Verse:Hmøøh/Talma

Etalocin (/ɛ'tæləsɪn/ eh-tal-ə-sin; Clofabosin: etalocin /'etalokin/, from Lăcoaf Eta + Clofabosin locin 'land'; Eevo: Etá /ʔɛˈtʰa/) is a continent of the conplanet Tricin.

History

Birth control

Birth control from phytoestrogens

Geography and climate

Countries

• Camalastèabhana
• Tumaca
• Sgewla
• Anøvr
• Windermereland
• Nuria (Nūrē)
• Benocia
• Phormatin
• Qaaroshterim
• Clofabolocin
• Dodellia
• Wakani

Languages

The following language families are represented in Etalocin:

Linguistic areas:

• Talma (head-initial, more analytic)
  • Nurian area
    • Aspiration and gemination
    • Small vowel system with palatalization
    • More synthetic
  • Continental Talman Linguistic Area
    • Split-ergativity
    • l vocalizes into a uvular or pharyngealized resonant
    • Complex clusters
    • Large vowel system
    • VSO order
    • Head-marking in possessive NPs, with construct state or 3rd person possessive marking
    • Grammatical mutation
• Northeastern Etalocin
  • Head-initial
  • Polysynthesis
• CW-Complex (Eastern Etalocin)
  • IE, Uralic or "Altaic" aesthetic
  • Head-final/"Altaic" grammar

Modern Talman languages

• Talmic
  • Eevo
  • Bhadhagha
  • Tumaca
  • Benocian
  • Nurian
• Modern Lăcoaf
• Naquic
  • Adutsib / Sfətsiv
  • Humpback Whelsh
• Clofabic
  • Phormatolidin
  • Chthryxolidin
• Camalic

Central Etalocian languages

• Tsrovesh
• Modern Tamil
• Adutsib topolects

CW-topia languages

• Clofabic
  • Clofabosin
• Talmic
  • Roshterian (outlier)
  • Mategian
• Veraic
  • Verapamil
  • Diltiazem
• Dodellian
• Belen
• Adutsib topolects

Society

Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a Crapsaccharine World. Etalocin boasts a robust tradition of intellectual activity, especially in mathematics and music. However, Etalocian society is a highly stratified meritocracy, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes.

The social cost of nonconformity (especially for men) was quite severe. Crimes were punished harshly. Legally, the most common punishments were exile, imprisonment and forced labor but often the criminals were tortured, castrated, or executed, in addition to public shaming.

Polygamy was legally recognized in Etalocin cultures, though many people are monogamous.

Pre-modern vulgar culture

The plebs were largely semi-literate but otherwise uneducated and were forced to do menial labor and/or live in unsanitary places. Non-elite military-age men were often drafted into wars.

The common people had plays, and later novels, as forms of entertainment.

Modern

The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.

Contemporary social issues include:

• effective altruism
• etc.

Agile legislation is considered a design ideal to strive for in Etalocian democracies.

There is no legal concept of marriage in modern Etalocian societies; marriage is essentially a "religious" concept to be negotiated by individuals.

Education

Traditional education

Elite education

Elite boys were first educated in either a "boarding school" which taught a curriculum of rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, fine arts, and science, or a military academy. By age 15 they were expected to enter into university study (or military service) in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. To enter specialization one was required to pass the entrance exam administered by a university. If one could not enter specialist training he was effectively banished from elite society. Those who passed the "boarding school" curriculum but failed to specialize usually worked as "managers", low-level officials or schoolteachers. One or more requirements could be waived for a child of exceptional ability in one area.

Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists.

Modern education

The following applies broadly to Etalocin as well as societies founded by Etalocian settlers, such as Fyxám.

Primary and secondary education

Teaching basic literacy, arithmetic and finance, and inculcation of liberal values (which is a part of how Ngronaism is interpreted today), are considered the most important function of public education.

Since education in higher levels is much more fragmented and stratified, primary school curriculum is standardized and efforts are made to cultivate a sense of empathy towards people of other backgrounds in primary school. (A child may test out of the literacy and math requirements.) The civic religion is taught with lessons about history, literature, and philosophy.

Secondary school is less determined. There are topics such as sex education and more Ngronaism lessons which are mandatory (in time for adolescence), but secondary schools are otherwise free to develop their own curricula.

Some public secondary schools offer more specialized curricula in the sciences, arts or the humanities, geared towards students who wish to enter universities (see below). For illustration, this is a typical modern Etalocian science school math curriculum:

• Geometry, equations and functions
• Calculus (one-variable and multivariable)
• Ordinary differential equations
• Probability and statistics; combinatorics
• Linear algebra.

Lastly, traditional-style private boarding schools still exist.

Higher education

Apprenticeships and trade schools

Apprenticeship, which is highly decentralized, attempts to teach skills directly relevant to a career path that a person wishes to enter; most of the time it leads directly to internships or jobs. Trade schools attempt to scale up this apprenticeship process, and have historical origins in apprenticeships.

