

Well, generally printing money is expensive; i would expect oltimey money, any money really, to have more stuff going on. drawing, lines, squiggles, you know, the kind of thing that is in money: like this.







Also, money tends to be low-contrast in my mind, for some reason.

Finally, like... no such thing as a new banknote, cause they get passed around a lot... they should look weathered.

[Herr Dunkel]

Yay me

[Torco]

kewl!
he looks like he's just been ordered to have sex with the female he secretly wants to have sex with but doesn't want anyone to know about

[Hallow XIII]

kewl!
he looks like he's just been ordered to have sex with the female he secretly wants to have sex with but doesn't want anyone to know about

[Aurora Rossa]

I second that, Naellow XIII.

[Izambri]

Ah, Human-Turian sex. Nice.

[Torco]

no sublimation here, move along.

[Herr Dunkel]

lol I doubt I'll be drawing interspecies smut any time soon, and if I do it'll be only straight

[Izambri]

no sublimation here, move along.

Which do you prefer, Turian Fox or Turian Steele? I'm hesitant...

[Herr Dunkel]

Turian Fox has appeal to it

[clawgrip]

Thanks Torco. The one thing I was having trouble figuring out is that it is supposed to look old-timey, but not old because it is supposed to be contemporary, not an ancient relic. Having trouble figuring out how weathered to make it look.

[Shm Jay]

he looks like he's just been ordered to have sex

I think Torco’s penis wants to be inserted into something.

[Torco]

Nikki Turian xD

How weathered? anything more than not weathered at all, really... like, any bill will be somewhere between really new and hugely weathered [the second being more or less dependent on monetary policy], its just unlikely to be new new [bills only last new new for like a week, and then there's years and years of faithful service]

<<< GEDDIT? BECAUSE MONEY IS FIAT AND THUS IMAGINARY, AND DEPENDS ON US HAVING FAITH ON IT? GEDDIT? GEDDIT? OKAY ILL GO DIE NOW>>>

[clawgrip]

Yeah. I'm going to work on adding more details to the bill and figuring out how to make it look more realistic. I was having trouble figuring out the best way to simulate old-style printing. Some of those closeup ones may help me out a bit.

[vampireshark]

Yeah. I'm going to work on adding more details to the bill and figuring out how to make it look more realistic. I was having trouble figuring out the best way to simulate old-style printing. Some of those closeup ones may help me out a bit.

While what the Chilean said is very much correct, I present to you a banknote that served the UK until about 1956 or so:

If there's some sort of bank seal, add that. Those appear quite frequently.

But I'm delighted to see more people producing money. How much is the banknote you posted worth (roughly speaking)?


Naelector Dark/Elector Dark: I, myself, prefer krogan. And quarians. But not bad.

[clawgrip]

It is 100 of the currency (uinjik), but I have not decided exactly how much 100 uinjik is worth. Maybe I should reduce it to ten or five or something.

Here is the new version, with more stuff going on, slightly less crisp lettering to mimic old-fashioned printing, and more weathering.



I'll have to do the reverse side too.

[Torco]

not bad but remember, ancients didn't have photoshop and, thus, endlessly repeating patterns were not easier than, say, a field or random or semirandom squiggles. Also, I guess these guys are not into pictorial representation, like our muslims?

[clawgrip]

Those are two issues I was thinking about. I'm not sure yet what to do about the pattern. We'll consider it a placeholder for now, and I'll see if I can think of something more interesting. As for the pictures, I just didn't really feel like putting pictures in it. Not particularly for any religious reason, I just had a feeling I didn't want pictures on it so much as abstract patterns.

I appreciate the constructive feedback.

[Herr Dunkel]

It is 100 of the currency (uinjik), but I have not decided exactly how much 100 uinjik is worth. Maybe I should reduce it to ten or five or something.

Here is the new version, with more stuff going on, slightly less crisp lettering to mimic old-fashioned printing, and more weathering.

-SNIP-

I'll have to do the reverse side too.

I like, honestly said. What does the text mean?

Naelector Dark/Elector Dark: I, myself, prefer krogan. And quarians. But not bad.

Thanks you.