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Money Thread (2019-03-19 19:33:49) :
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1]Try something like [https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/tag/svg|Public Domain Vectors] or [https://openclipart.org/tags/woodcut|OpenClipart], especially the woodcuts section thereof. I'd be surprised (impressed, but still surprised) if Bloodbath's work is completely from scratch, particularly all the photographed bits.
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I do use some line art drawings from [url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]Wikimedia Commons[/url], most...
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1]Try something like [https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/tag/svg|Public Domain Vectors] or [https://openclipart.org/tags/woodcut|OpenClipart], especially the woodcuts section thereof. I'd be surprised (impressed, but still surprised) if Bloodbath's work is completely from scratch, particularly all the photographed bits.
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I do use some line art drawings from [url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]Wikimedia Commons[/url], most...
owned by bloodbath, Ph.D., last edited 2019-03-19 19:37:33.
Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-19 09:57:53) :
What does the accent on that <ú> stand for? Tonic vowel?
What does the accent on that <ú> stand for? Tonic vowel?
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-19 09:57:53.
Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-18 21:40:37) :
The script used in [http://anthologi.ca/?id=262928&posts_pagenum=0#263964|this Money Thread] post:
[image:http://rhetori.ca/misc/talmota-wip.png|margin: auto; display: block]
This has a very simple ductus; the oval nib is consistent throughout the script. As is obvious, I was aiming to riff on Semitic abjads, particularly Arabic.
The script used in [http://anthologi.ca/?id=262928&posts_pagenum=0#263964|this Money Thread] post:
[image:http://rhetori.ca/misc/talmota-wip.png|margin: auto; display: block]
This has a very simple ductus; the oval nib is consistent throughout the script. As is obvious, I was aiming to riff on Semitic abjads, particularly Arabic.
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-18 21:40:37.
Money Thread (2019-03-18 21:26:58) :
...Of course, I [i]say[/i] that, and then promptly discover those particular sources are somewhat crap. Still, the idea stands?
[image:http://rhetori.ca/misc/vigla-sarthia.png|display: block; margin: auto]
Here's an example of early Lilitic currency (with yet another new script!), a 58 mm × 23 mm × 8.3 mm metal bar (similar to a slip of gold-pressed Latinum, really.) As I've mentioned in the distant, foggy past, the Lilitai back their money directly with labour, and issue a single d...
...Of course, I [i]say[/i] that, and then promptly discover those particular sources are somewhat crap. Still, the idea stands?
[image:http://rhetori.ca/misc/vigla-sarthia.png|display: block; margin: auto]
Here's an example of early Lilitic currency (with yet another new script!), a 58 mm × 23 mm × 8.3 mm metal bar (similar to a slip of gold-pressed Latinum, really.) As I've mentioned in the distant, foggy past, the Lilitai back their money directly with labour, and issue a single d...
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-18 21:27:16.
Money Thread (2019-03-18 20:09:09) :
Try something like [https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/tag/svg|Public Domain Vectors] or [https://openclipart.org/tags/woodcut|OpenClipart], especially the woodcuts section thereof. I'd be surprised (impressed, but still surprised) if Bloodbath's work is completely from scratch, particularly all the photographed bits.
Try something like [https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/tag/svg|Public Domain Vectors] or [https://openclipart.org/tags/woodcut|OpenClipart], especially the woodcuts section thereof. I'd be surprised (impressed, but still surprised) if Bloodbath's work is completely from scratch, particularly all the photographed bits.
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-18 20:09:09.
Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-18 19:53:25) :
I have updated the chart to show lower case fimfa's quill variant. The weird straight arm is now curved as it would appear if written with a quill or rigid pen.
I have updated the chart to show lower case fimfa's quill variant. The weird straight arm is now curved as it would appear if written with a quill or rigid pen.
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-18 19:53:25.
Money Thread (2019-03-18 19:41:02) :
Your money is too beautiful for this world, how do you not have a job designing money irl :o
(Also I've been trying to design Hoennese coinage but drawing a blank as to obverse designs… doesn't help that I can't draw anything more complicated than simple geometric shapes myself, either vector or raster.)
Your money is too beautiful for this world, how do you not have a job designing money irl :o
(Also I've been trying to design Hoennese coinage but drawing a blank as to obverse designs… doesn't help that I can't draw anything more complicated than simple geometric shapes myself, either vector or raster.)
owned by Hâlian, last edited 2019-03-18 19:41:02.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2019-03-18 19:38:12) :
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1]Weird and weird. The cause: I was trying to speed up the forums; it turns out we've been accumulating huge heaps of empty database entries whenever someone read a forum post. Ugh. So I changed it to a delete command, which apparently (for some terrible reason) had a permissions check in it, one that apparently doesn't work very well. Not a feature I'd actually used before.
