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Why Apple will (probably) announce the new iPhone on Sept. 10

Why Apple will (probably) announce the new iPhone on Sept. 10

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> The Apple iPhone XS. Angela Lang/CNET With Samsung taking the wraps off the Note 10, Note 10 Plus and Note 10 5G yesterday, its soon time for its rival to step up to the plate. Every year, Apple needs to whip up something exciting if it wants to get people hyped about the next iPhone. The same holds true especially for this year. With iPhone sales falling 12% in the fiscal third quarter, profits expected to dip to…

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Birds

Birds

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I have now decided that the Nahul word for ‘crow’ is surakh, which also meant deciding that this world has crows in the first place.   This makes me wonder – what bird words have you come up with in your languages? Whether it’s the word for ‘bird’, for specific species or types of birds, or other bird-related words. Are the species invented, too? Anything else you feel like sharing about birds in your languages, or in your worldbuilding? (I…

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English Sentence Generation

English Sentence Generation

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Today, I’ll describe the inner workings of the English sentence generator I talked about a while ago. (I’m a bit overdue, but I figure better late than never.) (I’m a lot overdue, actually, and left this as a draft for like a month and a half or so, so the other editors may have seen it (I don’t know how WordPress handles permissions on these)) This project leverages most of the features of my word generator, so I would recommend…

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Question: What do I call this verb stem?

Question: What do I call this verb stem?

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I have a verb stem in Akachenti that gets used by itself for a variation on present indicative which indicates that this situation/action will continue in the future, e.g. I love you now and expect to keep on doing so. With a non-present marker, the stem is used to indicate simple future tense, e.g. I will come to love you. The normal present is the unmarked stem and indicates the action began previously and also occurs now. You could call…

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Conlanging Film Released

Conlanging Film Released

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The Conlanging documentary by Britton Watkins has just been released (or on Monday if you crowdfunded it). It features interviews with hobbyists as well as conlangers from various media franchises. I haven’t seen the bonus feature yet, but lots of good stuff here!

Show me your dictionaries? What makes a good dictionary?

Show me your dictionaries? What makes a good dictionary?

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I am getting to the point where I don’t want my dictionary and my grammar in the same file anymore, so I’m setting up a separate dictionary file soon. I downloaded Lexique Pro to try it out but honestly, I think I’d rather just do a text file for mine. It just seems easier? I don’t know. How do you organize and format your dictionary? What sorta info do you include? What do you think characterizes a good dictionary? If…

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Thought Experiment – What would a dragonborn accent sound like?

Thought Experiment – What would a dragonborn accent sound like?

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In August my D&D group are starting a new campaign and I’ll be playing a Dragonborn for the first time. For those unfamiliar, dragonborn is a D&D fantasy race that’s basically a reptiloid race with dragon blood. When you watch rpg streams and stuff, there’s a tendency for people to give dragonborn chars this deep, big, broad-chested kind of voice. I don’t really wanna do that: partially I don’t think I’d be good at it and partially I don’t think…

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