Taken from an entry I posted at conlangsIn my Traipah storyverse, I have an interesting thing going on: the Ah'Koi Bahnis, who by human standards would all be considered to have Asperger's Syndrome, have a bunch of languages in their culture that are constructed languages in that culture. Even Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog, my main conlang for that storyverse, is a ( Read more... )

“A Question of Ethics”
By = Tristan A. ArtsWords - 3619 ( Read more... )

(Written the other day ( Read more... )

Oh, I didn't expect to get far in my writing last night, but I did. I had a hard time getting started. I must have been trying to get started on writing since about an hour after getting up, but didn't really get going until around 10 or 11 PM. Which is when I got on a roll! The prologue to Silence Speaking was maybe 5 pages when I started, and by ( Read more... )

Because I like to avoid planetary monocultures, Traipah has a number of religions and other cultures. I haven't done much exploration of other cultures yet, but along with Yahgahn, I have three other major religions for Traipah ( Read more... )

In doing some writing recently, I decided to check a few things with a friend and with Google. And with a calculator. I've known the time scale of Traipah's civilization for over a decade, but I found some stuff today that boggles my mind... Given that the Reformation happened 10 thousand years before 3232 AD, that means that the underground cities ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have this sentient herbivorous species called the Ah'Koi Bahnis in my main scifi universe. But for years, I've wondered how they evolved to sentience, when the best science said it was probably unlikely for an herbivorous species to have any reason to evolve sentience. Furthermore, they have binocular vision; Ah'Koi Bahnis look ( Read more... )

I was thinking, the other day, about how Traipah has three different formats for writing:
1. Book format, which starts at the "back" of the book (as we Westerners would figure things), moving toward the "front," the book turned "on its side." Then the actual writing starts at the bottom right of the page, moves upward, then when you get to the top ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed that in most scifi series, the main characters almost always understand the way alien math works? And sometimes the other way around; I'm watching an episode of Stargate: Universe where some aliens in a galaxy billions of light years from our own have somehow implanted Chloe with the knowledge of advanced *human* mathematics. ( Read more... )

So, I got some help from Brooke in figuring out how to convert between bases 10 and 6, because Traipah's math system is base 6. I haven't rigorously tested it yet, but I think I have it understood ( Read more... )