The CBB

As you'll see, I have pentagon, hexagon, octagon . . . but leave out heptagon, enneagon, decagon, hendecagon, and dodecagon as too uncommon for a core word list. I mean, when was the last time you talked about hendecagons? Well, Canadian dollars are hendecagonal, so I am certain it's a robust lexem...

And also apparently misspell Geroge Carlin, at no extra cost! [xP] Worth the price of admission to see two posts from you! Interesting to note that, in a curiously distant part of some world or other, there is an entirely inoffensive and everyday household article, a brass oil lamp in fact, known a...

Does anyone know of any demigoddesses (female demigods) in mythology? Does anyone know of any demigod with a mortal father and a divine mother? The Font of All Knowledge has a nice list, too! Right off hand, I can see Achilles, Turnus, Kabundungulu, the sons of Laun Sina, Bhishma, Apo Anno, Gwydion...

Oo excellent! An update!

For now, all I can say is that we'll need a bigger fly swatter!

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑12 Aug 2021 00:36 Was the OP question ever answered?

Hehe!

I don't think so! Thread got hijacked by an emerald wasp.

At least I learnt that honeybees came over on the Mayflower!

Salmoneus wrote: ↑11 Aug 2021 19:54
stuff

I give up!

It's all honeywasps and bumblehornets from here on out, because, obviously, I have no way of distinguishing a bee from a wasp that you'll ever accept.

I'm not sure non-scientists have any way to distinguish bees from wasps. This I don't understand. Why can't non-scientists distinguish bees from wasps? Or do you mean something else? It's really not that hard. ...I already explained this. If you had, I wouldn't have asked for clarification. I think...

I'm not sure non-scientists have any way to distinguish bees from wasps. Indeed, bees in a sense ARE wasps - a wasp is any wasp that isn't a bee or an ant or a sawfly. Apparently you can identify wasps by their branched hairs, the bifurcation of the seventh dorsal abdominal plate in females, and by...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑09 Aug 2021 17:45

elemtilas wrote: ↑08 Aug 2021 05:38 Curious, though I couldn't find that term. I could only find Doktormutter.

?? Maybe I should have said “used to be” instead of “is”?

Search me!

I'll leave that to the Germanists!

Yeah, I wasn't expecting an answer from the OP. It's more a request for elaboration for anyone who read it and went "yeah sounds reasonable". 2011 was before my time here (I think!), but this thread keeps bobbing up to the surface like a chunk of ambergris and has been quite interesting i...

Well, I agree with you on that. Taking the word for "father" and creating the word for "mother", not with an M, but by adding a feminizing suffix, seems . . . . non-human. I could almost say "unnaturalistic". (Though as soon as I said it, I expect someone to shock me w...

Do most of you prefer using <k> as opposed to <c> to represent the /k/ sound in your languages? I've been thinking of using <c> in Arculese, in part because /k/ is pronounced more like /c/ before front vowels, but unfortunately whenever I do this Arculese starts to have, for me, a "Romance&quo...

Well, I agree with you on that. Taking the word for "father" and creating the word for "mother", not with an M, but by adding a feminizing suffix, seems . . . . non-human. I could almost say "unnaturalistic". (Though as soon as I said it, I expect someone to shock me w...

I for one think it's awesome [:D] I'm always impressed by intelligence and enjoy hearing about academic and intellectual accomplishments. It has to be more socially acceptable to talk about good things in our lives. It can't just be commiseration all the time. Indeed! It strikes me that people (in ...

I know news of attaining status there meets a negative reception sometimes. I…kind of feel embarrassed sharing it, like it negatively reflects on me that I’m like “Ooh, I’m in Mensa! Nyah-nyah” and that’s not how I want to come across at all. Kind of a Catch-22. Possibly cases of badly done sit-com...

That's even more introverted than I pictured you! Surprise? You do have some friends, though, right -- you just don't phone them? Do you have friends you know in person whom you speak with online (the way I met my friends Lamesha, Oneika, and Ellen in person and now talk with them on Facebook)? Yes...

I don't hate Esperanto, however, some people (generally of the n00blanger sort) think its biggest downfall is its accusative -n, whereas I would say Esperanto's biggest downfall is its male-as-default sexism. Curious. While I am extremely hesitant to throw around accusative terms like that, having ...

To the introverts here: How do you feel when you make some big-time accomplishment in conworlding? To answer your question, leastways for me, I don't really feel anything. If anything, I suppose it could be said that I "rest content with the work, though never quite satisfied with the result&q...

Anyway, to be back on topic, it seems that your link verifies what we observe. Members here seem to hate that auxlang because it isn't complex enough, however I hate it because it is not simple enough.

And some of don't hate it at all!

Or maybe just one of us after all...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑30 Jul 2021 08:16 Question: Was the name Ruritania inspired by this?

Or by this?

Or by something else?

I hadn't heard of that! Ruritanian romance!

I had heard the name Ruritania in connection with ocean liners, though. Sounds like such a familiar name!