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Hey there! I'm toying with this idea for a set of conlangs. You see, they all descended from a common language spoken by a now-fallen empire; this language had a system of masculine, feminine, and neuter gender. However, only some of the descendant languages preserve this system; others have change...

I think that a vertical script (either direction) would be an obstacle to writing, so it depends on how literate this society is and what their medium of writing is. I dont know if that is because its just easier to move the hand laterally vs vertically/dorsally, or if there is some other facotr .....

I think the only other thing that might be universal is that consonants that can be codas make up a subset of all consonants, and are typically smaller in number than consonants that can be onsets. I can't remember coming across a language that had a set of codas larger than its set of onsets.

Okay, you got me interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwhTDN9h40 :!: Strong TNG feel + Galaxy Quest -style humor + a healthy dollop of The Planiverse {in that episode}= [<3] [<3] [<3] [<3] Must… See… Moar !!! :mrgreen: YES! Definitely a Galaxy Quest feel to it, but I think it walks the line...

It's slowly but surely coming together

Is anyone else watching "The Orville"? Gawd, I wish! [:S] Looks pretty darn funny!! But also good in a serious/coherent storytelling way, too. [:D] A worthy Star Trek successor ? :wat: I'd definitely say so. It reminds me a lot of ST:TNG , but with a big dollop of funny. I think they've managed to ...

Is anyone else watching "The Orville"?

Oh, wow, nice work! Is it meant to be something specific, or just a design you came up with to build for the fun of it? I'd honestly almost forgotten about Minecraft. I haven't played in years. It's just something I threw together to build just for the fun of it. I wanted something big enough that ...

Finally got my new laptop, arrived on Friday. Other than installing a browser and antivirus stuff, I haven't moved anything over from my old laptop (which is about 8000 songs, few dozen audiobooks, and then some random dreck). Instead, I've spent a total of 20 hours over the weekend playing Minecraf...

From what I can remember, it was probably an amalgam, but I'm honestly not sure. After some talking with my ex, pretty sure it was the filling that fell out. Haven't gotten it sorted out yet though [:P] Id it was an amalgam, then I'd imagine not seeing a filling in the mirror means it's fallen out!...

Well Shukudai hasn't logged on since the 26th, a couple of hours after making their most recent post, which makes me think that they're done interacting here. Shame, really. Yeah, I was enjoying us all deconstructing how ridiculous his entire enterprise was. I was actually quite enjoying it. Like, ...

Well Shukudai hasn't logged on since the 26th, a couple of hours after making their most recent post, which makes me think that they're done interacting here. Shame, really.

I remember someone (can't find who said it) saying a triconsonantal root system (or maybe it was an abjad) cannot have too many consonant phonemes. Is this really the case? I suppose it depends on what's meant by "large". WALS uses the boundart of 34 to mark out "large" consonant inventories, with ...

I've just spent the last 20 minutes trying to figure out if I've just chipped a tooth or if the one filling I have has fallen out, because I've honestly forgotten where it is [:P] The tooth that currently has a chip in it is my right second maxillary premolar, while the filling was either in that t...

Generalising: Year after year the moons of Saturn turn, indifferent to our being, yet down here we wonder and worry over whether the person across the room thinks about us the same way we feel about those world's out there. We can talk to those people. We can't talk to Saturn's moons. One we find be...

Close to the last Full Moon, coming up to New Year, and I sent this to a friend who was feeling a bit down for Reasons: "Someone out there, some time, has found you sexy, for whatever reason, and chances are someone will find you sexy again. Now, that's basing how sexy you are on something exterior,...

Right, since my laptop seems intent on just not working today, I'm going to attempt to summarise on my phone: 1) You learning the International Phonetic Alphabet and some linguistic terminology will greatly improve your ability to convey information about your auxlang in the future. Being specific a...

Urgh, trying to write a response to previous posts, but my laptop has decided to die 4 times tonight so far...

Make that 5 times

Honestly, what is the point of this thread? I feel that the whole premise is violating this rule: In addition, with the exception of posting book recommendations or links to websites on topics related to languages, linguistics, conlangs and conworlds, commercial advertisements of any kind don't bel...