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The Lost Worlds: HominimundusOne billion years hence. Humans and allies have largely disappeared, leaving only a few, residual races that are so grossly divergent that they resemble almost nothing like their original ancestors. However, humans, in their basic tetrapod forms, still survive on one distant, forgotten world.

Hominimundus – as we will call it – was a young world when one faction of Qu wanted to do an experiment with diversification. They wanted to see what kinds of divergent forms would eventually spring from a single common ancestor. To this end, they dumped a species of near-microscopic, embryo-like posthumans - along with various algae and oth

Newspell - A Phonetic Mode of Spelling for EnglishIntroduction:
Nūspel ("Newspell") is an experiment of mine to spell English words in a strict, phonetic manner, to solve the "ghoti" (pronounced "fish") problem. No changes to the English language are made in this experiment — only a new mode of spelling and an accommodating new orthography have been introduced here.

Nūspel is based on the pronunciation of Standard American English.

Letters:
There are 37 letters in this proposed orthography, including the variants of certain letters. They are presented below along with their phonetic values.

Aa - /a/

Ææ - /æ/

Bb - /b/

Cc - /tʃ/

Dd - /d/

Ðð -/ð/

Ee - /ε, <

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[Draft] The Story of Squidlededom Timelineby ~Giant-Blue-Anteater

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A preliminary timeline for my book project. It is a spin-off of Nemo Ramjet's All Tomorrows, which focuses on what happens on Earth and beyond when humankind was already long gone. While humans are exploring and settling in and around new solar systems - far away from their long-forgotten home, Earth - 310 million years hence, another intelligence rises: the Squidlede.

The Squidlede, like their primate predecessors, united politically as a species and set out to colonize the Solar System - with the help of the lost technologies, wisdom and other treasures left behind by the humans, and beyond. Though they eventually become divided, they eventually come back together when a rogue group of human colonists try to reconquer the Sol System (and eventually Earth) for exclusive human dominance, owing to a newfound ideology, Terrism.

May be scrapped later.

~SpelKille Jan 11, 2013

Sounds very interesting! I would love to see the evolution of the Squidlede. They are descendants of squids, no?

~Giant-Blue-Anteater Jan 11, 2013

Thanks!

Well, they are actually descendants of cuttlefish. I feel that cuttlefish, should they survive, ultimately have the best chance of producing prominent terrestrial descendants. Of course, a cuttlefish would not directly make a transition to being a land creature, so some primary adaptations would have to evolve first. I envision such future cuttlefish evolving rib-like projections from its cuttlebone, which would eventually encompass its body. This would help support them and protect their internal organs on land.

But because they are cephalopods and cuttlefish resemble squids, it would be simpler to call them squidlede. One need not be in the order Teuthoidea to be given the name "squid" (see the vampire squid, which is actually an octopodiform).

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