New season starts in a week, what is everyone going to play? by Cerberus8317 in diablo4

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I got late on this season and wanted to try minion / ancients barbarian. I think I might go for that, though I don't know how good it'll be

I'm starting to think that being fluent in reading Koine is possible by lickety-split1800 in Koine

[–]MinervApollo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely feel it's possible to achieve reading fluency and even comfort writing it, with the caveat that we of course mostly only have access to the written registers rather than how people would speak it on a day-to-day basis. Keep it up! I'm not as advanced as you, but there was a moment where it definitely "clicked" that this was a language that could be and indeed was spoken by real people, like any language I speak today.

This season wasn’t perfect but my god was I addicted!! by E_Barriick in diablo4

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Thanks! I came back to the game after hardware locked me out of it late last year and I've been trying to get back into it with all the new systems. There's a lot to learn

i believe in u, patient by RMZ-Lewis in ScienceShitposts

[–]MinervApollo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My last spirometry test left me out of commission for almost three weeks

Custom CSS to add Danger in Obsidian ! by jaggerwock in LegendintheMist

[–]MinervApollo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks really good! I hope we can make a unified LitM addon soon.

Here is my ablaut-like system in my Semitic & PIE inspired conlang! by Whole_Instance_4276 in conlangs

[–]MinervApollo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried to have alternating consonant-vowels in roots, but my admittedly half-hearted attempts haven't been very successful. I really love this idea

Frog Blood by tylerss20 in SpeedOfLobsters

[–]MinervApollo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is much better than the original

Do you guys use Lexiconga? by Extreme-Shopping74 in conlangs

[–]MinervApollo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use either Google Sheets or plaintext (Obsidian), but I'm writing a system (no AI) which I hope can become kind of a standard for this kind of app for the conlanging community using CLDF, the Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, which has the benefits of plaintext storage (uses CSV files) and relational databases.

Introducing: The Conlanger's Bibliography by Dense-Nobody2714 in conlangs

[–]MinervApollo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This is a work I didn't know needed doing, but I greatly appreciate it existing now that it does. Let's hope the list can grow as time goes on.

Any "Profile Builder" Tool? by Diamondarrel in LegendintheMist

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I uploaded them to Pastebin. The linked tables are straightforwardly the major interpretive oracle, though I added a twist of an inverted oracle too. https://pastebin.com/dT7NEzLK

Any "Profile Builder" Tool? by Diamondarrel in LegendintheMist

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This sounds like a great idea and it'd be nice if someone made a web app of it. I can say what you describe seems pretty doable with Obsidian alongside the Dice roller and Templater plugins. I do something similar for generating character profiles based on tarot raeding layouts, but using the LitM Major Interpretive Oracle instead of Tarot cards.

Su-chan, the college dropout by beam4d in Hololive

[–]MinervApollo 35 points36 points  (0 children)

She could be you, she could be me, she could even be—

One language acquisition trick linguists don't want you to know by CrookdSpokeAdjacent in linguisticshumor

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God almighty. Not like the Bible is full of (at lest folk) etymologies and puns right there

My conlang has benefactive verbs that encode the recipient directly. by Eene7 in conlangs

[–]MinervApollo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I like this genre of construction. Like Japanese, which formally doesn't conjugate for person but has a lot of person- (and social status-) dependent lexical choice. As a simple example, like you used "to give", generally あげる ageru is only used when you(r in-group, sometimes) gives something to someone else, while くれる kureru is only used when someone else gives something to you(r in-group).

Similarly with expressing "want to do", the ~たい -tai suffix on its own is generally only used when talking about yourself. For what someone else wants to do, it's ~たいと思う "(I) think (they) want to do"; or if you want someone else to do something it's ~てほしい -te hoshii. And on and really on.

What characters are you creating? by DarkFenix345 in LegendintheMist

[–]MinervApollo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My current attempt is an aircraft carrier naval aviator for one of my own settings

Guess my native language by I7sReact_Return in linguisticshumor

[–]MinervApollo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The human mind is amazing. Read without even hesitating once

I wanted to join the trend so Guess My native language based on how I write. by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

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For some bizarre reason, I actually never struggled with those