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- 07 Sep 2020 11:26
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: If you were to write one novel...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 15855
Re: If you were to write one novel...
After several false starts with other settings, I've now finally written a novel set in the "past" of my conworld, which I'm currently releasing in installments here . It's set in a period technologically and socially similar in many ways to early nineteenth century Europe, and I've gone f...
- 03 Aug 2020 21:51
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299953
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I personally would go for Lanriung. Laanreoong or something might more reliably get you the right pronunciation, but I think it looks a bit weird.Evni Öpiu-sä wrote: ↑02 Aug 2020 09:51 My newest and largest conlang's name is pronounced [ˈlɑnriuŋ] in the language. How is it spelled in English?
- 12 Jul 2020 19:31
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: What would be the best approach for an Antarctic 'lang?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10515
Re: What would be the best approach for an Antarctic 'lang?
I guess a relevant question to ask for this is when the Antarcticans are supposed to have arrived there in the first place. If relatively recently (I dunno, a thousand years), then an observable relationship with some other language very far south is more likely, but if they've been there some time ...
- 12 Jul 2020 19:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: What if Aztlan and Atlantis were cognate names?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9514
Re: What if Aztlan and Atlantis were cognate names?
Salmoneus is right that is a place-name suffix: Az-tlan gives us the name of the place (cf. Tenochtitlan and lots of others), and Az-tēcah the name of the people.
- 05 May 2020 22:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The longest and the shortest word in your conlang
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16427
Re: The longest and the shortest word in your conlang
Viksen has a few words which consist of just one phoneme: a "one" (number), á "at, to", e "he/she", i "one" (impersonal pronoun), u "I", ai /i/ "oh yes!", au /u/ "same". The longest word in the lexicon at the moment is tig·wódég·o...
- 29 Apr 2020 17:39
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: How NOT to Conworld.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 88701
Re: How NOT to Conworld.
Nobody on my conworld strictly resembles people from any real-world race. While they are basically human, the distribution of "racial characteristics" is entirely different.
- 29 Apr 2020 17:23
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: the Eastern Semihemisphere?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2343
Re: the Eastern Semihemisphere?
There's at least some overlap with "the Far East", depending on exactly which region you're thinking of. "The Very Far East"?? It's not perfect, but it's not so many syllables ...
- 21 Apr 2020 19:40
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Some questions about part of speech
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2382
Re: Some questions about part of speech
Part of the purpose of this sort of exercise (at least at graduate level, I would hope) is to get students to think about tricky questions - is "eating" really a verb here? Why isn't it an adjective or a noun, given it can be used as an adjective or a noun in other contexts? "give me ...
- 15 Apr 2020 22:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 13735
Re: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
I try to pronounce bits occasionally, but my accent is appalling!
- 19 Mar 2020 16:52
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Postpositional to Prespositional: Side-Effects? Even Possible?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1739
Re: Postpositional to Prespositional: Side-Effects? Even Possible?
A consequence of the shift from postpositional to prepositional order may be that a limited class of elements continue to be postpositions even in a language which is generally prepositional (e.g. English ago , or the postpositional use of through Salmoneus gives). Something it's also worth being aw...
- 29 Jul 2019 19:03
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is diachronic conlanging worth it?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5579
Re: Is diachronic conlanging worth it?
The one really big advantage of having a proto-language is that it allows you an easy way of coming up with related languages, or of representing texts from earlier stages of the language if you decide to delve into the history of your culture. Trying to work backwards and create realistic relatives...
- 23 May 2019 12:23
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Jumping down rabbit holes with conlangs and concultures
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3279
Re: Jumping down rabbit holes with conlangs and concultures
When I create a world specifically as a setting for a work of fiction, I tend to find myself distracted by irrelevant details sooner or later. I have, for example, a 2000-year royal genealogy and a fairly detailed conlang sketch for one novel series that are unlikely to ever find their way into the ...
- 22 Mar 2019 14:01
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Writing a Fictional Anthropology: How Do You Do It?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4870
Re: Writing a Fictional Anthropology: How Do You Do It?
Do you mean the Ethnographic Atlas? There's a version at https://d-place.org/contributions/EA .
(Even if this isn't what you meant, it's still a useful resource.)
- 22 Feb 2019 18:29
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Conculture/Conpeople Opinions Thread
- Replies: 501
- Views: 183121
Re: The Conculture/Conpeople Opinions Thread
Many Viksorians, especially the richer sort, keep horses as pets. Dogs are popular, and there's a bit of a thing for domesticated foxes. There is an armadillo-like creature is kept as a pet commonly enough not to be thought of as unusual, though due to its size a big house or garden is usually requi...
- 22 Feb 2019 18:18
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: what should my bug people eat
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5422
Re: what should my bug people eat
I think they should eat the same things as real bugs do (which gives you a range of options). I don't think sapient species eating each other is necessarily bad. Why should your spider people have the same moral views as twenty-first century humans?
- 18 Feb 2019 14:27
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Conlang accents
- Replies: 83
- Views: 29840
Re: Conlang accents
Viksen: [ɔ hiumæn bijiɳʐ ɑ bɔn fri æn ikwɔ in diɡniti æn rajts. dɛj ɑ indawd wid rizæn æn kɔɳʂænz æn ʂæd ak tæwɔdz wæn ænædæ in æ sæpirit æv brædæhæd] Greater Atlian: [aːl hiuːmen bijin aːɾ baːɾn fɾi en i ikwel in diɡniti en ɾaitse. dej aːɾ endaud wid ɾiːsen en konʃense en ʃed akte towaːd wan enadeɾ...
- 18 Feb 2019 14:14
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: underused settings in world building
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14665
Re: underused settings in world building
No, we have a lot more school settings. School has the great advantage that everybody has to be there, whether they want to be or not, which automatically creates a narrative. University, people are only there because they want to be, and they have much more power over their own lives, which is muc...
- 08 Feb 2019 15:10
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: underused settings in world building
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14665
Re: underused settings in world building
No, we have a lot more school settings. School has the great advantage that everybody has to be there, whether they want to be or not, which automatically creates a narrative. University, people are only there because they want to be, and they have much more power over their own lives, which is muc...
- 06 Sep 2018 11:39
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Dealing with Conlanger's Block
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15337
Re: Dealing with Conlanger's Block
Seen this thread a hundred times; finally thought of something to say! Most of my conlanging arises from conworlding. I'm working on some aspect of the culture, and I need a word, or a phrase, and it all takes off from there ... So maybe laying languages aside and focusing on other aspects of the wo...
- 04 Aug 2018 12:33
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Are AIs alive? Do they have souls?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20890
Re: Are AIs alive? Do they have souls?
Very interesting thread! The classical Ninibian conception of a "soul" was the substance sirenu , variously translated "life", "breath", "spirit" etc. Sirenu was an elemental fluid that it was believed to be present in living things (i.e. humans and animals, p...