I've removed that permissions check (as it was inconsistent with how...
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1]Weird and weird. The cause: I was trying to speed up the forums; it turns out we've been accumulating huge heaps of empty database entries whenever someone read a forum post. Ugh. So I changed it to a delete command, which apparently (for some terrible reason) had a permissions check in it, one that apparently doesn't work very well. Not a feature I'd actually used before.
I've removed that permissions check (as it was inconsistent with how...
owned by Hâlian, last edited 2019-03-18 19:38:12.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2019-03-18 19:36:25) :
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1](My PM inbox does actually work here; I was just spectacularly busy before.)[/quote]
Every time I've tried to PM you, either here or on my main account, it throws “[b]Failure![/b] Message could not be sent to Rhetorica.” ☹
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1](My PM inbox does actually work here; I was just spectacularly busy before.)[/quote]
Every time I've tried to PM you, either here or on my main account, it throws “[b]Failure![/b] Message could not be sent to Rhetorica.” ☹
owned by Hālian's Alt, last edited 2019-03-18 19:36:25.
Money Thread (2019-03-18 17:51:47) :
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1]What's the difference between "dénare" and "dénarak"? Does the language have a special paucal form specifically for ten of something?[/quote]
Ilian actually has four plural suffixes:
[ul][li]–y/–i, used for the dual (ex. [i]kéty dénar[b]y[/b][/i]) or for numbers ending with 2 (ex.[i] hésankéty dénary[/i])[/li]
[li]–e/–u, used for the paucal (3, 4, or 5; ex. [i]harãje dénar[b]e[/b][/i]) or any numbers ending with 3, 4, or 5[/li]
[li]–...
[quote Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1]What's the difference between "dénare" and "dénarak"? Does the language have a special paucal form specifically for ten of something?[/quote]
Ilian actually has four plural suffixes:
[ul][li]–y/–i, used for the dual (ex. [i]kéty dénar[b]y[/b][/i]) or for numbers ending with 2 (ex.[i] hésankéty dénary[/i])[/li]
[li]–e/–u, used for the paucal (3, 4, or 5; ex. [i]harãje dénar[b]e[/b][/i]) or any numbers ending with 3, 4, or 5[/li]
[li]–...
owned by bloodbath, Ph.D., last edited 2019-03-18 17:51:47.
Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-18 15:19:32) :
I could see it being done with a brush more credibly, yeah. I just don't think the left edge of the stroke in ylf can be drawn straightly with a normal quill or pen without a lot of awkwardness or a custom tool. And yes, fimfa's arm is perfectly drawable with the edge of a tool, it's just a stylistic anomaly compared to the rest of the script, as you have a thin line at the same angle as the thickest parts of every other letter.
I could see it being done with a brush more credibly, yeah. I just don't think the left edge of the stroke in ylf can be drawn straightly with a normal quill or pen without a lot of awkwardness or a custom tool. And yes, fimfa's arm is perfectly drawable with the edge of a tool, it's just a stylistic anomaly compared to the rest of the script, as you have a thin line at the same angle as the thickest parts of every other letter.
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-18 15:19:32.
Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-18 14:12:07) :
Thanks for the feedback.
Bear in mind that [i]sunchí[/i] was written with quills or calligraphic brushes (this is mentioned in the article), so the shape of letters doesn't need to follow the strict pattern left by a quill. Being quills and brushes the instruments used the shapes varied from document to document, although not excessively. Regarding the shapes shown in the article, these are to be considered modern typographic versions of the classic style found in old texts.
Re...
Thanks for the feedback.
Bear in mind that [i]sunchí[/i] was written with quills or calligraphic brushes (this is mentioned in the article), so the shape of letters doesn't need to follow the strict pattern left by a quill. Being quills and brushes the instruments used the shapes varied from document to document, although not excessively. Regarding the shapes shown in the article, these are to be considered modern typographic versions of the classic style found in old texts.
Re...
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-18 14:12:07.
Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-18 11:23:24) :
Woah, time out. The minuscule ylf can't have that shape for its second stem. You'd have to use an unevenly-cut quill to draw it[note]Such an instrument would not be usable for anything else in the entire script unless it's held backward; even to achieve the stroke drawn requires holding the pen at a very unusual angle. This would be more comfortable for a left-handed writer, but it would still put unusual pressure on the pen tip to draw the top of the stroke, as the left side of the tip would be...
