#collapsiblechrist

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Hello!

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@collapsiblechrist

Sorry, Tumblr isn't letting me reply directly to questions for some reason. If I understand your question, you're asking if there's something like con-accents for natural languages. I don't think I can help too much because I don't know too much about conlangs in the first place, so I can't really answer your question. Sorry!

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collapsiblechrist replied to your post: Oh well. Time for a Monopoly rematch. Watch me...

What about the mcDonald’s version?

You got me. I suck at the McDonald's version but only because I never go to McDonald's.

[isozyme]

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Anonymous asked you:  hey there! could i ask for your take on sopor slime and troll sleeping arrangements?

blackflirtlarping asked you:  What are your theories on sopor slime and troll sleep in general?

collapsiblechrist asked you:  What about recuperacoons, troll sleep cycles and the effects of sopor slime? What happens if a troll sleeps outside of it, etc.

So recuperacoons make very little sense if you're at all worried about drowning in your sleep.  It'd be like falling asleep in the bath every night and being surprised when you asphyxiated a month in.  Wow, nobody predicted that would be a bad idea at all.

Lungs aren't super well equipped to handle viscous slime, so the obvious solution is to not breathe at all while you sleep.  You have to get oxygen from somewhere, though, even if your metabolism bottoms out and you do a really spectacular catatonic state.  During sleep troll oxygen consumption goes way down, and they appear kind of dead, but they still respirate a little bit to keep up brain maintenance etc.  For insect trolls, this means that the spiracles have a bunch of hydrophobic hairs arrayed around the outside that keeps spoor slime (and other unpleasant wet things) out of them, which leaves an interface where oxygen can diffused into the trachea.  For less alien trolls, your other option is to absorb some oxygen through the skin.

Evolutionarily this suggests primordial amphibious trolls, who, in the daytime, would retreat to the dark, submerged clusters of mangrove roots or underwater cave systems, where it was harder for predators to drag them out and kill them.

The soporific effect of the slime is an interesting side effect of living in a society that has been technologically advanced for a long time, leading to species-wide chemical dependance.  Sopor is a great delivery mechanism for all sorts of drugs, from skin and hair products to antibiotics.*  Troll skin and hair is generally pretty hydrophobic, so the stuff doesn't cling to them as badly as it might every morning, although getting in with your clothes on is asking for those clothes to never be the same again.**

Have a xenobiology question of your own?  ASK IT HERE

*the stuff is packed with antibiotics anyway, because if it wasn't it'd be a microbial soup and would smell like the inside of a neglected 37 degree incubator, or, for those who never did microbiology lab, like every bad sock in the world all at once.

**they sleep naked I guess?

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ヽ (=^・ω・^=)ノ hi!!!

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igirisuk answered your question: So, uh… and I’m pretty sure that like half of...

ME ME ME ME ME. I’d be HAPPY to participate. I have a several-thousand-word conlang of my own, and I’m fluent in French and Japanese.

Oooh, awesome, that is way farther than I've ever gotten with my personal projects before I got distracted, haha. I'm hoping that it'll go easier if it's in little bits and slightly collaborative, etc.

g-isabellae answered your question: So, uh… and I’m pretty sure that like half of...

I’m into troll conlang-ing regardless of where or how it takes place. And I would ask you all about performativity, troll John Austin, etc.

That would be pretty neat to do, too, but man, there is so much grammar to develop before we can get to pragmatics and speech acts.

collapsiblechrist answered your question: So, uh… and I’m pretty sure that like half of...

I would be greatly interested in such a thing!

shewatchesworlds answered your question: So, uh… and I’m pretty sure that like half of...

I’d be totally interested in that :D

Oh good, it sounds like this is going to work! Now I need to take some time to compile that list and do up a quick phoneme inventory that reuses the upside-down Daedric alphabet for great justice.