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I am learning Esperanto throuĝ Duolingo and once Tajpi has been installed, it makes "c h" as ĉ automatically. Anyways, some minor frustrating features of the language are the use of the inherent suffix ending The vocabulary, with some fluency in Spaniŝ and knowledge of Frenĉ word roots is ...

Also the internet is an attractor for people with strongly held, complex and strange or (to the general public distasteful) beliefs

Has anyone actually made a programming language on their own and what is the product lifecycle?

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:37 am

linguistcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:48 am Solresol of cuisine: All ingredients make sounds and are limited to 7

All possible ingredients make sounds if you know how to manipulate them.

Also, certain sounds make foods better to eat

Ha - turns out there is an anti-rationalist site called sneerclub An example post mocking a rationalist-adjacent dating app @Soyweiser English 6 • I think it is just a consequence of those kinds of communities/people where your singular weird obsessions and inability to make room/time for the lives/...

Does that work as a base list? Kinda sounds like you're reinventing Middle Eastern cuisine. How about the Lojban of cuisine? Something characteristic of every culture, put together in such a way that three quarters of it looks like it's from another planet. Something like "Flying Jacob" c...

Let's see what would be left - Staples: potatoes, corn, rice and to a lesser extent cassava, plantains etc (in tropical regions) - Vegetables: most vegetables although commonly produced ones like tomatoes, onions, (chili and green) peppers, spinach, cucumber, mushrooms, carrots, cauliflowers, eggpla...

Basically, an attempt to create a cuisine that would function as an auxiliary (or replacement*, according to some) to existing national cuisines. The Esperantist movement, which was active even in the early 20th century in East Asia (Japan and Korea), Europe and America, could serve as the vehicle f...

Does anyone else find the Freemasons rather baffling as a concept? So these rich people in the 1700s got together and decided to LARP as construction workers. Except instead of actually building anything, they hold regular meetings where they invent all kinds of rituals and lore loosely evoking mas...

In general, the farther North you go, the less spicy ingredients are available, and the less important the germ-killing properties of spices become. Non-European traditional food from Northerly regions that I have tasted, like Kazakh or Mongolian, is also rather bland (or rather uses a very limite ...

One conflict I have is whether marriage (and the preceding forms of relationship) ought to be characterized by 1) sexual attraction, 2) the romantic attraction (the 'feeling' of being in love) or 3a) a mutual set of duties and reciprocal interactions that gets necessary tasks done, and 3b) prevents ...

That makes sense - to beings who are to humans as humans are to ants, indifference is the most common response.

The Powers upon whom magicians call seem to be 1) generally chaotic/alien or malign 2)uninterested in interfacing with anything beyond an individual level. As the modern era advances and technology does more things, not as much as the Powers of course, and the unpredictable master-pet relations of t...

Also, Mandarin did a lot of borrowing from Japanese which in turn borrowed from Classical chinese, so 哲学 zhe3xue2 'philosophy' and 科学 ke1xue2 'science' are not easily decomposable into commonly used morphemes

For 4) why keep plurals around at all? Latino sine flexione does away with them

Kind of, but not entirely. The meta-procedure is to make Eretald itself very familiar to Western readers, which means making it feel rather European. Then as you get farther out, things get more unusual. Still, I've always bristled at the idea that to make a conworld you take earthly nations and fi...

Somewhat off topic, but is Erelae roughly analogous in geopolitical role to Europe, Arcel to Asia, the other two to Africa/the Americas but with less of a disadvantage?

I just might know a lot of the rat and postrat people on Twitter... :oops: It's a weird space where people are mostly debate club polite but also more or less evenly split between anarchists, luxury space communists, NRx people, Effective Altruists, transhumanists, AI doomers, ... so that apart fro...

Its spelling reflects those of the Germanic languages so I'm not suprised

This kind of reminds me of the theory that the varna system emerged out of the racial categorization of Dravidian/non-Indo Aryan peoples as a lower class.