(To illustrate some of the issues.) As the classic example of the effects of physics upon interstellar relations, consider the short and inconclusive conflict known as the Odeln Extrality Incident (from the Imperial perspective), or the First Border War (from the Republican perspective). It is generally agreed that the cause
Today’s cross-infection between professions: since I’m mucking about with date/time libraries in .NET as the moment in my day job, wondering what a relatively (heh) simple type like, say, System.DateTime would look like in the Eldraeverse, where convenient assumptions like sharing the same concept of “now”
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Inasmuch as Eldraeic is a language axiomatically optimized, grammatically and lexicographically speaking, for maximal precision and minimal ambiguity in the transmission of information while simultaneously permitting undertakings of verbal ludosity and operating successfully in minimal-context, including cross-cultural and polyspecific, environments, and maintaining properly exquisite mathematico-philosophic elegance, it’s
Mathematician’s Answer: The nature of the Eldraeic language, being designed as it was by mathematicians as well as logicians, philosophers, and linguists, positively encourages these. (So does the cultural attitude in favor of precision and in disfavor of the sloppy speaker and the plain intellectually inadequate.) In fact, if
Japanese Honorifics: Obviously don’t exist per se, but Eldraeic has just about as many honorifics, and uses them every bit as often – non-native speakers are advised. This makes much Eldraeic speech seem excessively formal in English, but then, most native speakers of it are a formal lot.
Elfeminate: On the one hand, played straight. If there’s one thing that can be said for certain about the eldrae on first glance, it is that they are an extremely pretty species – by virtue of cultural virtues and fairly extensive engineering – that tends to the tall, slender, non-obviously-muscular, delicate-featured
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Remember the Conlang Card Exchange I mentioned a while back? Well, now that it’s the new year and all the participants have presumably received their cards, I thought it was about time I posted it up here for general enjoyment. Here, therefore, y’all go: A good-wishes card for
Not that you’d know that from my posting frequency as of late. But no, aten’t dead. Just more or less taken over by a large project in my Areas Of Work Other Than Writing, that has left me with precious little time and energy to be about my
There have been many battle-cries and war chants throughout history. Every legion has its own, indeed often several for different occasions, as do the House guards, most mercenary companies, and other military organizations great and small. Of all these, the most infamous are the Final Words of the destroyed Ninth
“…of stone originally dating back to the ninth century pre-Imperial. “The Merchancy Library: A little bit off the beaten track in a lower niche of Inisvaen’s Wind District (B Coster Court), the Merchancy Library houses one of the finest collections of antique tally-strings and slice-verified contracts dating back to
“Tell me about your experience of success in your career.” “Actually, I don’t have any memories of those times, although I’m told I was very successful in my work.” “You didn’t have any successes that were memorable?” “I was a missile guidance AI. I’m descended from