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by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Word evolution game
Replies: 2687
Views: 275467

Re: Word evolution game

[ɟʎ] > [ɟ.ɟ]

[xø̀ːɟ.ɟé]
偽 | へうりぇう | へーうぐりぇ | 허러 | heûglie
Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Venting thread
Replies: 1923
Views: 15028247

Re: Venting thread

Start date in Luxembourg got delayed to 15 August due to the slugs at the HR not getting me the documents I need to apply for the residence authorization! [insert snarling noises] That's messed up. [joins in the snarling] Don'tcha love HR? [forms a snarling chorus with those already snarling]
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
Replies: 130
Views: 66466

Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0

/b x t x d x c x k x q x / b' t' d' c' k' q' By the way, what are those x 's supposed to signify? I tried looking up the extIPA for those but the page I got on the Wiki rendered much of such things as blocks. I interpret them as simply heterorganic affricates — e.g. [tx] is attested in Navajo. Not ...
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: A scratchpad
Replies: 17
Views: 188

Re: A scratchpad

Modals: Well, this language does not have conventional modals in the way that IE languages tend to. Rather, it has verbs that take a subordinate clause as an argument which it qualifies. Here are some such verbs: want (trans.), sii need (trans.), mag would (intr.), yaa is able to be (intr.), mad is ...
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
Replies: 130
Views: 66466

Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0

Man in Space wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 12:22 am /bx tx dx cx kx qx/ b' t' d' c' k' q'
By the way, what are those x's supposed to signify? I tried looking up the extIPA for those but the page I got on the Wiki rendered much of such things as blocks.
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2454
Views: 1482199

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Znex, are you working on Mercian, the North Germanic language with even more Old English influence? Ʒ'hak giare mik wark pae marcisc gin at is awi tha ettles, ut gin tha wil, ʒe kun skrive ei breve um at braith. :) I haven't done much work on Markish if that is what you mean, but if you like, I cou...
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Word evolution game
Replies: 2687
Views: 275467

Re: Word evolution game

[ew] > [øː]

[xø̀ː.gʎé]
偽 | へうりぇう | へぉれゃえぉ | 허러 | heowlyeo
Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 10:13 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
Replies: 120
Views: 80167

Re: bradrn’s scratchpad

Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 2993
Views: 2850625

Re: Conlang Random Thread

jal wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 8:33 am
Travis B. wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 6:24 amI normally do this.
I do this fcr a small set of verbs such as ta[/t] (the equational copula) and [i[ga (the existential copula).
Makes sense! Thanks.
Forget about ga there - ga is intransitive (I was half-asleep when writing that, hence my many typos in my original post).
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 8:59 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2454
Views: 1482199

Re: Conlang fluency thread

  • tradition, rihta
Taye yoh rihtasefa.
COP-PRES yogh tradition-ADJ.GEN-COMPR
The yogh is more traditional.
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2454
Views: 1482199

Re: Conlang fluency thread

  • appear, naw
  • Latin, latin
  • write, scratch, xaca
Nawizinu yoh xacakakufa latinit.
appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB yogh write-NOM.AGT-ADJ.LIKE-COMPR Latin-GEN
The yogh looks more Latin-script-like.
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 8:28 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
Replies: 130
Views: 66466

Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0

foxcatdog wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 12:28 am *a *e *i *j *k *kʷ *l *m *n *ń *o *p *r *s *ś *t *u *w
/a e i j k kʷ l m n ɲ o p r s ɕ t u ʋ/
by Travis B.
Fri May 17, 2024 6:24 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 2993
Views: 2850625

Re: Conlang Random Thread

Of course, I use ergative and accusative in non-standard fashions to refer to marked arguments of intransitive verbs in a fluid-S arrangement along with antipassive and passive verbs, where agentive S is direct for animates and ergative for inanimates and patientive S is accusative for animates and...
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
Replies: 130
Views: 66466

Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0

⟨a e i o u⟩ /a e i o u/ ⟨aa ee ii oo uu⟩ /aː eː iː oː uː/ ⟨m n⟩ /m n/ ⟨t c k q⟩ /t t͡ʃ k q/ ⟨th ch kh qh⟩ /tʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ qʰ/ ⟨t' c' k' q'⟩ /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ qʼ/ ⟨b d j g⟩ /b d d͡ʒ ɡ/ ⟨b' d'⟩ /ɓ ɗ/ ⟨f s z x h⟩ /f s z x h/ ⟨w l y r⟩ /w l j r/ (I did see this language a couple of days ago, so I’ve tried to avo...
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
Replies: 129
Views: 333971

Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)

. (I also have a tenuous unstressed /u/ in some unstressed C_V such as in mutual that in careful speech is pronounced as a full vowel but readily becomes [w] in everyday speech.) That's not unusual in words with -ual ; in fact, some speakers can have no /w/ at all, making -ual and -ial homophones. ...
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Word evolution game
Replies: 2687
Views: 275467

Re: Word evolution game

Schwa epenthesis after final consonants. (Note that the schwa takes the tone of the preceding vowel.)

[çỳ.wǿɺʲə́]
偽り | つわり | hyuweolh
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious"
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 455
Views: 74928

Re: War in the Middle East, again

This reminds me of someone I know who considers themselves a feminist -- she dunks on Muslims to no end because of this kind of thing (in addition to essentially believing in collective responsibility, where all Muslims are responsible for what some Muslims do (and all men are responsible for what ...
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 455
Views: 74928

Re: War in the Middle East, again

Well it's from a leftist, so they're not using it as a brainless offhand for "progressive thing I don't like" The brainless use is so common I'm afraid using either term about instantly loses my attention :) Same here. ...about America (and Israel) using progressive politics based on iden...
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 455
Views: 74928

Re: War in the Middle East, again

Frankly, I can't decide if this goes in here or the us politics thread (because both are relevant), but I saw this video by the Kavernacle about the rise of "woke fascism" or the use of progressive identity politics in service of illiberal policies. I'm very dubious of the 'woke' and 'ide...
by Travis B.
Thu May 16, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 455
Views: 74928

Re: War in the Middle East, again

Well it should be remembered that just because someone is opposed to teh Empire does not mean they are good or that they are even better than Amerika. Take the case of China, as has been mentioned repeatedly on here. If any country replaces the US as hegemon in the foreseeable feature it will be Ch...