Woah, time out. The minuscule ylf can't have that shape for its second stem. You'd have to use an unevenly-cut quill to draw it[note]Such an instrument would not be usable for anything else in the entire script unless it's held backward; even to achieve the stroke drawn requires holding the pen at a very unusual angle. This would be more comfortable for a left-handed writer, but it would still put unusual pressure on the pen tip to draw the top of the stroke, as the left side of the tip would be...
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-18 11:24:05.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2019-03-18 10:45:33) :
Weird and weird. The cause: I was trying to speed up the forums; it turns out we've been accumulating huge heaps of empty database entries whenever someone read a forum post. Ugh. So I changed it to a delete command, which apparently (for some terrible reason) had a permissions check in it, one that apparently doesn't work very well. Not a feature I'd actually used before.
I've removed that permissions check (as it was inconsistent with how other live data manipulation functions work), ...
Weird and weird. The cause: I was trying to speed up the forums; it turns out we've been accumulating huge heaps of empty database entries whenever someone read a forum post. Ugh. So I changed it to a delete command, which apparently (for some terrible reason) had a permissions check in it, one that apparently doesn't work very well. Not a feature I'd actually used before.
I've removed that permissions check (as it was inconsistent with how other live data manipulation functions work), ...
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-18 10:45:33.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2019-03-18 02:25:38) :
I have the same problem as Izambri with [i]everything[/i] on the forum past its front page on my main account. I tweeted at Rhetorica about it — since her PM box here is seemingly disabled — but no response yet. :(
I have the same problem as Izambri with [i]everything[/i] on the forum past its front page on my main account. I tweeted at Rhetorica about it — since her PM box here is seemingly disabled — but no response yet. :(
owned by Hālian's Alt, last edited 2019-03-18 02:25:38.
Vokram Speaks! (2019-03-17 16:55:59) :
[b]#isharia / 17-mar-2019[/b]
<Naima> ugh cheese when nearly 2/3rds of american christians are protestant and the catholics are like "what?" and then are never seen again and saved it as est!_ and saved it again anyway.
<Naima> in 1938 as the tiny country did not have norton antivirus installed at the time, but that time lasted two weeks ago that sat next to me at the time they ran into amelia he...
[b]#isharia / 17-mar-2019[/b]
<Naima> ugh cheese when nearly 2/3rds of american christians are protestant and the catholics are like "what?" and then are never seen again and saved it as est!_ and saved it again anyway.
<Naima> in 1938 as the tiny country did not have norton antivirus installed at the time, but that time lasted two weeks ago that sat next to me at the time they ran into amelia he...
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-17 16:55:59.
Featured Articles (Nominations, etc.) (2019-03-16 14:50:01) :
Yeah, looks like is that one or Anguipes' Monumental script. Although Anguipes isn't here to write a short text about it (I prefer not to do it myself because I don't know in detail how it works).
Yeah, looks like is that one or Anguipes' Monumental script. Although Anguipes isn't here to write a short text about it (I prefer not to do it myself because I don't know in detail how it works).
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-16 14:50:01.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2019-03-16 14:46:26) :
I can't access the Money Thread (in 'Department of Creativity'). I only see a page with "disaster! has_permissions() was called without an entry object. [...]"
I can't access the Money Thread (in 'Department of Creativity'). I only see a page with "disaster! has_permissions() was called without an entry object. [...]"
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-16 14:46:26.
The Graveyard (2019-03-15 20:41:23) :
I didn't know her and her story before but, hey, [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12131326|this woman] deserves to be remembered and celebrated.
Rest in peace, Freddie Oversteegen.
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I didn't know her and her story before but, hey, [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12131326|this woman] deserves to be remembered and celebrated.
Rest in peace, Freddie Oversteegen.
[center][image:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/ibWoiBNv7RnCugr0JpcMVVq2fkk=/620x349/smart/filters:quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LUMS2C4ZVND6LDLHIWRMIEHJYE.jpg][/center]
owned by Izambri, last edited 2019-03-15 20:41:23.
Index Translationum (2015-01-13 14:48:15) :
Icelandic is an interesting case... iirc Iceland has more authors per capita than anywhere else in the world and a very voracious reader's market. (Here's a citation: [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24399599]the Beeb[/url].) Given this, and when you consider the ubiquity of multilingualism in both India and Iceland, it's not really surprising that Iceland comes out on top for translations. Being [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate]more literate[/url] helps ...
Icelandic is an interesting case... iirc Iceland has more authors per capita than anywhere else in the world and a very voracious reader's market. (Here's a citation: [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24399599]the Beeb[/url].) Given this, and when you consider the ubiquity of multilingualism in both India and Iceland, it's not really surprising that Iceland comes out on top for translations. Being [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate]more literate[/url] helps ...
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2019-03-15 13:22:41.
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