What have you accomplished today?

[doctor shark]

@doctor shark: Now tickets, too! What's next, postage stamps? ;-)
I like it.

Those are currently being worked on, in fact: after my trip to Portugal, I think I have some new references. :P And thanks! I picked the train ticket because it's a bit text-heavy, so great practice... and inspired by having a paper ticket for the first time in a while during my trip to Portugal, given that the Netherlands generally uses a stored-value card for train travel.

[Travis B.]

Also, another new-ish rework of things with some added language practice:

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Nice!

[Jonlang]

I've probably achieved more in the last two weeks than I have in the last decade.... well, regarding my conlang project anyway. Maybe, just maybe, by the end of the year I'll actually have something conlangy to share.

[Vardelm]

I managed to snag a table on the patio of the local brewery. Currently 82, a few clouds, & slight breeze. PERFECT!


Wait, does that count for this thread? I haven't done conlang stuff in several months.

[doctor shark]

@doctor shark: Now tickets, too! What's next, postage stamps? ;-)
I like it.

On the topic of postage stamps...

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These are created from some old 19th century ornithological plates by Jonathan Gould, just with some reworking and coming up with bird names in Telèmor. The "1" and "2" stamps are non-denominational stamps that represent a standard-class letter of up to 25 g and 100 g, respectively, within Telèmor, with current values of TEF 0.75 and TEF 1.20, respectively. The TEF 1.30 stamp is the standard for 25 g surface mail to Ilia, while TEF 1.95 covers up to 100 g to Ilia by air and 25 g to other international destinations.

[hwhatting]

Beautiful!
These look like stamps that were issued not only for postal use but also with one eye towards the collectors' market - there's a sizeable part of the stamp collectors' market that likes beautiful stamps with the depiction of animals.

[Jonlang]

On the topic of postage stamps...

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These are created from some old 19th century ornithological plates by Jonathan Gould, just with some reworking and coming up with bird names in Telèmor. The "1" and "2" stamps are non-denominational stamps that represent a standard-class letter of up to 25 g and 100 g, respectively, within Telèmor, with current values of TEF 0.75 and TEF 1.20, respectively. The TEF 1.30 stamp is the standard for 25 g surface mail to Ilia, while TEF 1.95 covers up to 100 g to Ilia by air and 25 g to other international destinations.

They're gorgeous!

[Travis B.]

@doctor shark: Now tickets, too! What's next, postage stamps?
I like it.

On the topic of postage stamps...

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These are created from some old 19th century ornithological plates by Jonathan Gould, just with some reworking and coming up with bird names in Telèmor. The "1" and "2" stamps are non-denominational stamps that represent a standard-class letter of up to 25 g and 100 g, respectively, within Telèmor, with current values of TEF 0.75 and TEF 1.20, respectively. The TEF 1.30 stamp is the standard for 25 g surface mail to Ilia, while TEF 1.95 covers up to 100 g to Ilia by air and 25 g to other international destinations.

Nice!

[doctor shark]

Thanks, all!

Beautiful!
These look like stamps that were issued not only for postal use but also with one eye towards the collectors' market - there's a sizeable part of the stamp collectors' market that likes beautiful stamps with the depiction of animals.

Indeed, they're both functional and good for collectors: I'm not a stamp collector myself, but I do appreciate them. I actually started with birds because (a) I like birds and (b) they're often neutral enough to generally not get people too worked up about "why is this on here", though maybe next could be some fish... some plants... some scenery... you know, plenty of things to empty collector's wallets.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

They're nice.

The fictitious society I'm working on now often has reproduction runs of things like this for collectors, even though money and postage stamps are functionally obsolete in it.

[hwhatting]

you know, plenty of things to empty collector's wallets.

There are plenty of less developed countries who basically only produce stamps for the collectors market as a nice little earner for their budgets*1); those issues and their collectors are looked down upon by "serious" stamp collectors, for whom it is important that the collected stamps are meant predominantly for real postal use.
*1) Such stamps often feature not only birds and other wildlife, but stuff that has nothing to do with the countries in question but may appeal to collectors, like Disney characters or famous rock stars or soccer players. I guess Telemor would never sink so low

[Arzena]

Wrote the English text "translation" of a native text - a diary entry of a sea-merchant captain's diary - in Neire Wippwo

[foxcatdog]

Having my at composing epic poetry. It's coming along nicely.

