It was a recent Translation of the Day at Conworkshop.com that inspired me to examine how signatures work in Rireinu, and Rireinutire. I already knew that you sign things with both your thumbprint and your name, but it turns out I didn't have the vocabulary for that, after fifteen years of worldbuilding. So, time to… Continue reading “You don’t have to do this.” “But I do, I signed a contract!”
Tag: culture
Lexember 31 (2025)
I'll drink to that! Today's ConWorkShop theme is A toast to… Among my people, temperance is a strong and proud tradition. It is the custom never to drink alcohol, except on the occasion of a great celebration. And it is always an occasion of a great celebration when you have some alcohol. This is probably… Continue reading Lexember 31 (2025)
Lexember 27 (2025)
Brace yourself for a storm of criticism. Today's ConWorkShop theme is Literature. Contemporary literature is always of much worse quality than the revered classics of yesteryear. This could not possibly be the result of successive generations of readers and critics having enshrined just a few masterpieces from a vast production of varying quality and consigning… Continue reading Lexember 27 (2025)
Lexember 21 (2025)
Let me look that up for you! Today's ConWorkShop theme is Things you’ve Googled this week. The Rireinukave of course use their own search engines (toraneko) to look up things in their own Worldnet (Mutivaka). But I recently looked up things to do with Chaturmasya, the Rains Retreat of the Indian Subcontinent on Earth. Monsoon… Continue reading Lexember 21 (2025)
Lexember 12 (2025)
It seems that ConWorkShop have jumped the gun slightly, since today's theme is Midwinter words. Winter Solstice is New Year's Day on Rireinu, and that means housecleaning, so as to have an auspicious beginning for the new year. As the sun sets on New Year's Eve, the people gather around a community bonfire and everyone… Continue reading Lexember 12 (2025)
Lexember 11 (2025)
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. But what if your culture doesn't do T-shirts? Or any clothes, really. How then do you show off where you have been (or what you have done)? Why, just buy one of those enamel or plastic pins from that souvenir vendor over there and stick it on your… Continue reading Lexember 11 (2025)
Beyond this point you may encounter mature themes
Much of this website is dedicated to the planet Rireinu, its nature, peoples, and cultures. Obviously this is likely to include visual content. As the native sapients of Rireinu are almost, but not quite, entirely indistinguishable from Humans, we are constrained to consider any depictions of such in light of relevant taboos pertaining to the… Continue reading Beyond this point you may encounter mature themes
Kinship in Rireinutire
The basic kinship terms of Rireinutire presented in convenient chart form. To a viewer used to Human cultures this chart may seem slightly odd due to Rireinukave biology. For the convenience of those of us whose Rireinutire may be a little rusty this version of the chart features transliterations of the text in Human script… Continue reading Kinship in Rireinutire
Lexember 28 (2024)
The angry rat-tat-tat of noisy jackhammers would distract anybody from attending to today's theme from ConWorkShop, which is Noisy things. However, I did manage to get in some worldbuilding in discussing the categories that singing voices are classified into in Rireinu classical music. In that connection I also discovered I didn't have a word for… Continue reading Lexember 28 (2024)
Lexember 12 (2024)
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember the ConWorkShop theme for today, which is Death and the afterlife. The Rireinukave are not terribly keen on death because they expect they will have to face a reckoning of their deeds and misdeeds when Grandmother Death fetches them before the court of Kanavita, the Judge… Continue reading Lexember 12 (2024)
Flowering Fields 