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Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:47 am Next: eye sand/crust

Ssaiqhamic: qulwats’al “eye sand” (literally eye+material locative+sand)

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Wow, great job. I like the astronomy parts in particular because I've been studying that sort of thing recently. Then, I also appreciate the anthropology parts because I've read a ton of anthropology in my lifetime. Oh, and I also liked how one year name that I saw sounded Classical Mesoamerican an...

Yalensky wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:55 pm next: pinecone

Proto-Sealander: *miq "pinecone, coniferous seed package" (*conifers on Ajjamah create cones as specialized branches along the trunks, and have twelve sexes adapted to six different climatic conditions)

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The Finders (they call themselves many things, but those of their own they deem Nusajúrã , "those who understand speech") are the only people in the world who can die from exposure to starlight. The Nusajúrã are distant cousins of the Sorcerers of Salvi ; their dozen or so languages are mo...

My Old Albic featural alphabet stands in a similar relation to Phoenician as Korean to 'Phags-pa: the letters for /p t k s/ are derived from their Phoenician counterparts, and the circular base of the vowel letters from Phoenician ayin. Curious...one of my abjads looks surprisingly similar. (Grin) ...

https://i.imgur.com/X2cW1hC.jpg The First Inversion Diminished Ascending --or, as they are unflatteringly known on the Homeworld, the Miser Crabs --have been around as a civilized people for two million years, thirteen million if you go by their timescale. They have spread to sixty star systems acr...

I assume there's some spellchecker error there? If not, congrats on the commanding job. :) You don't give details about the client, pay, or anything else, but as a general rule, if someone's given you $x for a job, that's a good indication of what they're willing to pay for more work. If the script...

Guys, quick question. So I managed to get myself a position doing some conlanging work with someone, and it’s a nice job. But I was thinking about expanding it a bit beyond the initial contract, make a script or something. What do you lot think would be a fair price to offer? I don’t know if this is...

I'm exploring an alternate history where European presence in the Americas remains restricted to Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New England in the 16th and 17th centuries (of course it's a continuation of the Roman alternate history!) Needless to say, that scenario raises a lot of questions ...

Hey up, all! Just a quick request for advice. I've been developing an alien race with, shall we say, nonhuman vocalization methods, and I'm wondering whether anyone's come up with a system to best represent sounds produced by non-human entities in language format. Any thoughts?

Yala' siringa vara gēsti!
Year be.born-ABS.PERF.PART-NEUT.SING 1pinc-ALL be.good-INT-3sABS
Happy New Year, everyone!

next word: thanksgiving Qumor: nunk’eli, nunk’el- “thanksgiving day, harvest celebration” (from Proto-Qumor * k’añil ) Icemannic Dialect 17: tokaitilajukë “thanksgiving day, day of remembering” (from Proto-Icemannic * tuakaitilaju-kia “it-makes-us-cyclically-remember day”) Next: turkey, large bird ...

Sajiwan bohn som taym ina 2014 1 , fi kantafit Jamekn, an so swel af fay ye. Alũbetah mek wen Novemba/Disemba 2009 2 , an so af ten ye. Kotane af nof ye pas dis, bohn ina dem 80 3 , an wohk pon mos ina dem 90 4 . Las taym mi wohk pon im a soma 2009. 1 tu-tosn ten foh 2 tu-tosn nayn 3 et-ten 4 nayn-...

Miḍinkinār Salyvanōstim ḍu sama-yalēt ju trarrurnār dhusōm, ḍi haran diyuki Ēśralusavī.
I made Salvian four years ago to help a friend, although it was called Echraluzo then.

Very interesting, and I'm looking forward to reading more about it. Thank you kindly! One thing I don't quite get is why Britain is so important at this stage in your timeline? My knowledge of that period is really hazy, but weren't the British Isles a backwater at this point in history? Technicall...

At the suggestion of mèþru, perhaps it'd be reasonable to explore all of the potential changes across the world. The current year in the Blessed Cold universe is 1500 CE, and the Point of Divergence is in 400 CE. Looking at the world over the course of a hundred years at a time, this gives me eleven...

The point of divergence is in the year 400 CE If it is that early then the world would probably be much more different than you depicted. I'd go all the way back and develop it step by step from 400 CE. Here's the Proto-Iroquoian paper: http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/handle/1993/4175/juli...

One alternate history I saw a couple years ago was predicated on Carthage winning the Punic Wars, and engaging in small-scale colonization of northeastern Brazil and the US. I think the real variable here is time--how many centuries do the Americas have to prepare?--plus a colonizing/contacting pow...

Measles, it's worth noting, doesn't seem to have really jumped to humans (to the point of becoming endemic) until about 1100-1200 AD. Of course, that can be move back a few centuries. In this case it’s right on time; by that point in TTL the New Worlders had cattle, all the better to get cowpox and...

I don't mean to poke holes, particularly as I don't think you're aiming for strict realism here. But I don't think smallpox works that way. Smallpox is actually quite difficult to spread, and very difficult to have become endemic. It spreads slowly and inefficiently. First, smallpox cannot be sprea...