What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]

[Adarain]

I have written a LaTeX package that lets me input PIE stuff in ascii and convert it into PIE orthography, complete with specification for alternatives such as using a circumflex instead of acute or i/u with acute below instead of y/w.

Let me tell you one thing: TeX is a horrible language to code in.

[Threr]

I translated a poem of Victor Hugo : "My two daughters".
It was quiet difficult and took me almost an hour, but I'm proud of my work. ~

[Ahzoh]

Made a shield for Vrkhazhian military too:

Spoiler:

[Lambuzhao]

@Ahzoh

I think you copypasta'd some kind of polearm instead of a shield, there.


cannot wait to see it.

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Well, I was looking for an Akkadian (cuneiform) cognate to Syriac ܐܫܝܬܐ
Arabic آسِيَة and Hebrew אָשְׁיָה

and, well, I stumbled upon this ring. But it's not just any ring, it's quite special:

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/


And you cannot haves it!

[Ahzoh]

@Ahzoh

I think you copypasta'd some kind of polearm instead of a shield, there.


cannot wait to see it.

You're supposed to scroll right on the image, it's at the very end. Conversely, one could rightclick "view image".

[Lambuzhao]

Pšenkňa!
Forgive!

[Ahzoh]

I think the shield is reminiscent of those Zulu shields and has a nice metal-and-wood tortoise-shell pattern, with the edge reinforced with hide.

[Keenir]

and, well, I stumbled upon this ring. But it's not just any ring, it's quite special:

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/


And you cannot haves it!

(tis okay, i just watch/admire from waaaaaaay over here where tis safe from Influence) :)

seriously, that is just awesomeness. (reminded me of the idea that the One Ring's language was based in part on Hurrian)

[elemtilas]

Happy-happy-joy-joy!

Discovered the felicity of library tape today! Tears like silk tape, doesn't bunch and stick in a wad like duct tape, makes broken book spines almost as good as new again! Woohoo!

Yep. Doesn't take much...

[Ahzoh]

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/

I wonder if there are languages where ring the jewelry is a different word than ring the shape.

I also translated the ring verse:
http://conworkshop.info/translation.php ... 9840&l=YVU


I deem that one Sedu's two moons, Šuṟdi, will have a ring around it approximately 5955km from it

Šuṟdi is also the size of 0.342 earths with a density 3.19g/cm^3.

[DesEsseintes]

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/

I wonder if there are languages where ring the jewelry is a different word than ring the shape.

Mandarin is one, 戒指 is ring (on finger), 圆(形) is ring (shape).

All the Romance languages I know. French bague and Italian anello are always the jewellery, never the shape as far as I'm aware. Perhaps the question should be whether any non-Germanic languages exhibit this polysemy?

[gestaltist]

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/

I wonder if there are languages where ring the jewelry is a different word than ring the shape.

Mandarin is one, 戒指 is ring (on finger), 圆(形) is ring (shape).

All the Romance languages I know. French bague and Italian anello are always the jewellery, never the shape as far as I'm aware. Perhaps the question should be whether any non-Germanic languages exhibit this polysemy?

Polish kinda does.

"Pierścień" means both the jewellery and the shape ("pierścień ognia" = "a ring of fire"). There is also "(o)krąg", however, which only means the shape.

[qwed117]

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/

I wonder if there are languages where ring the jewelry is a different word than ring the shape.

Mandarin is one, 戒指 is ring (on finger), 圆(形) is ring (shape).

All the Romance languages I know. French bague and Italian anello are always the jewellery, never the shape as far as I'm aware. Perhaps the question should be whether any non-Germanic languages exhibit this polysemy?

Polish kinda does.

"Pierścień" means both the jewellery and the shape ("pierścień ognia" = "a ring of fire"). There is also "(o)krąg", however, which only means the shape.

Spanish is like Polish, except opposite. Anill@ means both jewelry and shape, while sortija means only jewelry.

[elemtilas]

Well, I stumbled upon this ring. But it's not just any ring, it's quite special:

Ištēt Unqum
https://tedsakkadian.wordpress.com/2011 ... tet-unqum/

Spoiler:

Alright, that does it!

Gotta learn me some Sumerian and Akkadian!

It's not like the Sumerian-analog isn't a key classical language among Men in The World, doncha know! And Akkadian still finds its uses as well (religious, mostly).

[DesEsseintes]

My latest ideas for Sōkoan vowel harmony:

The inventory is as follows:

/o ɑ a ɛ e/ o ă a ĕ e
/u ɯ ɨ i/ u ŭ ĭ ı

- High-vowel harmony distinguishes four degrees of backness. Any morpheme with the archiphonemic vowel I has this assimilate in backness to one of u ŭ ĭ ı. As an example, the suffix /iri/ has four allomorphs: -ırı -ĭrĭ -ŭrŭ -uru
- Low-vowel harmony only affects the vowels ă ĕ which are realisations of the archiphoneme Æ; as an example, the suffix /gæ/ has two allomorphs -gă -gĕ
- Suffixes with the vowels o a e eı can be added to words irrespective of vowel harmony

Here, have a table:

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← back      front → 
o   ɑ   a   ɛ   e
u   ɯ       ɨ   i 

And, as a bonus, a more schematic representation of the vowel space:

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← front     back → 
i      ɨ      ɯ  u
  e              o
     ɛ
         a    ɑ

[Ahzoh]

I did a lot of math stuff for Sedi's three moons:
http://conworkshop.info/view_article.ph ... 552aab50d3

[DesEsseintes]

The New Sōkoan might look sth like this:

eıttłăghărtŭnŭmŭŭgo

So that's an achievement then. Much breve. Many vowel harmony.

[Threr]

I created a Java program to translate current time to my conworld time (based on Paris time).

[Axiem]

I did a lot of math stuff for Sedi's three moons:
http://conworkshop.info/view_article.ph ... 552aab50d3

Nice! I'm working on similar for mine, though I keep getting distracted with other things. Did you just do all the math by hand, or by spreadsheet, or does CWS have useful tools for this sort of thing?

[Ahzoh]

I did a lot of math stuff for Sedi's three moons:
http://conworkshop.info/view_article.ph ... 552aab50d3

Nice! I'm working on similar for mine, though I keep getting distracted with other things. Did you just do all the math by hand, or by spreadsheet, or does CWS have useful tools for this sort of thing?

I did by the glorious calculators on the internet. There is a third law of kepler calc for calculating time it takes to revolve around an object, one for finding tidal forces, and some others.