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In Human culture the analogy between day, year and life is very precise: each one has four seasons (that are further divided into three periods each).
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Let's consider the first periods:
• Primanɔtte (Earlynight) is like Priminvɛrno (Earlywinter) and when you are a bambino (a person from 0 to 7 years old).
• Primanɔtte (Earlynight) is like Priminvɛrno (Earlywinter) and when you are a bambino (a person from 0 to 7 years old).
• Meʒʒanɔtte (Midnight) is like Meʒʒinvɛrno (Midwinter) and when you are a citto (a person from 7 to 14 years old).
• Tardanɔtte (Latenight) is like Tardinvɛrno (Latewinter) and when you are a ragazzo (a person from 14 to 21 years old).
• Tardanɔtte (Latenight) is like Tardinvɛrno (Latewinter) and when you are a ragazzo (a person from 14 to 21 years old).
The rationale behind alphabetical order in Human:
• 1 vowel, 4 consonants, 1 vowel, 4 consonants...
• Impulse vowel (ɔ) at the beginning, culmination vowel (a) at the centre, cadence vowel (ɛ) at the end.
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• 1 vowel, 4 consonants, 1 vowel, 4 consonants...
• Impulse vowel (ɔ) at the beginning, culmination vowel (a) at the centre, cadence vowel (ɛ) at the end.
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• Impulse nasal (m) at the beginning, culmination nasal (n) at the centre, cadence nasal (ŋ) at the end.
• Pure letter (h) at the centre.
• Elemental vowels follow the order of the Elements: Water (u), Air (e), Fire (i), Earth (o).
• Pure letter (h) at the centre.
• Elemental vowels follow the order of the Elements: Water (u), Air (e), Fire (i), Earth (o).
• Non-nasal sonorants near their elemental vowel: Water (ʋ), Air (l), Fire (j), Earth (r).
We have reached this definition connecting the dots of apparently unrelated impressions and ideas about peaches:
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@ashkiriel and @karmanphilchick Fragility and softness: tender things clearly show their incorruptness, because any corruption would be easily perceived
@learnsomepopo2022 Sunlight: it is pure and it represents truth
@learnsomepopo2022 Sunlight: it is pure and it represents truth
@atlantic.language Disappointment: incorrupted things may be disappointingly dull, compared to adulterated ones
@karmanphilchick Refreshment: experiencing incorruptness is like fresh air to the spirit
@karmanphilchick Refreshment: experiencing incorruptness is like fresh air to the spirit
Tonight's the last episode of #GameOfThrones, and if you'll allow, I'd like to reflect. The whole things started for me ten years ago on September 9th—the first day of the Dothraki competition. But the real story starts before that. (Longish thread.) #conlang
Back when they were auditioning actors, Dan Weiss and David Benioff had some gibberish lines for the Dothraki, and had those auditioning kind of make stuff up, and they found the results unsatisfactory. They decided they needed a real language for the Dothraki to speak.
At that point, they COULD have done a number of things. They could've asked their assistant to make something up. They could've gone to Google Translate and done a mashup. They could've reached out to a random nearby linguistics department. Other productions have done just that.
