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Translation Challenge: "The Chant of Nudimmud", a Tower of Babel variant story from Sumer. (I cant find the source from which I sourced the version I used, but an alternative translation is here [ LINK ] (lines 134-155)for localizing the Terrestrial placenames into your conlang) Ardinian O...

Obviously there's no international standard for representing the Köppen type with colours, but I find it hard to think of A-type climates as blue. (What do synaesthetes think? This could be very interesting.) Not a synaesthete but in contrast to what Alice said, blue on Koppen maps (especially the ...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 7:06 pm Íröd:

Love that supercontinent

I always wanted to do something like this but Inkscape makes it difficult. I also never really know how big or small a koppen region should be. I did my maps in GIMP; I'm teaching myself Inkscape atm which presents design challenges not present in GIMP though you do get lovely pixel-free maps out o...

I like seeing Koppen maps (or any climate classification system) of people's conworlds. Here's a thread to share such maps. And to start here's the Koppen maps for my world, Enumene (WIP, I havent distinguished the various continental zones from one another and the desert regions need a rework imo) ...

Sometimes you'll hear that two pieces fit together 'comme papa dans maman', ie as daddy into mommy, ie perfectly.

Suddenly I understand Guattari and Deleuze's asides about "daddy-mommy-me" a lot more...

I could have asked about this in the Linguistic Miscellany Thread, but first, there's a fairly intense and long-winded discussion going on there right now, and second, it's a request for help with a small detail of one of my conworlding projects, s I'll put it here. I want to make a flag in my futu...

Nothing to add. Glad he's gone. Ozë fsëgda altun

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Meta: in trying to translate Sic semper tyrannis to Cadhinor, I noticed that the lexicon has no separate entry for 'tyrant'. What would the idiomatic construction be for that word when Ilcorea and Genremos discuss political philosophy?

Ardinian serves as the Greco-Latin proxy for my conworlding project Ecaria . You are correct in identifying Finnish as inspiration for several of the words in the list (I realized one day that I needed words for 'good', 'bad', etc and I happened upon those Finnish words browsing through the translat...

Some new words in Ardinian: bibis (all sorts of) ceat (gather, collect) dhelge (prayer) fehis (head) fevis (principal, head, chief, core, cardinal) huvisakha (grammar) hiovas (good, well) huonos (bad, poor, wicked) pahas (bad, evil, ill; ill-suited, difficult; serious, urgent) paros (best, good; fit...

There's a New Athens /nuː ˈeɪθənz/ in Southern Illinois. Also the Augustine in St. Augustine, FL is pronounced by Floridians as /ˈɔːɡəˌstiːn/ but if you pronounce the saint's name that way to certain learnèd men they may have a chuckle at you. There are some place names in America that are pronounc...

There are some place names in America that are pronounced differently in the place that they refer to, or alternatively: There are some place names in America that are habitually pronounced incorrectly outside of the place that they refer to. Can you think of any other examples? (Other languages ar...

I use it in casual speech "Yeah, I went to his bday party", but if I'm emphasizing the word I will say the full phrase.

I've read that, too, and it's definitely more sound than my speculation. Let's hop in the time machine to find out

And the w-initial roots do have strange behaviour in the paradigms of Arabic with some of them eliding the w in the nonpast stems (e.g. wajad-a "find" > ya-jid-u) while rarely others keep them (e.g. wajil-a "to be scared" > ya-wjal-u). To that end, the imperative form of Arabic ...

For Modern Standard Arabic قال qāla 'to say' قال إن اسمه اسماعيل qāla inna ismahu Ismaʕīl - 'He said his name was Ismail' 'to tell' قلت لك إن البلد خطيرا جدا qultu laka inna'l-balada xatˤīran jiddan - 'I told you that the country is very dangerous' تكلم takallama 'to speak (a language), to talk (wit...

Worked on elevation maps for my conworld, Enumene.

Cranked the numbers and I've been a member of ZBB Extended Universe for 18 years now makes me very happy to reflect on 13 y/o me joining at the time, finding this strange wonderful community, and how I've grown personally and conlangartisticly since then

Verdurian was my first published conlang and there's much I don't like about it. It was thoroughly revised once but it's too late to do it again. (Also there is an in-universe, or in-multiverse, reason for the similarities.) I’ve been doing the nuts and bolts work of learning Verdurian recently ‒ l...

Growth is also productivity, and we need that too, even if we want a socialist rather than a capitalist world. Without continuing to develop renewable energy, "degrowth" either means continuing with fossil fuels and endangering the ecosphere, or letting billions of people die. And unless ...