[Travis B.]

This is not conlanging/conworlding thing, but yesterday I got my FAT32 implementation for SDHC/SDXC cards finally working on the Raspberry Pi Pico.

[Ahzoh]

Came up with a deverbal pattern C₁aC₂C₃-iss-im that denotes an action.

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Absolute    | Construct | With Possessive Suffix -na ("my") | Base Meaning
parḫissim   / parḫis    / parḫissena                        : oration, speech
mağdissim   / mağdis    / mağdissena                        : governance
aldissim    / aldis     / aldissena                         : protection
dūlissim    / dūlis     / dūlissena                         : revelation
tīlissim    / tīlis     / tīlissena                         : destruction
sābissim    / sābis     / sābissena                         : murder, killing
lēbissim    / lēbis     / lēbissena                         : possession, ownership
rāsissim    / rāsis     / rāsissena                         : goodness, benevolence
bētissim    / bētis     / bētissena                         : rebelliousness
tarbadissim / tarbadis  / tarbadissena                      : employment, stationing
talbissim   / talbis    / talbissena                        : gift, offering

Ezu-Nardin kūssa napramti bētissēkun tā. Mā Nardis talbissīs natālabti.
[ɛ.zuˈnɑr.din ˈkuːs.sɑ nɑpˈrɑm.ti bɛː.tisˈsɛː.kun ˈtɑː || ˈmɑː ˈnɑr.dis tɑɮ.bisˈsiːs nɑ.tɑːˈɮɑb.ti]
"Ezunardin shall punish them for their rebelliousness. Then he shall give offerings to Narad."

The language makes a distinction between non-future and future tense, but the future tense often has strong modal force, often implying command or intention.

[doctor shark]

Today's accomplishment.

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[Emily]

Today's accomplishment.

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wow, that's really good! what are the two languages? the 2nd is obviously romance of some sort, but i can't make head or tail of the iljómócĩmoqõtdómjõlmótíctul one

[doctor shark]

wow, that's really good! what are the two languages? the 2nd is obviously romance of some sort, but i can't make head or tail of the iljómócĩmoqõtdómjõlmótíctul one

Thanks! The former is Ilian, an agglutinating artlang and the official language of the country that issued this document; the second is Telemor, a Romance-related artlang spoken in the neighboring country. Both Ilian and Telemor are my oldest still-extant conlangs (Ilian is 10+ years old; same for Telemor) and they're the ones I normally use for making things and stuff.

[Emily]

do you have a writeup of ilian somewhere?

[Ahzoh]

I made a third noun class, inanimate (IN). So I have a ternary system of feminine (animate), masculine (animate), and inanimate.

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         | F.SG  | F.PL
ABSS.NOM : -u-m  / -ū-m
ABSS.ACC : -u-s  / -ū-s
ABSS.GEN : -u-n  / -ū-n
ABSS.EQU : -u-li / -ū-li
CONS.NOM : -a    / -ā
CONS.ACC : -a    / -ā
CONS.GEN : -u    / -ū
CONS.EQU : -a-li / -ā-li

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         | M.SG  | M.PL
ABSS.NOM : -i-m  / -ī-m
ABSS.ACC : -i-s  / -ī-s
ABSS.GEN : -i-n  / -ī-n
ABSS.EQU : -i-li / -ī-li
CONS.NOM : -e    / -ē
CONS.ACC : -e    / -ē
CONS.GEN : -i    / -ī
CONS.EQU : -e-li / -ē-li

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         | IN.SG | IN.PL
ABSS.NOM : -a-s  / -ā-s
ABSS.ACC : -a-s  / -ā-s
ABSS.GEN : -a-ḫ  / -ā-ḫ
ABSS.EQU : -a-li / -ā-li
CONS.NOM : -a    / -ā
CONS.ACC : -a    / -ā
CONS.GEN : -a    / -ā
CONS.EQU : -a-li / -ā-li

Originally there was only animate versus inanimate, but the animate gender split into masculine and feminine.

Feminine:

• female humans, spirits, and deities
• domesticated/safe animals
• semingly animate things like rivers, oceans, and fire
• names of countries and groups of people

Masculine:

• male humans, spirits, and deities
• wild/dangerous animals
• tools and weapons

Inanimate:

• still-moving things like trees, mountains, and buildings
• abstract concepts
• etc.