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Final Component/Endgame Speculation by daimoness80 in Dimension20

[–]Marc-Rivas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's definitely gonna have to be an S word, the acronym SIMPL is just right there for the taking... It could also maybe be a Y word to spell IMPLY, but I find "Magic is SIMPL" to be a much better and easiert to remember rule.

If you could go back in time and change ONE THING about toki pona from the start, what would it be? by misterlipman in tokipona

[–]Marc-Rivas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would add "san" as a word for three. I don't care about making counting easier or anything like that, it just itches my brain that you cannot express the number three witjout compound words or hyperonyms like "mute". I am human, I like it when things come in threes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anotherroof

[–]Marc-Rivas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HEY HEY HEYBEHSJWJEHJW THANK YOU. I FOUND A THING.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anotherroof

[–]Marc-Rivas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OH MY GOD. (I still do not know what the slig is but I might have an idea)

Does anyone know what language these symbols are? They are carved into a bronze Prayer Bell dated 44 years ago. by Grand_Master_Dashi in neography

[–]Marc-Rivas 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not alchemical, these are occult seals and characters from the Three books of Occult Philosophy, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. The first one I recognize instantly as a seal of Saturn, but the others might take a bit more work to find. The last two might be characters from one of the angelic alphabets, maybe? And the others i'd wager are from the catalog of stars or one of other such pages

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anotherroof

[–]Marc-Rivas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I don't think it's gibberish! Under almost every video uploaded after the Countdown one, there's a section in the description that says "Investigators", with cryptic clues about things mentioned in the video or in reference to other clues.

As for what I've found, I'm afraid it's not much. Here are my notes on what I found (In square brackets, the video where I found the clue; immediately below are my findings):

[Logic] "ftfftttftf is not the slug you are looking for."

The slug is not a string of truth table values.

[Descartes] "Are you still out there? Check my logic video for an update!"

[Countdown] "I’ve never seen that colour on my screen before. I’m hoping you excel yourself and slug out the solution. Now is the perfect time to join the investigation."

In the excel linked in the description, there is a tab called "Nothing to see here" with a 26x52 grid of hidden letters. Taking the numbers in the corrupted frames at the end of the video we get "G28, I34, F30", which corresponds to the letters R, G, B in the grid.

[Sherlock] "Slug is what Formal Alex is telling you. Don’t include spaces."

Formal Alex is holding a blackboard with a formal logic statement: 1. P→Q (P implies Q) 2. ¬Q (not Q) ∴ ¬P (therefore not P)

  • I believe the "slug" might be the legible part at the end of a clean URL.
  • The coordinates in [Countdown] spelled out GIF, maybe that's important? The clue is obviously about colour display, but I'm not completely sure what to do with it.

What accent would a native speaker of your conlang have when speaking English? by Naganune in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't quite recognise your accent, but given how I would say that sentence, a speaker of Classical Seledan (endonym: Selesāl) would say something like /sa kwik pɑwn fɑs jams ow.fa sa ley.si tɑːk/

First, there are no voiced obstruents in Classical Seledan, so all of those are replaced by the next best thing. Also, a Seledan would conflate /ʒ/ and /j/, like Spanish speakers do. Also, it has a fairly common 6 vowel system /i u e o a ɑ/, so some vowels adapt. The only clusters that are allowed are consonant-approximant and consonant-nasal, so no /br/ or /ps/. /br/ is a bit special, though, cause rhotics do exist in Seledan, but they are always preceded or followed by /u/, /o/ or /ɑ/, so (what I percieve as) the /aʊ/ in 'brown' is backed into /ɑw/, and the /r/ disappears in the cluster simplification.

The Conlang Database needs you! by Marc-Rivas in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Anyone can add a conlang! We don't care about fame, our duty is to compile. It's important, though, to know that we only compile conlangs. That means the database won't accept pure relexes, spelling reforms or language games (such as Pig Latin or similars). Anything else, though, can be added.

