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- Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
a conlang is not a communication system, for me it's more an experiment in philosophy of language... But is what you're doing a conlang at all? Or is it just you typing random character sequences? I don't think xxx is just keysmashing. If you look at his postings in the conlang fluency thread, thou...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: cursed natlang features
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2755
Re: cursed natlang features
Actually very true, you got me there.Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:04 pm“At this rate, I will be run out of business in a matter of weeks!”
“He said I will be run out of town if word gets out.”
“I will be run ragged by the end of this.”
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: cursed natlang features
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2755
Re: cursed natlang features
granted its not productive *i will be runned is incorrect That's because runned is incorrect, of course? "I will be run" sounds a bit strange if it's a person saying it, but "the program will be run" is perfectly fine. "I will be walked" and "I am walked" are...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: cursed natlang features
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2755
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1481
- Views: 502800
Re: English questions
Does anyone know anything about the variant /æt/ of that ? I have it and I have heard my daughter use it. And it clearly is not a variant of it to me; it feels like an allomorph of that rather than an independent word. I’m not quite sure what you mean by this question… surely /ðæt/ is the standard ...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lemobrogian - the language of the Land of Eternal Spring.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7450
Re: Lemobrogian - the language of the Land of Eternal Spring.
I know, that's because I'm working with quite the clunky Wikipedia clone. Here's the finished (more or less, it's still a very basic overview of the language) page: https://iiwiki.us/wiki/Lemobrogian_language By "the words of the gloss don't actually seem to line up with the Lemobrogian",...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
You could instead model the word off of German Jahrhundert 'century' and its cognates, including rare English yearhundred, and call your ten-day weeks daytens (probably pronounced more like Dayton(, Ohio) than like uncompounded day ten). Otherwise I'd also endorse tennight.
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 1069
- Views: 521696
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
/p t tʲ tʃ k/ p t ť c k (invariable) /ɸ ɬ s sʲ ʃ x/ f j s š x h /w l ɾ j/ w l r y /m n nʲ ɲ/ m n ň g /i y u e ø o a/ i ü u e ö o a All diphthongs (and apparent long vowels) are represented with vowel letter sequences ( aa ai ia etc); hiatus, where it occurs, is marked with ʼ . /kola uosxa asi naasi ...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 366
- Views: 365163
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 430
- Views: 1035482
Re: What do you call ...
Tract to my reckoning has a broader meaning than that: full-sized books, posts online and webpages, and speeches could all be called tracts if they're sufficiently opinionated. The line between tract and rant is generally that rants are off-the-cuff and informal while tracts are in some way prepare...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 430
- Views: 1035482
Re: What do you call ...
Not a native speaker, so just to be sure - for me, brochure is independent of content, while pamphlet implies some kind of ideological (religious, political) content, or at least some kind of opinion-piece / rant. Or am I just carrying that implication over from German? I'd say yes to the latter. B...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I think its a nice idea whats described. Granted, it sounds to me like when NativLang described how a tenseless Mayan language tells how a sequence of events occurred. Oh? (I haven't seen this video.) my bad; meant to provide a link in my prior post; sorry. https://youtu.be/ttq0S4cuIHA That's a goo...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Oh? (I haven't seen this video.)
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I've had an idea for a language's tense system to be torn to shreds by its speakers' unusual cultural perception of time, with the metaphor TIME IS AGE: older things and people are considered to be further into the future than their younger counterparts, as if everything shares a single timeline tha...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3257
- Views: 2992700
Re: Conlang Random Thread
An idea for a conlang numeral system (higher numbers) based on East Asian languages and traditional European year counting. hundred=100 ten hundred=1,000 myriad= 10,000 ten myriads= 100,000 hundred myriads= 1,000,000 ten hundred myriads= 10,000,000 myriad myriad=byriad= 100,000,000 ten byriad=1,000...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 846
- Views: 425481
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia all use shillings as their main currency like this in real life, and all legally divided into cents (though inflation has made it so cents are no longer used in practice). Uganda did the same until 2013, when it legally abolished cents.
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1858
- Views: 4990412
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 720
- Views: 576551
Re: Confusing headlines
I tend to wrap the sentences-as-modifiers in quotes, eg: "you can only fit it on a truck"-sized desk vs "you can disassemble it and stuff it into a Prius"-sized desk. Because yeah, I agree that putting hyphens between every word is annoying to type and annoying to read.
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:44 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1481
- Views: 502800
Re: English questions
I found this on Mastodon: https://universeodon.com/@LadyDragonfly/110651349255529296 Midwest Guide to Yes and No Yeah = yes No = no Yeah, no = no No yeah, yeah = yes Yeah, no yeah! = very yes No, yeah no = very no Welp = yes My question is, how accurate is that? That is pretty accurate. Note that a...
- Fri May 19, 2023 3:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2671
- Views: 1557617
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Nràupam kmôims palm céaksicop.
/ŋɾáùpam kmúíms paɾm ʃìáksiʃup/
[ˈŋɾæu̯˦˨pɐm km̥oi̯mz˥ pɐlm ˈʃɛɑ̯˨˥ksɪʃop]
I'm sorry about your new dog.
/ŋɾáùpam kmúíms paɾm ʃìáksiʃup/
[ˈŋɾæu̯˦˨pɐm km̥oi̯mz˥ pɐlm ˈʃɛɑ̯˨˥ksɪʃop]
- nràup-
- dog-
- am
- THM
- kmòi-
- new-
- ^ms
- REL.THM
- palm
- 2SG.POS.THM
- céaksi-
- sad-
- co-
- 1SG.SUB-
- p
- 2SG.OBJ
I'm sorry about your new dog.