I have mixed feelings about the whole "autism cure" issue. To be perfectly honest, I don't think there will ever be a cure, so in some ways I think the discussion is moot. On the other hand, I understand wanting to know where autism comes from and why it has suddenly become more prevalent, but I als...

Finally subscribed to them on Twitter earlier this year. Just listened to the new short. I thought they made a lot of good points. When I look up a language's phonology on Wikipedia, reading the notes and descriptions beneath is always more helpful than just looking at a chart of sounds, even if the...

A guy on another site I frequent said "Arabic is so hard that even people born to it don't speak it correctly all the time". Then he made a baffling statement suggesting that the Romans were not native to Latium and they "adopted" the Latin language for themselves. [:|] [>:|] [>:(] Someone's been ta...

Thank you all for the information [:)] I sort of see the Mantian religion as being a combination of both of those ideas you mention, Salmoneus. On one hand, it could be said that it's a variation on monotheism, considering that the 12 are inseparable, they only exist as long as they exist together, ...

Are there examples of polytheistic religions where the number of deities is fixed? I know the Game of Thrones religion is like that, but any real-life examples? This is how I view the Mantian religion: it consists of a pantheon of 12 deities, six gods and six goddesses, but the number is very much f...

The only thing that's really weird about Lihmelinyan is the voiceless bidental fricative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_bidental_fricative It's a sound so rare that it's only known to occur in one dialect of one language, Adyghe. In Lihmelinyan it's a dialectal variant of /f/ and it's tran...

Yeah, my first kinda big project(s) was an English relex with English phonemes and Romance phonotactics. Grammar was all the same as English lol. How do non conlanger peers react to conlanging? I have one friend who constantly asks if I can speak whatever conlang I am on. I'll be honest that most o...

I don't know anyone at school who's into it either, only online. I first got interested when I started studying Latin. I became fascinated with the language, all those declensions and conjugations made me want to create something of my own like that. My earliest conlang experiments were rudimentary ...

Nice to meet you Carson! (Your username is pretty cool ) We are of similar age, and I'm glad to see more high-schoolers into conlanging. It's a very underrated hobby, I think

Lih. táspā /'tas.paː/ - flour

Next:

Lih. nétēr /'nɛ.teːr/ - plant, vine

I feel as if I understand PIE morphology more every time I read about it. I understand the verbal system better now than I did last week, and I understood it better last week than I did when I last worked on my conlang. I'm having to amend my conlang the more I understand PIE's complexity.

I've never had the famous "teeth falling out" dream that a lot of people experience, but last night I had a dream where sand and small pebbles kept appearing in my mouth [O.O] And I kept spitting them out, but they kept forming. That was weird...and gross. Not sure what corner of my subconscious tha...

I'll admit that I find these terms confusing. I thought that Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan were interchangeable (the words "Iranian" and "Aryan" are cognates after all), but it seems that "Indo-Aryan" is actually a synonym for "Indic", which is a subbranch of Indo-Iranian, which is a branch of Indo-Eu...

Do you ever listen to songs that perhaps contain nonsensical lyrics, yet it's not their meaning that matters, but the sound of the words? I'm thinking of this excellent song I can't stop listening to, "Toes" by Glass Animals . I'm fairly certain that much of the lyrics are just gibberish, especially...

^ http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

4 people dead, including the gunman. The three hostages were apparently employees at the Veterans home. The gunman was a veteran with PTSD. Just a very tragic situation all around

Active shooter/hostage situation a few miles from where I live:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/09/ ... f-gunfire/

No reports of any casualties, but it's scary. I guess it was only a matter of time before something like this happened here.

Oh, the Mantians are firecely nationalistic and ethnocentric. Mántes úreyes inàr (Mantians uber alles) and all that jazz. Lihmelinyan is both the conservative variety of Mantian spoken in the capital, used for religious ceremonies, and regarded by the elite as the purest highest form of the language...

I read about this in NatGeo. I think it's pretty interesting, even if it is only a small language closely related to other known ones. I find the Austroasiatic languages fascinating--their large distribution throughout Southeast Asia, the fact that they're spoken by the "Negrito" and other native pe...

Thanks you guys! It's true, it's maybe a bit much; I did sort of feel like I had to cram it in this semester to take everything I wanted to take, but I think I can manage as long as I also take some time to relax. Looking forward to being done with high school, that's for sure

So I feel like I'm going to burn out. [:|] Among the classes I'm taking this year, there's AP Literature, AP Calculus BC, AP Latin, AP Government & Politics, Philosophy, and then of course outside of school I'm studying Japanese. We also have an independent study project to present at the end of the...