Zompist Bboard Again

This is more of a random musing and wondering if it could work. I recall reading somewhere that many palaeo-languages had noun classes not based on gender (as in many modern Indo-European languages), but on level of agency. That is, "gods" would be the first noun class, adult humans (or po...

Until very recently, I could have sworn that the "a" in "ate" was a diphthong. How did you think the diphthong was pronounced? In American English, diphthongal /eɪt/ is the standard pronunciation; in British English, it's interchangeable with monophthongal /ɛt/. British here. I ...

The Orcish language is unashamedly a conlang intended to be that spoken by the humanoid races (orcs, goblins, etc.) in a certain D&D campaign setting. There's a long backstory behind this, but I chose to create this language as an "offshoot" of Proto-Indo-European, because the English-...

I’ve made an SCA (three SCAs, actually!), but I wouldn’t dare try to make one in Excel! Why do you need an SCA in a spreadsheet? Mainly because that's where I store most of my vocabulary notes for my conlang. Ideally, I'd do my conlanging in one of SIL's products (Toolbox, FLEX, Lexique Pro, etc.),...

Possibly a dumb question, but has anyone created a SCA that works inside Excel (or some other spreadsheet)? I've got something that is bare-bones functional inside Excel, but only works with literal text strings (no wildcards or context keys or other smart stuff). I'm hoping the clever people here h...