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by Travis B.
Thu May 30, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Replies: 43
Views: 832

Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions

And anyways, anyone who writes a system that won't accept arbitrary UTF-8 ought to be ashamed of themselves.
by Travis B.
Thu May 30, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Replies: 43
Views: 832

Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions

zompist wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 4:44 pm A modern system should easily handle names like Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; --
That's our Bobby Tables!
by Travis B.
Thu May 30, 2024 1:14 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
Replies: 1448
Views: 449408

Re: United States Politics Thread 46

Anyone who thinks the Democrats are "elitist" is regurgitating Republican propaganda, if perhaps second-hand. Really? You don't understand how the likes of: Bill "NAFTA" Clinton Barack "Go to school!" Obama Hillary "$12 is enough" Clinton Joe "Stop strik...
by Travis B.
Thu May 30, 2024 9:50 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
Replies: 1448
Views: 449408

Re: United States Politics Thread 46

I personally am a socialist, and really only vote Democrat because due to how our electoral system works, any non-vote for the Democrats equals a vote for the Republicans, who are infinitely worse as we all know. But at the same time, criticizing the Democrats without criticizing the Republicans sou...
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Replies: 961
Views: 1086290

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel

The thing about true Wanderwörter is they are dead obvious -- words traveling between many unrelated and loosely related languages with gradual changes over space that do not obey typical sound changes within language groups as if they were inherited. I am sure if there were so many Wanderwörter peo...
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Replies: 961
Views: 1086290

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel

My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform. I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves. :( And yet, you’re yet to give us any actual reasons why you think this… OK, I owe you an explanation. From my own resea...
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Travis B. wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 1:03 pm gaxaguyeya
Tadiziye /ɣaχaɣujɛja/ rixaa laxadaa
COP-DAT-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES /ɣaχaɣujɛja/ difficult say-ACTION
/ɣaχaɣujɛja/ is a mouthful.
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
Replies: 1448
Views: 449408

Re: United States Politics Thread 46

The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 1:16 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Replies: 961
Views: 1086290

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel

But I have the impression that Talksubilos hasn't grasped that the inconvenience of the fact is an important facet of the semantics of afraid . But then I am not a native English speaker and may be wrong ;) What I get out of Talskubilos's use of the word afraid is that they are insisting that they ...
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

  • make, create, khayta
Ximame ha aariye ha khaytameya ibba gaxaguyeya /ay/ ay /aw/.
think-AGT.1.S-PRES COMP should-PRES COMP create-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN words exist-COM-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN /ay/ or /aw/.
I think I should make more words with /ay/ or /aw/.
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
Replies: 1448
Views: 449408

Re: United States Politics Thread 46

The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") is frankly either a fool or...
by Travis B.
Wed May 29, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 3051
Views: 2865568

Re: Conlang Random Thread

What I have done with Fad'ami is first to give each morpheme a number of different forms depending on what precedes it phonetically, and secondly to primarily put things like geminates, aspirated consonants, and ejectives in roots, and avoid them in affixes (there are a couple notable ejectives in a...
by Travis B.
Tue May 28, 2024 4:16 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: Resources Thread
Replies: 99
Views: 70751

Re: Resources Thread

Um, French verbal clitics are already morphemes, and always have been…! Really? I thought they were still clitics. So what are some papers that discuss this aspect of French morphology? Clitics are morphemes… I’m wondering if you perhaps mean ‘affixes’? In response to which I submit that ‘clitic’ a...
by Travis B.
Tue May 28, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

jal wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 5:23 am
Travis B. wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 10:11 pm
Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 9:39 pm[í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì]
Your posts look hard to write.
Dem fo specal luk ahcip fi tok.
They especially look difficult to speak.
  • agree with (trans.), q'atti
Q'attimena
agree-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.2.S
Agreed.
by Travis B.
Sun May 26, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

  • vary (intr.), caat'e
  • many (coll.), niina
Ligimat'a ha gadi fad'a jafanit niina saxaat caat'ejatlaa.
know-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV-NEG exist-DAT language Japan-GEN many sounds-GEN vary-ADJ.PAT-GEN-P
I did not know Japanese had so many allophones.
by Travis B.
Sun May 26, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

Ximaajafaabin zon man.
think-ADJ.PAT-COMPARE-RES-ABL-AGT.2.S DIST.S.INAN 3.S-ACC
You have put more thought in that than me.
by Travis B.
Sun May 26, 2024 3:36 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Happy things thread!
Replies: 1221
Views: 718944

Re: Happy things thread!

doctor shark wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 2:40 pm This finally went online! (Took long enough...)
Congrats!
by Travis B.
Sat May 25, 2024 11:48 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

alphabet, alfabet letter, character, sign, symbol, khaafu Bakizinuya fad'amii aana khaafutam alfabetit ingalisit taguyeyat'a ⟨p⟩ ay ⟨v⟩. use-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB-PAT.3.P.INAN language-POSS.1.P-ERG all letter-GEN-P alphabet-GEN English-GEN COP-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN-NEG ⟨p⟩ or ⟨v⟩. Fad'ami uses ...
by Travis B.
Sat May 25, 2024 11:01 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

  • Japan, jafan
  • very, strongly, deeply, soole
Nawiziye fad'anaa fad'a jafanit wiib'aja soole.
appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES language-POSS.2.S-ERG language Japan-GEN mutate-ADJ.PAT very
Your language looks like a deeply mutated Japonic language.
by Travis B.
Sat May 25, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang fluency thread
Replies: 2502
Views: 1487068

Re: Conlang fluency thread

之ろ良き辞を名する゙辞縄有り゙ 「いろ𛀁ぅきつゐ𛀁をなする゙きつゐ𛀁にょふあり゙」 Ilo yeoki tiyônasuru tienyô ari. [í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì] proximal.LOCATIVE good.PREDICATIVE word.ACCUSATIVE.make.ADNOMINAL word.rope(=thread) copula.PREDICATIVE "This is a good word-making thread.&q...