I don't know. But there is an alcoholic drink called "tiger wine" made in China at a place called Badaling. It is not made of urine or even of blood, but apparently from the bones:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_bone_wine
I don't know. But there is an alcoholic drink called "tiger wine" made in China at a place called Badaling. It is not made of urine or even of blood, but apparently from the bones:
I think what Sal is missing is that it's a stereotype, yes they practice human sacrifice of POWs, but they're not cannibals or urine drinkers. Maybe the stereotype should ommit the diabetic part, and say they dissolve the victim's blood in grape juice and ferment it.Pabappa wrote: ↑27 Dec 2018 21:52I don't know. But there is an alcoholic drink called "tiger wine" made in China at a place called Badaling. It is not made of urine or even of blood, but apparently from the bones:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_bone_wine
Not sure how it would be controversialLinguoFranco wrote: ↑02 Jan 2019 03:15I’m thinking about creating a diesel-punk world, but basing the society on WW2 Japan instead of!Europe.
Would this be too controversial or touchy? I don’t plan to protest any particular country as “good” or “evil,”
I didn't see that part of the original post - that it was based on WW2. I saw that it was based on Japan, but not the date - ergo my confusion.
That would make sense. Indeed, this may be the reason why the Old Albic script is running bottom to top! After all, the Elves do perceive time as going "upwards" in the sense that they believe in progress and ascension. Thank you!holbuzvala wrote: ↑16 Jan 2019 16:02Do you think a culture that has its perception of time rising upwards would employ an upwards-read script?
That's likely down to pressure from the USSR, and similar things happened for languages in the Caucasus, IIRC, where traditional Arabic-derived scripts were dropped in favour of Cyrillic for, effectively, political reasons (look at the way Turkish dropped the traditional Arabic-derived script in favour of a Latin-based orthography in the early 20th Century). The script has survived longer in Inner Mongolia where use of the traditional script was still preferable to some Chinese-derived script.Pabappa wrote: ↑16 Jan 2019 17:59I 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 .... but vertical scripts in general seem to be rare, and left-to-right is mechanically better than right-to-left when the medium is ink (since most people are right handed), but there are major right-to-left scripts still in use whereas the vertical sscript of Mongolian seems to have essentially disappeared.
I have an idea, but it might be bullshit, in part because it’s original with me as far as I know.holbuzvala wrote: ↑17 Jan 2019 17:56Anyhow, I'd forgotten about the basic principle of considering the writing medium. My conculture began their foray into literacy with carving notches into wood, bark, and trees, so I think the script would be esthetically and diachronically pleasing if it were vertical top-to-bottom (like traditional chinese). Trees have more height than width, so that makes sense to me, and carving upwards would be really uncomfortable. Then, after acquiring ink or printing technology, they keep the writing in its top-to-bottom direction for traditionalism's sake. Thoughts?
Also, not sure if it should go in columns right-to-left or left-to-right. Any suggestions, considering the wood-carvy nature of its inception, as to how this might affect direction?
I think that's brilliant! I had envisaged my conculture reasonably far north (on Earth), so writing on the southern side of trees makes hella sense. And so, following the path of the sun (or rather the light, which is its inverse) would yeild a right-to-left system, which is brilliant as that's what I envisaged originally - but now I can justify it! Reminds me of creating a new kind of conlang word, and then inventing a bunch of retrojective diachronic rules to justify its existence. Thanks for you help :)Spoiler:
Adpihi & Reptigan do perceive the journey through life as a climb or ascent; and so, like palaeontologists and archaeologists, think the past is below and the future is above.holbuzvala wrote: ↑16 Jan 2019 16:02Do you think a culture that has its perception of time rising upwards would employ an upwards-read script?
Don't forget that high altitudes in the tropics are still pretty warm. The mountain dwelling people on the island of Papua often wear nothing but a Koteka.LinguoFranco wrote: ↑31 Jan 2019 05:39What kind of clothing would people wear in the mountains? I expect maybe something thick for higher altitudes, but what about lower altitudes or at the base of the range or in valleys?
Hard to say without a map for two reasons: 1) the positions of all continents impact the global climate (e.g., the fact that there are few landmasses in the southern part of the southern hemisphere on our Earth makes the westerly winds much stronger and impactful than their northern hemisphere counterparts); 2) not knowing the exact position and extent of the mountains you mention is a problem.Zekoslav wrote: ↑02 Feb 2019 19:17So, while browsing The Other Board, I've stumbled upon an interesting observation concerning climate: that Geoff's climate cookbook (the usual beginner's resource) is not quite accurate when things deviate too much from Earth, especially when there are east-to-west coastlines in the wrong place.
I'm quite interested in where I might find information about this: looking at a world map, east-to-west coastlines seem to be absent in the temperate zones, and are quite rare at the equator.
My main con-continent () is a sort of bulked-up North America: first there's an east-leaning coastline from the equator to the northern tropic (roughly 45 degrees), then there's a roughly square shaped piece of land situated between the northern tropic and the northern polar circle which can only receive moisture from the south and the east (to the west, there are mountains which separate if from an equally thick if not thicker piece of land). Unlike North America, it's east coast is completely vertical and it's Florida-equivalent is large and elevated, crossing the northern tropic slightly.
Now, I guess the eastern coast would have a humid subtropical climate, but what about the large east-to-west-coastlined bay? Would it be a continuation of the humid subtropical climate or would it be more arid?