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Basic Vocabulary for Philologists :
I'm starting this topic to avoid cluttering up the Historical Linguistics thread with musings about it.
After a hiatus of a couple weeks- caused mainly by apathy deriving from a bout of depression- I'm right back working on this thing.
Currently, it's a bunch of spreadsheets. I have [i]Classical Vocabulary for Philologists[/i], which contains sheets for Latin, Greek and Sanskrit; [i]Romance Vocabulary for Philologists[/i], which contains Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, F...
I'm starting this topic to avoid cluttering up the Historical Linguistics thread with musings about it.
After a hiatus of a couple weeks- caused mainly by apathy deriving from a bout of depression- I'm right back working on this thing.
Currently, it's a bunch of spreadsheets. I have [i]Classical Vocabulary for Philologists[/i], which contains sheets for Latin, Greek and Sanskrit; [i]Romance Vocabulary for Philologists[/i], which contains Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, F...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-12 20:51:13.
The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-10-12 16:56:12) :
So, I've been working on the Basic Vocab for Philologists again. For the Latin spreadsheet, I just got every word out of the Dickinson list as a spreadsheet column. One thing I would like to do is add any words that are also found in Wheelock's that aren't in the frequency list, although I don't know how to do that, since the columns aren't in identical format.
For Greek, the biggest frequency list is Dickinson's, although that's only about 500 words. Any words that are in Cheadle that...
So, I've been working on the Basic Vocab for Philologists again. For the Latin spreadsheet, I just got every word out of the Dickinson list as a spreadsheet column. One thing I would like to do is add any words that are also found in Wheelock's that aren't in the frequency list, although I don't know how to do that, since the columns aren't in identical format.
For Greek, the biggest frequency list is Dickinson's, although that's only about 500 words. Any words that are in Cheadle that...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-12 17:01:58.
The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-10-11 13:25:43) :
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]Any feedback from it on why it does that? Could be gravitational reasons certain orbits aren't tenable.
I really need to work out all the details of Šaol's star, so I can edit Aldebaran into it.[/quote]
Nope. You just try typing in, say, 0.7 AU for Venus's orbit, and it will decide 0.65 was a much better choice and give you that. It often tries to screw with the eccentricity, too.
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]Any feedback from it on why it does that? Could be gravitational reasons certain orbits aren't tenable.
I really need to work out all the details of Šaol's star, so I can edit Aldebaran into it.[/quote]
Nope. You just try typing in, say, 0.7 AU for Venus's orbit, and it will decide 0.65 was a much better choice and give you that. It often tries to screw with the eccentricity, too.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-11 14:10:14.
The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-10-11 12:42:05) :
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]I don't know enough of the physics to say for sure, but I'm not exactly surprised. Venus is smaller than Earth, thus it's going to have a lot less geothermal heating going on. I don't know if its orbit is close enough to counteract that. You might try adjusting its distance inward to see if you can thaw the iceball.
Also have you found any better way of building a solar system than editing Sol or starting from absolute scratch? The pregenera...
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]I don't know enough of the physics to say for sure, but I'm not exactly surprised. Venus is smaller than Earth, thus it's going to have a lot less geothermal heating going on. I don't know if its orbit is close enough to counteract that. You might try adjusting its distance inward to see if you can thaw the iceball.
Also have you found any better way of building a solar system than editing Sol or starting from absolute scratch? The pregenera...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-11 12:48:50.
The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-10-11 00:41:49) :
So Universe Sandbox has confirmed, as far as I'm going to investigate it, that a hot-Jupiter scenario for my conworld is plausible. The star is about 5% more luminous than the Sun is, and the planet- a gas giant with 1.25 the mass of Jupiter- is at 1.10 AU. As for the "moon", it's about 9000 km in radius and somewhat more massive than the Earth. It has no sub-moon. It's unclear whether you can ever make sub-moons stable.
In several ways, I feel like inhabited moons might be even more pl...
So Universe Sandbox has confirmed, as far as I'm going to investigate it, that a hot-Jupiter scenario for my conworld is plausible. The star is about 5% more luminous than the Sun is, and the planet- a gas giant with 1.25 the mass of Jupiter- is at 1.10 AU. As for the "moon", it's about 9000 km in radius and somewhat more massive than the Earth. It has no sub-moon. It's unclear whether you can ever make sub-moons stable.
