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- 07 Apr 2024 10:12
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1944
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Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think a meat-only society would be pretty good for a sea-dwelling species. Using coral to slowly build things, for example (though it doesn't sound so viable.) depends on how often they need to build new structures, as opposed to continuing the use of a structure that may or may not be slowly exp...
- 06 Apr 2024 08:24
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 666178
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I had this idea for an anti-vegan society, i.e. they only use animal products, mostly because I thought it was funny. But then I looked at the way that Inuit people live and thought it might be possible. But even Inuits eat berries and almost certainly have medicinal uses for plants and fungi. Is t...
- 26 Mar 2024 02:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
- Replies: 490
- Views: 185276
- 21 Mar 2024 22:39
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2061
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
Hmm. Say the SVO uses a complicated array of prepositions and relational nouns, and the local cool-speak uses cases suffixes (with suffixaufnahme for good measure) or just subordinate verbs that haven't quite made the leap to adposition, I wouldn't expect the dying SVO to hop aboard to case suffixe...
- 21 Mar 2024 20:47
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2061
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
Hmm. Say the SVO uses a complicated array of prepositions and relational nouns, and the local cool-speak uses cases suffixes (with suffixaufnahme for good measure) or just subordinate verbs that haven't quite made the leap to adposition, I wouldn't expect the dying SVO to hop aboard to case suffixe...
- 19 Mar 2024 13:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3890
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
I want to attempt another diachronic language, after the failures of Techomonic and Goidheug. I'm not quite sure exactly what I'll do, though. I know that I want to go off of something that's well-reconstructed. maybe diachronic from one of your conlangs? I'm considering Old Chinese, since it's iso...
- 16 Mar 2024 22:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 756
- Views: 218838
- 19 Feb 2024 09:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So it's three divinities that are equal in what they are made of, but choose to do different functions? One divinity; as three would be polytheism. Hopefully this will be of more help: in most Christian denominations, Jesus is seen as being both human and divine -- but not half of each...rather, 10...
- 18 Feb 2024 08:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I was thinking on names in Christianity in general. Again, not a small thing, but I'll give it a try... A lot of what some people treat as divine names in Christianity, are better grasped if you uncapitalise them, whence you can see they are mostly job descriptions, telling what roles that God (and...
- 17 Feb 2024 23:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: Why does God need a name?
Say what? I can't think of any Christian denomination, wherein you could say "the holy name of God's Only Begotten Son is Bob, not Jesus" or "...is Richard Nixon" and not be stared at in disbelief until you walk away. I know. I noted that I realized I was wrong what I said about...
- 17 Feb 2024 23:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 904
- Views: 214011
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
I'm skeptical whether a language would ever have a convention as specific as requiring all nouns to be accompanied by adjectives of material and position in all instances, though. Imagine: "help, a shark is eating my leg!" - "I'm afraid your sentence is ungrammatical child, and so I ...
- 16 Feb 2024 12:44
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: Why does God need a name?
Everything named has a name etc. Judaism, Islam, and Sikhi off the top of my head care a lot about Names - though each in different ways. I tried to illustrate that a little above - though that wasn't my main point. You claimed it, but you haven't illustrated it. In what way is the precise name we ...
- 16 Feb 2024 12:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Not trying to go full philosophical here, but couldn't you say that a singular entity contrast with other potential but non-existent entities if the same kind? I was thinking of stuff like "There is only one god and his name is X", which implies that any claim that something with name Y i...
- 14 Feb 2024 21:30
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: Why does God need a name?
(I posted this here instead of C&C Quick Questions because I’m asking about RL monotheisms.) In a monotheistic religion, where it’s believed only one god exists at all (rather that only one is served or worshipped, as in monolatry or henotheism), why does such a god need a name? (Especially in ...
- 12 Feb 2024 10:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 671
- Views: 173354
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
a priori in the strong sense languages, measure their success by the smallness of their lexicon... No they don't. oh you are adept at the new use of "a priori" for "with invented lexicon", There is less than no reason to be rude about things. note that I specified "in the s...
- 30 Jan 2024 05:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Whereas in a syllabary you have to learn all of the hundreds of syllable symbols independently. hundreds? what happened to the use of this? __ | -e | -a | -o | b- | t- | n- | Well, that's still 9 different unrelated symbols to learn. ?? Unrelated? The point of such charts, for languages like Hindi ...
- 29 Jan 2024 05:48
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm sorry if my last post sounded aggressive; I'm just frustrated with myself, because after writing hundreds and hundred of words to explain something that to me seems incredibly obvious and originates in about two sentences on wikipedia, evidently I'm still speaking gibberish that nobody can unde...
- 28 Jan 2024 22:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm sorry if my last post sounded aggressive; I'm just frustrated with myself, because after writing hundreds and hundred of words to explain something that to me seems incredibly obvious and originates in about two sentences on wikipedia, evidently I'm still speaking gibberish that nobody can unde...
- 28 Jan 2024 11:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In English, the symbolic representation of the SYLLABLE consists of (at least) TWO PARTS. One part represents the ONSET CONSONANT. The other part represents the VOWEL NUCLEUS. The SYLLABLE-SYMBOL can be "decomposed" into two parts - that is, it can be analysed of consisting of two parts. ...
- 28 Jan 2024 02:22
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 295914
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Okay, replying to this before reading your more recent post. Systematic means having a coherent system. So, for instance, if you have the syllable-symbol BA and add a mark to make it BAN, and you have a syllable-symbol PA and add the same mark to make it PAN, that's a systematic relationship between...