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I might have to yoink your customary-agentive suffix destinction. Esperanto does something similar with -anto and -isto I believe Yeah, its primary use has more of a connotation of "should" than -isto does and I use it a lot. It more or less provides a non-episodic interpretation and indi...

Commonthroat inflects nouns for deixis, almost completely lacks pronouns of any kind, vowels have phonemic length, tone AND volume, and it uses dreaming dog noises as phonemes. I'd say that's pretty extreme.

6th of Lexember zam "be a wheeled vehicle" from the ornative za "with", "having" plus yum "wheel". zaram "be a large, wheeled vehicle", with the augmentative infix -ar- . Zam evolved out of tihased (litters/palanquins/sedan chairs) to which wheels w...

Dawn of the Fifth Day. 616 Hours Remain https://i.imgur.com/3Q3K4HU.png rKGrg [chuff, long falling weakening growl, chuff, short low weak growl] Noun 1. Surface, especially of a planet or moon 2. the rind of a fruit This word is used in contrast with <qGKqg> (outer space), especially when discussin...

yeeeeeah I love exolangs! I posted a topic about non human phonologies that you might be interested in. I'll check it out! Thanks [:D] ! Not to keep shilling my own threads, but you might also be interested in this thread on "xenoergonomics" as I like to call it, or the tools, clothing, a...

Could a reasonably advanced civilization reasonably construct stations in interstellar space? What advancements that modern-day Earth doesn't have would be necessary to create one? There are a couple issues I can see with interstellar stations. Where do the resources come from? Interstellar space i...

do the colonies belong to anyone/anygroup in particular? maybe the longtrain is considered neutral territory? Of course then the question becomes if they can so easily live in microgravity where they can use all four paws and tail for grasping then why live planetside? My running explanation for th...

It may be worth pointing out that every trip to meet the orbital train would be as expensive as sending a rocket to space, because that's essentially what you'd be doing (the problem isn't sendin thins to 'space', the place, but to orbital velocity, which is even higher at sea level than in space)....

do the colonies belong to anyone/anygroup in particular? maybe the longtrain is considered neutral territory? Colonies at Focus are analogous to smallish islands on Earth. At least that's the economic analogy I'm going with. They range in autonomy from completely independent states to being 100% un...

yeeeeeah I love exolangs! I posted a topic about non human phonologies that you might be interested in. Just to be clear, I'm assuming the symbols you've chosen aren't meant to be read phonetically, correct? They're just placeholders for the pheromones used as phonemes? (I really wish linguists coul...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑03 Dec 2023 21:52 What is a good term for the boss/head of a wizard association/council? Also, what is a good term for that council?

Anything other than “Imperial Wizard”.

I'm no economist, so I have no idea if this would make sense, even for a Kardashev II civilization, particularly since I've already established that normal space colonies exist to fill this need. But the idea just sounds too cool to ignore.[/qauote]You could justify it if your society has rampant c...

Dawn of the Fourth Day. 641 Hours Remain qGKqg [huff, long rising strengthening growl, huff, short low weak growl] Noun Outer Space. The yinrih became a space-faring species a mere 5 thousand Earth years after achieving sapience. Having a written language right of the bat helps. By the time of Firs...

How stupid is this idea? I call it the sea-level orbiter. It's a long train in a vacuum tube using maglev tracks that circles the equator. It goes fast enough that centrifugal force equals the planet's gravity and allows the occupants to float. It's used both as a permanent living space and as a mea...

Working on a font for Commonthroat with Inkscape and FontForge. Making fonts is hard. I'm also learning about how OpenType and Unicode determine text direction. Hint: it's not as easy as saying "this font should be right-to-left".

Dawn of the Third Day. 665 Hours Remain https://i.imgur.com/ViPZ22T.png sbsPlHGg /yip, short low weak whine, yip, late falling weakening grunt, long low weakening growl, short low weak growl/ Etymology sb- (to cover with) + sPl (condensation, dew) + -HG (suffix on verbs forming nouns denoting an ev...

If I might ask, what is the relationship between rDFrlmqrLPq and the sounds you've listed? My initial thought was that one letter might correspond to one sound, but there appear to be more letters than sounds. Actually, it looks like <r> is "chuff", <DF> is "long high strengthening w...

Looks like this is supposed to be one post per day, so I split my original post. [hr] Dawn of the Second Day. 688 Hours Remain https://i.imgur.com/HhmnakP.png qBfrhKg /huff, late rising strengthening whine, chuff, early rising strong growl/ Etymology qBf (two) + rhK (wheel) Noun Bicycle To describe ...

https://i.imgur.com/ecYRx27.jpg The yinrih use a dozenal numeral system. The highest place value is closest to the beginning of the line, which means the digits decrease in value going from right to left. The yinrih also use a set of symbols representing orders of magnitude similar to how we use K,...

https://i.imgur.com/ecYRx27.jpg The yinrih use a dozenal numeral system. The highest place value is closest to the beginning of the line, which means the digits decrease in value going from right to left. The yinrih also use a set of symbols representing orders of magnitude similar to how we use K,...