In several ways, I feel like inhabited moons might be even more pl...
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The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-10-10 16:35:40) :
In other news, Universe Sandbox appears to confirm that a Hot Jupiter setup isn't at all implausible. I constructed a gas giant with 1.25 Jupiter's mass and sent it around the sun at 1.05 AU. Around the gas giant I sent an Earth-like moon with a 10,000 km radius, which had a Charon-sized moon of its own, and, further out, a second gas giant (about half the size of Neptune) orbiting the bigger one. All orbits were stable.
(It MAY be a bitch for spacecraft, depending- Charon orbited the E...
In other news, Universe Sandbox appears to confirm that a Hot Jupiter setup isn't at all implausible. I constructed a gas giant with 1.25 Jupiter's mass and sent it around the sun at 1.05 AU. Around the gas giant I sent an Earth-like moon with a 10,000 km radius, which had a Charon-sized moon of its own, and, further out, a second gas giant (about half the size of Neptune) orbiting the bigger one. All orbits were stable.
(It MAY be a bitch for spacecraft, depending- Charon orbited the E...
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What are you listening to? (2014-10-08 16:21:07) :
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The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-10-04 18:39:56) :
[quote Rhetorica, Duchess of Space]...Because there's something inherently funny about obnoxious smugness—if you're trying to ruin the community, anyway. Bad Ness!
A quick bit of Wikipedia-ing says that neuter came from an inanimate class, and both masculine and feminine came from an animate class (and another source says that feminine came from a mixing of the two. Said [http://www.tundria.com/Linguistics/pie-nom-morphology.shtml|other source] may help you figure it out.)[/quote]
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[quote Rhetorica, Duchess of Space]...Because there's something inherently funny about obnoxious smugness—if you're trying to ruin the community, anyway. Bad Ness!
A quick bit of Wikipedia-ing says that neuter came from an inanimate class, and both masculine and feminine came from an animate class (and another source says that feminine came from a mixing of the two. Said [http://www.tundria.com/Linguistics/pie-nom-morphology.shtml|other source] may help you figure it out.)[/quote]
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The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-10-04 15:16:29) :
Just downloaded! About to boot up...
Just downloaded! About to boot up...
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Maps (2014-10-03 16:18:19) :
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[img]http://media3.giphy.com/media/BNkHCHnAsZwRi/200_s.gif[/img]
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The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-10-02 16:56:00) :
My dictionary sources seem to transliterate OCS, but not Greek. Since OCS has a number of weirder characters that most people who know Russian Cyrillic won't have come across, this sounds like a good model.
However, we should also be cognizant, for a "Latin/Greek/Sanskrit Vocabulary for Philologists", of what languages people will actually know. It's easier to see cognates between Greek and Avestan than between Greek and modern Persian, for example, but...how many of us actually know an...
My dictionary sources seem to transliterate OCS, but not Greek. Since OCS has a number of weirder characters that most people who know Russian Cyrillic won't have come across, this sounds like a good model.
However, we should also be cognizant, for a "Latin/Greek/Sanskrit Vocabulary for Philologists", of what languages people will actually know. It's easier to see cognates between Greek and Avestan than between Greek and modern Persian, for example, but...how many of us actually know an...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-02 17:23:49.
The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-10-02 13:27:47) :
Since the Greek spreadsheet was so unwieldy, but had little data, I've scrapped it. I'm starting on Latin, now, with [url=http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list]this frequency list[/url]. Etymologies are pulled from de Vaan, 2008 (the Leiden Etymological Dictionary series.) Greek etymologies, when I get to them, will probably end up being pulled from a combination of Beekes and Chantraine.
This time around, can we please write Greek in its native alphabet? Maybe write the Slavic...
Since the Greek spreadsheet was so unwieldy, but had little data, I've scrapped it. I'm starting on Latin, now, with [url=http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list]this frequency list[/url]. Etymologies are pulled from de Vaan, 2008 (the Leiden Etymological Dictionary series.) Greek etymologies, when I get to them, will probably end up being pulled from a combination of Beekes and Chantraine.