Apprenticeships include:

• training for most jobs in the sciences (in Tricin, this notion includes psychology and economics) such as coding, lab technician, ...
• training for musicians
• training for pink collar jobs such as nursing/social work/therapy/sex work.
• teacher schools, for primary and secondary school teachers

Professional schools

Medical, law, dentistry, pharmacy, psychiatry, engineering schools.

Universities

Universities are considered appropriate only for those who aim to eventually enter research or teaching in higher education, or those who simply wish to undertake a particularly intense study of a subject. Only 5% (fT 2453) of Anøvrians and 5.3% (fT 2456) of Fyxámians are university students or graduates. Enrollment requires an entrance exam.

Notably, students in universities customarily address professors using the semi-formal pronoun swad, as professors do to their students.

For illustration, this is a typical curriculum for a modern (~fT 2460) undergraduate pure math student:

1st year

• Writing proofs
• Combinatorics
• Elementary number theory
• Probability
• Formal linear algebra

2nd year

• Abstract algebra (Groups, rings, modules, fields, Galois theory)
• Real analysis (Axiomatic calculus)
• Point-set topology
• PDEs
• Complex analysis

3rd year

• Real analysis (Lebesgue measure and integration)
• Functional analysis
• Differential geometry
• Algebraic topology
• Commutative algebra

4th year

• Advanced number theory
• Category theory
• Algebraic geometry
• A capstone course, involving independent study of a topic (if the student wishes to graduate in their 4th year, instead of continuing into graduate studies)

Art

Music

Main article: Verse:Tricin/Etalocin/Music

Fashion

1300dd-1400dd: Men wore more "outdoors" outfit than women. [I don't know what an outdoor outfit would look like tho, and how all this shd interact with vegetarianism]

Vegetarian fashion

how insulate with no leather

• wool
• down feathers
  • heavy seabird nesting sites that provide down, fertilizer, later gunpowder ingredients (IIRC)
• ymnahd oil
• basically a lot of "hacks"

Technology

Modern Trician technology is more advanced than ours.

Cuisine

Vegetarian cuisine has been backed by various ethical philosophies that prohibit either killing or inflicting suffering on animals. Some form of vegetarianism is common among Etalocians; however, vegetarians are less common among lower classes.

Using umami ingredients such as seaweeds and mushrooms, and herbs and spices is common to make up for the lack of meat.

Religion and civic religion

Mainstream

Main article: Verse:Tricin/Ngronaism

Aduhud

The Aduhud have their own distinctive religious tradition.

• Maybe it's based on the a system of "karma points" - might be too shady for a religion
• Marriage is officially recognized in it.

Notable figures

List needs more Lăcoafians, Benocians, Phormatians, Chthryxians, ...

• pseudo-Rocēda - group of ancient Talman mathematicians, authors of the Brøøhad Manuscript which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra
• Θīcot Atiȝadaedā - Adutsib astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion
• Jissarāhim = Lăcoaf geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation
• sduydilət ayqsadbi (Snoeδiret Aecsarbē) - Thensarian mathematician, who first approximated π to 96 base-12 places (~ 104 decimal places)
• Toφaomerom - ancient Clofabic orator
• Tsăhoŋ-Tămdi - composer, physicist and mathematician who wrote Elements of Harmony, which has the first known mention of harmonic series; the just ratios generated by a given set of primes
• Rith-Mărotł - Lăcoaf statesman and political theorist
• Fosen fat-Tazrir - Lăcoaf chemist, physicist
• ʔAmmuħ far-Rothâbh - Lăcoaf geometer, physicist and engineer

After two centuries of the Talman Dark Age brought about by a series of natural disasters and plagues...

• Yăchef Ătsa - Lăcoaf physician who verified germ theory of disease
• Răngey Bănof - Lăcoaf physicist and mathematician who invented calculus
• Early Lăcoaf composers (responsible for staff directions in Lăcoaf)
• Yamphotsaphidamchuerai Ativan - Clofabian lexicographer and novelist [Ativan even sounds somewhat Sanskrit (like ati-vara -- could mean 'lots of blessings'/'very blessed')]
• Embisoom Grwid - Eevo-speaking poet
• Arformoterol Ziagen - Clofabian mathematician and composer
• Ergosterol Aleve ♀ - Clofabian nurse, pioneered modern nursing
• Aodhàn Càdlàg - Bhadhagha mathematician (worked on real and functional analysis)
• Tăbich Vaseng - Lăcoaf mathematician who worked on complex analysis
• Sdyrros Salmeter - Anøvrian inventor
• Jakkiūrą Uffanasseh - Nurian economist
• Segin Þwhgad - Anøvrian music theorist and composer; formalized regular temperaments
• Sduþel Alcve - Sgewlan writer
• Axtxo Byjac - Fyxámian mathematician
• Ilsa Josive - Anøvrian geometer
• Sduþel Bolltind - Sgewlan linguist, discovered Roshterian
• Tsyntve Gvitxýða - Adetsib-Anøvrian linguist, discovered Sjowaazheñ
• Rewhd Gneevon - writer