Zompist Bboard Again

Good...grief. And nobody was interested enough in this to comment?

EDIT: I stand corrected. Alynnidalar was interested enough to comment.

Frislander wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:54 am Also sidenote but I would love to see more on this "Icemannic", looks very interesting.

(Grin) Thank you! I may see about starting another passage for it, then...

next: ballet; synchronized dance Salvian: akkumuh, akkuma- “synchronized dance, Natyam (the Salvians have a number of different ways to perform magic, and one of them is re-enactment of particular scenes with symbolism attached to them in the hopes of generating the correct kind of emotional respon...

masako wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 3:06 pm next: wharf; port; pier

Icemannic Dialect 17:
Aihusuvungar “place that protects from the sea; harbour, haven”
Tekvunkuuma “pole for canoes; pier”

Next: lighthouse

karaluuebru wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:44 pm next word:
canoe, small one person watercraft

Icemannic Dialect 17:
Kitek “little canoe, one-person watercraft, coracle” (plural kitekat)

Next:
Superhero

... But it’s normally better to have some other factor coming into play for the feminine form to become a diminutive, ... Akangka was saying the reverse, diminutive > feminine. I'm assuming what is meant is that the language started with no masculine-feminine distinction grammatically, but did have...

Sorry for misogyny, but is it possible to derive diminutive into feminime gender? Proto Garaudawa initially only has 2 genders, and it is reflected in Rkouic and converted into Proximate-Absolutive in Asent'oan, but split into four genders in the rest of language, taking original diminutive. (No lo...

Halian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:30 pm The safir are a species of four-armed, blue-blooded and -skinned, matriarchal, psionic elvenoids from my main, soft sf, conworld, the Safir Alliance.

...fun!

That reminds me of the third instar of the life cycle of the Ariekei in Embassytown by China Miéville. After a certain age they die and part of their bodies used to become a sort of mobile food source that instintively (by a vestigial remnant of the brain) follows Ariekei in the second instar. In t...

The Ajjaman year is only about 2/3rds that of Earth, so while most “humans” live to about the same age as they would on Earth the actual time measurement is greater. A standard human, for example, finishes up with puberty by the age of 30, and can expect to live a further 50 local years in a pre-ind...

So...what did people eat during the early days of colonization? Was there livestock, or protein packs, or what? And did this change at all once the terraforming started?

Um...I hate to bring this up, but how closely connected are Earth and kårroť if there are humans on both worlds?

Um...Zaarin? You forgot your next question.

Pardon the title of this post. It's a very bad reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey . Technology is very much varied across cultures, times, and locations. But the fundamental problems that one needs to solve--food, space, mates, communication, cleanliness, etc.--remain roughly the same throughout. Th...

Okay, this isn't strictly related, but mind if I use your idea to create a new thread to inspire people to make up new technology? Also, realistically speaking the group of people reforming your calendrical system may not need to do very much--just keep an eye on how much time passes between one sol...

Next: a poisonous animal The turtopar or Golden Dart Salamander ( toxicus interbidus ) is a nudanguinate (roughly equivalent to Terran amphibians) native to the jungles of Salvi (and Pelia in general). It is small, only about ten centimetres long from head to stumpy tail, and a bright golden colour...

First up: To keep up with the Joneses An excellent idea! Salvian: Svigdaitan okatvolūs The phrase is a little difficult to parse. Literally, it would mean “to try and make your ladles improve compared to one another,” but the meaning behind it is a touch trickier. The Classical Salvians had a numbe...

In the same vein as Lexicon Building, Lexicon Scuplting, and Menagerie Sculpting, I give you: Proverb Building! The rules are, hopefully, rather simple: Take a proverb provided by the previous poster. Write it out in your own language (with a translation of course, and a transliteration or phonetic ...

Another small query: if neurimplants rely on physical gestures to make the words...well, what's happened to various sign languages over the years? Likely in the 50th Century someone could very easily get new ears made, but how about in the intervening years where various forms of digital communicati...

Both I guess? Not sure what you mean by theoretically vs practically. What I mean is, do your people know about germ theory, or do they still conform to pre-scientific methods? On the practical side, have they developed all the medical techniques and technology up to the point that electricity make...