This time around, can we please write Greek in its native alphabet? Maybe write the Slavic...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-02 14:13:15.
The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-10-01 12:52:17) :
Update on my end of the situation: I've finished the Anki deck through xi, about to start on omicron, and then I'll start back on the spreadsheet. I'm going to try and redo how I have it set up- possibly with a second sub-spreadsheet for principle parts. Instead of doing each word completely, I'll put in the head words and their definitions first, so that we have a clearer idea of what words are going to be used.
Update on my end of the situation: I've finished the Anki deck through xi, about to start on omicron, and then I'll start back on the spreadsheet. I'm going to try and redo how I have it set up- possibly with a second sub-spreadsheet for principle parts. Instead of doing each word completely, I'll put in the head words and their definitions first, so that we have a clearer idea of what words are going to be used.
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-01 12:52:17.
Grrr Thread (2014-10-01 12:25:48) :
Which brilliant Anki coder decided to alphabetize Greek words with rough breathings seperately from those with smooth?
Which brilliant Anki coder decided to alphabetize Greek words with rough breathings seperately from those with smooth?
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The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-09-29 16:34:45) :
Hmm, maybe I [i]do[/i] want to buy Universe Sandbox...
Hmm, maybe I [i]do[/i] want to buy Universe Sandbox...
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The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-09-29 10:20:30) :
Hmm. What if the planet has a ring system, and the inner moon is a ring shepherd with very little mass?
(Not a large ring system. Just a couple of thin bands of rock.)
Hmm. What if the planet has a ring system, and the inner moon is a ring shepherd with very little mass?
(Not a large ring system. Just a couple of thin bands of rock.)
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The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-09-29 10:10:47) :
How would you prefer to set up the principle parts of verbs? For adjectives and nouns you only need two or three forms to know for certainly how they decline, but for Greek verbs you need six, and it's not just a problem of endings. It should be easier with Latin (four forms for verbs, two for nouns, three for adjectives), but for Sanskrit it becomes much more difficult- I don't think anybody has tried to create a principle part system for Sanskrit verbs; we'd be better off just making a digital...
How would you prefer to set up the principle parts of verbs? For adjectives and nouns you only need two or three forms to know for certainly how they decline, but for Greek verbs you need six, and it's not just a problem of endings. It should be easier with Latin (four forms for verbs, two for nouns, three for adjectives), but for Sanskrit it becomes much more difficult- I don't think anybody has tried to create a principle part system for Sanskrit verbs; we'd be better off just making a digital...
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The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-09-29 09:53:58) :
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]FYI, double moons are a nightmare to work out.[/quote]
What makes them such a nightmare? Is it just their gravitational interaction with each other? If I have a preset orbital resonance in mind, can I figure out what size and distance I need for the moons?
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]FYI, double moons are a nightmare to work out.[/quote]
What makes them such a nightmare? Is it just their gravitational interaction with each other? If I have a preset orbital resonance in mind, can I figure out what size and distance I need for the moons?
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The Worldbuilding Questions Thread :
How large can I make my main world, but retain an Earth-like magnetic field and Earth-ish (not necessarily exact, but mostly so) gravity?
How large can I make my main world, but retain an Earth-like magnetic field and Earth-ish (not necessarily exact, but mostly so) gravity?
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-09-29 09:11:08.
,The Worldbuilding Questions Thread (2014-09-29 00:58:39) :
Three earth radii is a bit much even for my planet- I was thinking more like a radius and a half. This planet also has two moons; I don't know whether they're Moon-sized, though. I am thinking that they would be in some sort of orbital resonance with each other, and be used in early date-keeping. (For example, let's suppose the inner moon has a period of 15 days, and the outer moon one of 25 days, in a 3:5 resonance. Then several cultures would have a seventy-five day "month" based on the transi...
Three earth radii is a bit much even for my planet- I was thinking more like a radius and a half. This planet also has two moons; I don't know whether they're Moon-sized, though. I am thinking that they would be in some sort of orbital resonance with each other, and be used in early date-keeping. (For example, let's suppose the inner moon has a period of 15 days, and the outer moon one of 25 days, in a 3:5 resonance. Then several cultures would have a seventy-five day "month" based on the transi...
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