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Some new words in Ardinian: bibis (all sorts of) ceat (gather, collect) dhelge (prayer) fehis (head) fevis (principal, head, chief, core, cardinal) huvisakha (grammar) hiovas (good, well) huonos (bad, poor, wicked) pahas (bad, evil, ill; ill-suited, difficult; serious, urgent) paros (best, good; fit...

There's a New Athens /nuː ˈeɪθənz/ in Southern Illinois. Also the Augustine in St. Augustine, FL is pronounced by Floridians as /ˈɔːɡəˌstiːn/ but if you pronounce the saint's name that way to certain learnèd men they may have a chuckle at you. There are some place names in America that are pronounc...

There are some place names in America that are pronounced differently in the place that they refer to, or alternatively: There are some place names in America that are habitually pronounced incorrectly outside of the place that they refer to. Can you think of any other examples? (Other languages ar...

I use it in casual speech "Yeah, I went to his bday party", but if I'm emphasizing the word I will say the full phrase.

I've read that, too, and it's definitely more sound than my speculation. Let's hop in the time machine to find out

And the w-initial roots do have strange behaviour in the paradigms of Arabic with some of them eliding the w in the nonpast stems (e.g. wajad-a "find" > ya-jid-u) while rarely others keep them (e.g. wajil-a "to be scared" > ya-wjal-u). To that end, the imperative form of Arabic ...

For Modern Standard Arabic قال qāla 'to say' قال إن اسمه اسماعيل qāla inna ismahu Ismaʕīl - 'He said his name was Ismail' 'to tell' قلت لك إن البلد خطيرا جدا qultu laka inna'l-balada xatˤīran jiddan - 'I told you that the country is very dangerous' تكلم takallama 'to speak (a language), to talk (wit...

Worked on elevation maps for my conworld, Enumene.

Cranked the numbers and I've been a member of ZBB Extended Universe for 18 years now makes me very happy to reflect on 13 y/o me joining at the time, finding this strange wonderful community, and how I've grown personally and conlangartisticly since then

Verdurian was my first published conlang and there's much I don't like about it. It was thoroughly revised once but it's too late to do it again. (Also there is an in-universe, or in-multiverse, reason for the similarities.) I’ve been doing the nuts and bolts work of learning Verdurian recently ‒ l...

Growth is also productivity, and we need that too, even if we want a socialist rather than a capitalist world. Without continuing to develop renewable energy, "degrowth" either means continuing with fossil fuels and endangering the ecosphere, or letting billions of people die. And unless ...

I replace /T/ with [f] in clusters with /r/ (ie, the three-free merger) more frequently then I expect. Have heard that this is a sound change found among other speakers of English too.

OK, "Semitic" was a stupid example :oops: . Please disregard it. It's not really! My experience with Arabic has taught me that acronyms are very rare. Judging by al-Jazeera programming I watch, even an organization like the UN will be referred to by its English or French acronym while mai...

I've lived in Austin, Texas, since 2011 and the most uses for cash were: drinks at bars and tipping drag queens, paying the bus fare (I havent done that since like 2016 thanks to a smartphone transit app), and laundry machines in apartment complexes. At present, the only use for cash is controlling ...

I've thought for a while that there might be one serious difference between the perception of Germanic languages on the one hand, and some other languages and language groups, such as Chinese, Arabic, or the Romance languages on the other hand, by their own respective speakers. I'm reminded of my e...

So stoked by the idea of an Almea Vicky 3 mod o.0 I don't have Vicky 3--I doubt it would run well on my computer--and Vicky 2 is what I'm familiar with modding anyway, which is why I'd choose it. As long as I set every graphical setting to minimum, and never zoom in on the map, sometimes I can get ...

So stoked by the idea of an Almea Vicky 3 mod o.0 I don't have Vicky 3--I doubt it would run well on my computer--and Vicky 2 is what I'm familiar with modding anyway, which is why I'd choose it. I've only played Vicky 2 once and I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to see how this project goes!!

So stoked by the idea of an Almea Vicky 3 mod o.0

Me, when I say what is supposed to be a plural adjective in Spanish los libros rojos a singular feminine one * los libros roja because that's what you do for adjectives modifying plural non-human nouns in Arabic, ie, al-kutub al-humra . Similarly doubling the definite article in Spanish, too, * el l...

On this note, how much has dialect leveling really affected New York English these days? (I don't know, as I've never been there, and the only person I know who's lived anywhere near there is my sister, who lived for a while out on Long Island.) When I visited in July 2021, the WATER and COFFEE vow...