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I would have written "AU's".

When I saw "aus", I actually wondered if it was a borrowing from the German word, and referred to a fish "out" of water setting.

Dictionaries I used to compile the Landau Core Vocabulary: Larousse Pocket German Dictionary Barron's German-English Dictionary Larousse Concise French-English English-French Dictionary Webster's New World Concise Spanish Dictionary Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Portuguese Collins Portuguese Dicti...

This is funny since, in fanfiction, while not as common as high school aus or coffee shop aus, there are at least some university aus out there. How many are based on fantasy stories and how many actually have fantasy elements I wouldn't be able to tell you. But there's definitely at least some mar...

Obviously there are no settings in which elves are humans since, by definition, they would then not be elves. There are countless stories, however, in which myths of elves (fairies, sprites, goblins, etc) are said to have been inspired by lost human cultures. In particular, in the British context, ...

But where, I ask you!, are the Anunnaki!??! Sorry, Nibiru is not within the Lehola Galaxy. And how do you explain all these pyramids that keep popping up everywhere!? Pyramids are a favorite of Greys. From my page on Kankonian history: It is believed now that the pyramids in Hegheos were most likel...

Quick example: Most members here present low fantasy conworlds with bronze age analogues or get really technical with scifi, except 1 conlanger who does urban fantasy (you go girl! [:D]). I guess I am one of the few who use "typical mixed fantasy" for the conworld. The Lehola Galaxy is based on new...

Coo, interestante that! [<3] [<3] [<3] Thanks! How well does it work? Any intriguing side effects? First, something I forgot to mention. The cultural knowledge, vocabulary and grammar for each culture's speeder program is updated every few years to keep up with changes in history, changes in laws, ...

Also, what would it mean for other areas of interaction if women (or the equivalent) traveled more than men? Or if adults and young were seen as the same socially? How young is young? In the Lehola Galaxy, they have developed a technology called lifespeeding for most sapient species. After a baby i...

Some don'ts for a realistic conworld: - no peoples that are physically attractive on average - while there are objective standards for beauty, there are also subjective standards for beauty, and as a result, beauty is subjective; also, anything like this only reflects the mentality of lookism of th...

Cool picture, Elemtilas. Is that the Dorling-Kindersley picture dictionary, by any chance?

And I see yamaimo is a false cognate for yam!

So... what all are the possible low vowel outcomes in the English dialects? TRAP BATH MAD FATHER LOT CLOTH THOUGHT START GenAm æ æ æ ɑ ɑ ɔ ɔ ar PA/NJ æ æ eə ɑ ɑ ɔ ɔ ar Boston æ æ æ ɑ ɔ? ɔ? ɔ ɑ WestAm æ æ æ ɑ ɑ ɑ ɑ ar RP æ ɑ æ ɑ ɒ ɒ ɔ ɑ (+NORTH/FORCE = THOUGHT) Kheme æ a æ ɑ ɑ? ɔ? ɔ ar? Newfndl æ æ ...

BEFORE: The connective "id" is used to mean that an action is "done to" something. It is used after a gerund to connect it to its object: Adhashar id goshaniya en hethet stoern. clean done_to toilet PST task difficult Cleaning the toilet was a difficult task. Ovai id zikheth id ventas dyu meyez haz...

Today I am headed to Moraga, CA for the Campolindo High School Class of '98 20-year reunion. I will join a melange of preppies, skaters, trendies, jocks, goths, hip-hoppers, slackers, emo kids, hippies, rednecks, and more from Campo at the Moraga Country Club. I hope to see friends whom I haven't se...

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30 Apr 2018 12:56

not really although I want...

I might translate Edmund Landau's Differential and Integral Calculus into my conlangs(e.g. Lonmai Luna)...

I like this idea.

Guess why.

Oh cool, I've never seen a Germanic language written with the Cyrillic alphabet before!

The night between November 23 and November 24, 2018, I had a dream wherein I was at either a bookstore or a library. I found a thick book whose spine said it was a Japanese dictionary. It looked like an old book, but I was hoping it would be pretty up-to-date so I opened it. Turned out it was a full...

Today I added the following entries to the Landau Core Vocabulary under Verbs of Physical Aggression: to blind (temporarily) to blind (permanently) Adding those made me think of the Oasis song "Wonderwall", which brought to mind the line "The fire in your heart is out". I then added these: to put ou...

I have [æ] for "ant", [a] for "aunt", [æ] for "trap", [a] for "bath", [ɑ] for "thought", and [ɑ] for "palm". Make of that what you will. Does "palm" have /l/? Yes. I have a /l/ in "palm", "calm" and "qualm", but not in "walk", "talk", "chalk", "stalk", "folk", "yolk", "half" nor "calf". Which vowel...

Is it "xul", the word for fish? Reminds me of words like "hal" and "kal". Correct! It's based mainly off of Mansi forms like /xuːl/. Awesome! I remember reading a list of words for fish several years back, and I recalled how the Uralic languages had forms like the Hungarian hal , the Finnish kala ,...

Do you know how many species of river horse they have on Gea? Sorry, I don't know that! Yeola / Gea is a pretty big, largely unexplored place, after all! I see. Mark Rosenfelder has said he still has yet to name all the cannibal tribes in that jungle on Almea. Depends on one's perspective, of cours...