The CBB

Were/wifemoot post - I like the set up here. What I would like to know, however, is how people, organizations, and corporations adapt to this, or if not, what prevents them. After all, to quote my grandmother, “Rich or poor, it’s good to have money.” Keyword rich. I'm sure people have found out how...

rPrlg /chuff, long high strong grunt, chuff, short low weak grunt, short low weak growl/ Borrowed from an Outlander* word meaning "conscript", referring to adolescents undertaking mandatory customer service Noun A low-skilled worker, a wage slave, a burger fool [hr] sCqgg /yip, long low st...

Me: *accidentally severs optical fiber cable run to my house while doing yard work* Also me: *Can't wait for the repair tech. Must sate internet addiction. Decides to connect Mikrotik router board to the WAN port of my firewall and tethers the router board, and with it my entire home LAN, to my phon...

Assuming that a whole litter can disappear in the flick of a whisker "The flick of a whisker" is now an official idiom in Commonthroat: brHG-p b rb-g flick-3D of whisker-3I I tried making it a palindrome, but the inflections got in the way. It's probably closer to "twitch of a whiske...

You can't drop a noun that is the object of a preposition, at least in a main clause. If the object of the preposition is in the first person, the speaker must identify themself in some way. The noun chosen to identify the speaker can relate to the speaker's role in the overall narrative, the relati...

rCFqKqmg /chuff, long rising strong whine, huff, long high strong growl, huff, short low strong grunt, short low weak growl/ from rCFq (to eat) + Kqg (egg) + -m (customary/agentive suffix) Noun (extremely vulgar) one who is in the habit of eating yinrih eggs. This is the Commonthroat equivalent to t...

sKGqsPlrg /yip, long falling weakening growl, huff, yip, late falling weakening grunt, chuff, short low weak growl/ from sKGqg (stone) + sPlr (to float) "floatstone" Noun A legendary substance said to be able to negate the effects of gravity (cf Cavorite). Floatstone plays a similar role i...

There seem to be about 10 to 15 odor words in languages that use them, which I find interesting as that's about how many base color terms languages have. Huhhh? Didn't Berlin and Kay find a maximum eleven basic color categories (white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, g...

I’m enjoying your work with colour words and conworlding. I'm trying to find an overview of the languages that are said to have odor colors, but it's all journal articles locked behind paywalls. It's maddening because I'm really interested in how it all works. From the freely accessible abstracts a...

I nod, but Crystal holds up a paw. "Oops, almost forgot," she says, motioning down at my sneakers with her muzzle. "Those gotta go." I follow her gaze to a shelf full of shoes just inside the entrance door. "You can keep the socks on," she adds. I hesitate momentarily. ...

The Rite of Alightment is a ritual performed upon landing a womb ship. Ideally it's done in the presence of one or more alien sophonts, and is meant to communicate what sort of creatures the yinrih are, why they're here, and to serve as a gesture of good will and trust to their new hosts. The rite b...

qBCrCb /huff, long low strengthening whine, chuff, late low weakening whine/ from qBCrg (flesh, body) + -Cb (cause to become) literally "cause to become flesh" Verb (reproduction) to conceive. (by extension) to bring into being. How to make a yinrih: 1. Get an equal number of sexually matu...

Here are a few more words I've coined recently sdC /yip, early falling strengthening whine/ Verb To yearn, long for, pine, miss. Derived terms: sdC-dB-g: prone to be wistful or nostalgic [hr] qNm /huff, late low strengthening grunt/ Verb To extract, exploit. (of people) to take advantage of. To mine...

rBC /chuff, long low strengthening whine/ Verb To expect a negative outcome, to fear, to suspect This one's a hard one to translate. "to fear" comes sort of close, as in "If his performance doesn't improve I fear he will lose his job." However <rBC> isn't so high on the arousal a...

This is a continuation of the story from the analysis swap game over on the conlangs board. People stopped engaging with that, but I wanted to keep the story going, with a change in perspective to make it a bit more readable. Enjoy! [hr] For a few seconds I waver between turning right to head home o...

If every word has one syllable with the vowel pronounced longer than the rest, incidentally, we call this "stress", rather than "length". It's normally also pronounced a little louder and can have a different pitch from the other syllables. I was unsure whether to describe this ...

Also, how will coda /n/ and /s/ be marked in the syllabary? The system is similar to my Commonthroat braille system, which in tern is inspired by Japanese braille. The six dots of a braille cell are numbered as follows: 1 . . 4 2 . . 5 3 . . 6 Dots 1, 2, and 4 indicate vowels. o o o . . . Dots 2, 3...

Braille is very aesthetic, but it's designed to be felt with the hands rather than seen with the eyes. As a visual writing system it's horrible because everything looks too similar to everything else. Indeed. The usual way to fix this issue is to have shadow dots on the print representation of the ...

I'm not good at pronouncing and distinguishing long vowels, as well as register tones. Here's a system that I think I might actually be able to pronounce. Each multisyllabic word has one "marked" syllable. That marked syllable is pronounced longer than the rest. The marked syllable can be ...