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Post by Sandafluffoid on Feb 11, 2011 20:08:42 GMT -5
Prescriptive linguistics.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Feb 6, 2011 7:53:02 GMT -5
My flatmate and I have been on a cooking spree this weekend. Yesterday we cooked a massive chocolate coffee cake, and then we did spicy haggis and chinese stir-fry vegetables with rice for dinner (this is actually a way better combination than you'd think). Then I cooked her a massive Full English Breakfast this morning and she's going to do a four course Chinese meal tonight. Win? I think win.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Feb 4, 2011 10:14:17 GMT -5
My flatmate made us all baozi, because she is awesome like that. It was amazing.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Feb 3, 2011 13:07:08 GMT -5
Well, the standard text for translating conlangs is from the Bible (Genesis 11:1-9 to be precise), which is also why almost all conlangs have words related to firing bricks even when they're missing far more basic vocabulary. It's not surprising that Klingon, the Big Man About Campus of the conlang world, would go ahead and do the whole Bible.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Feb 3, 2011 7:36:33 GMT -5
过年好!
I plan to celebrate by putting soy sauce in my curry. Drinks may also happen.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 29, 2011 13:14:25 GMT -5
Ooh, I like this new series, getting to grip with the Dharans a bit sounds fun.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 22, 2011 17:10:51 GMT -5
Thanks. I thought it was pretty amazing too. Imagine if we all decided to wear the shirt one day? How'd you fit all of us in there?
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 22, 2011 14:59:26 GMT -5
I was about to click that, but I just spent ten minutes following up on a compulsion to balance precariously on my chair and stare at the ceiling, so I think the fact that I can do it is a foregone conclusion, although I can easily test that the next time I feel like doing nothing for a while.
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Rituals
Jan 22, 2011 14:34:11 GMT -5
Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 22, 2011 14:34:11 GMT -5
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 19, 2011 5:54:51 GMT -5
I picture elves as black. Not sure why, it just appeals to me.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 18, 2011 11:25:38 GMT -5
I am particularly fond of "Demmocratt"
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 18, 2011 8:08:14 GMT -5
I'll vote for Shifting World, and I really can't say about media, so Wordpress sounds fine to me.
Sigma's revision to the magic system, using sustained focus seems alright to me, but I would think that the situation you described of creating a new pattern for the body to work from would be a different spell to temporary transmutation, and if we go with magic as no replacement for knowledge wouldn't that require some knowledge of DNA? Or perhaps have centuries of magical experimentation pretty much getting the knack of it, but not understanding quite why it works?
I'm fairly okay with the trifetica of races, but I'd like them to be relatively distant from archetypical fantasy races. They'd have seperate cultures and ethnicities, just like we do. Elves should definitely not be immortal, and I don't think dwarves should be truly subterranean for storytelling purposes more than anything. I'd also vote on the mule option for hybrids.
As for Djinn etc. I'm not sure, ideally if someone could come up with some more concrete ideas of how they might work and we can see if it looks any good?
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 17, 2011 17:08:39 GMT -5
<snip> So that's the starting point. Unfortunately, it's not. You forget history. The presence of different fantasy races (continued presence, since we presume that they don't get wiped out except one) has a huge influence on society and politics. To presume that with 3+ different races competing, we would end up with the same nations, is ludicrous. Even if we have a mixed, non-segregated society everywhere, we will still have something else than a 1910 world in which two millions of elves have been suddenly spawned. We pretty much have to make up our entire history from the tribal stage onwards. This. The idea I was talking about earlier for the area of modern day China starts by retconning the Shang dynasty oracle bones as using a specific field of magic and re-imagining the history from there. This is why I thought some discussion of the set-up would be a good idea; by swinging in writing in a setting where China is not only culturally quite different from modern times but one of several powers based in what we think of as the Chinese heartland I could be totally knocking the legs out from someone else who also wants to write something set in that part of the world. But we do also need to sort out the number of different races, and how they interact; would we have multi-race societies, races separated politically and geographically, or overlapping nations with jurisdiction only over their own races, or multiple systems or what?
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 17, 2011 8:08:50 GMT -5
So at the minute the general consensus seems to be early-20th century, our world, competing theories of an underlying magic system, and relatively free reign with creatures?
I like the basics of the magic system Yla suggested, I'm quite happy to go with that. Has anyone got any ideas about political geography and balances of power and how they might turn out with creatures and magic added in? I have a few ideas about the set-up in the area of modern-day China that would rather throw the map about there, might be good to see if we can get at least a loose idea of who and where the major powers are, or any big changes from our universe.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 15, 2011 16:13:35 GMT -5
I also vote for the whole world and competing systems of magic, and no to the masquerade.
How closely alt are we talking though? Do people want basically our world but if it had evolved with magic and fantasy creatures in it?
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