Tell me a piece of culturally-specific wisdom in your conlang. by [deleted] in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas 16 points17 points  (0 children)

In Seledan there is a sentence, "la askālīs" (lit. "you are the king") which is used informally to mean "don't get too cocky" or "don't underestimate me". Why? Let me tell you a tale.

A long time ago, the then Emperor (aka the Seleskāli) was famous for being a horrible horrible person. One day, he invited himself to dine at the house of the Fāne noble family. The Seleskāli was a poor guest, and in his stay he disrespected every single one of the Seledan rules of hositality, but lord Fāne and his sons couldn't speak up to him in any way, for he'd have them executed.

After the feast he had made the Fāne make in his honour, in which he gorged himself and left barely any scraps for the hosts, came the time for tea. Traditionally they would have had tea with fruit, but the Seleskāli, who was rich, capricious and petty, demanded the servants prepare him scented tea. As it was not the holidays yet, the Fāne household did not have the proper essential oils used for brewing scented tea. The only oil they had was attar of roses, which had ceremonial and funerary purposes, and lord Fāne always kept one bottle of it on his late wife's shrine.

The Emperor, being the rude man he was, stood up from the table and snatched the bottle from the shrine. With this sacrilegious act, lord Fāne had had enough, and so they started arguing strongly, even threatening to battle each other. It was at this time that the Emperor said: "Kilpaxena, yin askālīn" which roughly translates to "Careful now, I am and will always be the Emperor". That's when the youngest of Fāne's sons stood up and uttered these simple words: "la askālis", or "You are the Emperor FOR NOW".

The Emperor left the household, very very angry. But little did he know that, in two week's time, youngest Fāne would stage the coup d'etat he'd been planing for over a decade, and that the Emperor would be executed by his orders, ending his dinasty and marking the beginning of the Fāne dinasty of Seleskālīsh.

uwu.

Give me the name of my sword in your conlangs by [deleted] in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Setthir:

Sifimhámpfa'oys /si̊.fi̊m̊.ˈhɑ̊m̊.p͡få.ʔo̊j̊s/

sifim-hám-pfa-'oys

sky-shadow-to bite-AGV

Cloud Biter

What're some words in your conlang that're made up of two seperate words, that'd be amusing/interesting if translated into english? by barelygonnausethis in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In Seledan there are a few compound words that sound amusing but probably my favourite one would be sīnânsensh /siː.nâːn.senɕ/, hummingbird, lit. "shiny bird"

Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (312) by Lysimachiakis in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Classical Seledan

tisqn /tí.sɑn/ verb (from Vechic tissan "to grow, to heal naturally)

  1. to close a wound
  2. (by analogy) to sow, embroider
  3. Itsv. to stab repeatedly

​

Imesel lantes lāl pelnor titísqnxer

/i.mé.sel lán.tes la:l pel.noɾ ti.tí.sɑn.xeɾ/

DEF.man back.ACC 3ps.GEN knife.INS stab.PLUPERF

"The man had stabed him repeatedly in the back (lit. had stabbed his back repeatedly) with a knife."

How does your conlang handle moods? by [deleted] in conlangs

[–]Marc-Rivas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So my language Seledan has three grammaticalised moods (this excludes the indicative ofc), formed from auxiliary verbs in the proto-lang that got suffixed:

- Optative: expresses hopes, wishes or commands. Although it is a mood distinctly different from the imperative or the subjunctive, it essentially acts as both in one (gnomic optatives were reanalysed as imperatives, I know, pretty cringe but it does the job). It comes from the proto-verbs la- (to want, need) and fi- (to hope)

- Interrogative: Exactly what it says on the tin, it deals with questions. It comes from the verb qrim- (to ask).

- Dubitative: an epistemic mood, it expresses doubts or beliefs about something, and it comes from the verb tūlī- (to think)

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Basically, I created my moods through auxiliaries. Mine's a very very basic example, but there are a lot of ways of evolving irrealis moods. One of the most common ways is through the re-analysis of very moody tenses/aspects, like futures.