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I was six for the 1999 eclipse (by calculation, not memory). I don't remember the eclipse itself, despite probably witnessing it, but I do remember everyone talking about it and the special eclipse glasses.

Yup, this was a big problem for me for ages (now it's more of a little problem). Had so many phonology and grammar ideas but couldn't make the two marry up with morphology that felt right. Somehow I've learned to moderate, by working so much on Leima, which deliberately has a somewhat unnaturalistic...

Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:12 pm Yang ik pumuhrr?
what TOP PERF.INTR-change
"What's up?"

Eshi ne, suot!
For me, not much!

Goron nesheku laman - nehefino tul?
The spelling is unusual - what are the sounds?

Imralu wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:28 pm Dohi gož aa he pi kayak aaŋ.
do-hi gož aa | he pi kayak aa=ŋ
PST-CONT cogitate DEF.R2 | JUSS merely use.magic DEF.R2=1+2
I was thinking we'd just use magic.

Nonen irnim gen gumen oahmihanwaha?

Non-en

EXP-2s

irnim

think

gen

Q

gum-en

INST-2s

oahmih-anwa-ha

magic-type-what

What kind of magic are you thinking about using?

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:21 am Not "1 pint, 1 quart, 2 quarts, 3 quarts"? Interesting.

Heard of quarts but never used them - don't think I've ever seen anything measured in quarts in the UK.

Ooh, very interesting! I don’t think I’ve seen a brushed conscript before. Fantastical scripts uses brush-pens for many of her designs, if that counts. I'm sure I must have seen others in the past too. (But surely the historical Tangut script is quite bizarre enough?) Oh definitely! But it was the ...

…because I submitted my Master’s thesis a month ago, and already I’m feeling that urge again to lecture people on a topic in excruciating detail. Excellent :D Most of my early conlanging work was script creation too. Although, I've never posted much of it to the board, because I assumed our crowd w...

Really? Do you not have gallon jugs of milk in the UK? Like this: https://pics.walgreens.com/prodimg/418563/450.jpg Our milk comes in pints! At the supermarket, there are plastic bottles of 1, 2, 4 and 6 pints. And the glass bottles the milkman delivers are 1 pint too. Bear in mind imperial pints a...

Imralu wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:33 am Twiyadziqaš aaž.
t<<w>iy>+a+dz+i-qaš aa=ž
0.5x8<<PRF>INCEP>+0.5x32+0.5x32+0.5x8-year DEF.R2=1s
I've turned 40 years old.

sembou yal keo kasaeru
sə-emb-ou yal keo k-a-sae-ru
event-give.birth:PASS-GER day joy have-ACT-OPT-2.SUB
Happy birthday!

I use AdBlock - I haven't had any message from YT telling me to disable it, but these days I'm getting the yellow bar, and sometimes a half-second of audio before it just turns black - then it takes a while before the actual video loads. I'm guessing adblock is letting the ad play but blocking the a...

My attempt with Yorkish. The kalde wintre is nere, ei sneestorm skal kom. /θə kʰɔult wɪntr is niər | ə ˈsnistɔrm skə kʰɔm/ Kom i me warme hous, me win. Welkom! Kom here, syng o dans, et o drink. Thet ʒ'ha thenkt out. /kʰɔm i mə warm hous mə wɪn | ˈwɛlkʰɔm kʰɔm hiər sɪŋk ɔ dans ɛt ɔ trɪŋk | θɛt hja ...

masako wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:05 am https://kopikon.com/

So, I am absolutely elated to say that I had a blast at Georgetown Univ. presenting during the first ever Kopikon.

Wow, I hadn't heard of this before!! This means there's now more than one conlang conference running, neat! I'll have to check out the recording

Imralu wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:23 am Kei tēhea tāone koe e noho ana?
Which city do you live in?

Ko tāu mahi te whakaako i te reo Ingarihi?
Are you teaching English for work?

อ่ยูที่เหมือนเชียงใหม่น่ะ
I'm in Chiang Mai

ไม่ใช่! มีวีซ่าED ดังนั้นแค่เรียมได้
No, I have the ED visa (education), so I can just study

Inahea koe i tīmata ai ki te ako i te reo Tairana. When did you start learning Thai? สามเดือมที่แล้ว Three months ago ย้ายนาเมืองไทยพฤษภาคม I moved to Thailand in May แต่ว่าก่อนมารู้นิดหน่อยแล้ว เพราะว่าเรียมสี่ปีที่แล้ว Although I knew a little bit before I came, because I studied four years ago

Imralu wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:57 pm Kāore he tangata e pīrangi ana ki te whakapai i āna reo e akoria ana?
Doesn't anyone want to practice the languages they are learning?

ก่อนตอมที้ ยังไม่เรียนภาษาครับ
Before now, I wasn't learning a language

เราฝึกได้ครับ
We can practice

My grandparents chose what they wanted to be called, and as far as I know that's normal for the UK. So I have a maternal Nana and Grandpa, and a paternal Gran and Grandad. Incidentally, my Gran is my dad's stepmum, and we refer to his mother (who passed away before I was born) as Grandma. Where I gr...

A handout is a very informal way to package a small text, often stapled together. (But a company could use the term for something fancier.) Oh, for me a handout is distributed to a group of people in some kind of teaching or training session, containing some version of the information being present...

I'd call these either brochures or pamphlets: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/619553524258308098/1146541898232758272/GetAttachmentThumbnail.png Ah... are those a single sheet of paper? I'd call that a leaflet Otherwise, I'm with the general consensus here on brochure vs pamphlet vs tract A...

Dain heimerde weih ugeo yoelman geram wan wedain alde yoelgi Dain heimer-de weih ugeo yoel-man ge-ram wan we-dain alde yoel-gi This week started with two days of straight rain, but it's become sunnier since then Gwež aaž he tšug ihibbitsan wiŋ ihibban žan anniyuŋ. gwež aa=ž he tšug ihii=b<its>an wi...

I have a soft spot for funky consonant clusters, so I love the aesthetic of Eŋes! A whole NP can also be used as subject. Note that if it’s definite (and singular, but more on that later), the formative to- must be inserted before the verb: Looking forward to when you explain why this is/isn't a dit...