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Gadlia õmîr ies divisa in terêr partêr ['ga.ᵈlia õː.miːr jes di'vi.za in tereːr parteːr,] Reduction of mid and open vowels in unstressed syllables Fortition of nasals after nasal vowels to voiced stops v > β Gadliə õbîr iəs divisa in tərêr partêr ['ga.ᵈliə 'õː.biːr jəs di'βi.zə in tə'reːr 'parteːr]

Last night I dreamed that I got a message from Janko desperately asking for numbers from my conlang.

My band has released its first album! It contains six instrumental pieces in a style somewhere between post-rock, post-metal, progressive, and alternative. Maybe some of you might like our music... (I definitely do, but I'm of course biased ;) ) I enjoyed this album! Will probably listen again some...

Don't have much to comment other than I like it!

Has anyone experienced similar while learning a tonal language? Or have tips to learn vocabulary as distinct words WITH the tones? Should I continue learning phrases/sentences the way I have, as almost mini-songs? I had the exact same experience learning Thai. Phrases even of two words were much ea...

I came across the interesting concept of 'bijective decimals' today. They're a positional number notation that doesn't use zero; instead, the digits have the values one to ten. Thus, if we use 'A' for the digit 'ten', and write the most significant digit on the left, twenty would be written '1A' an...

redid how the telephone system works in my concountry, for some reason?? IMO this is good enough for a full post, e.g. in a thread about Transemilia (which I'd be interested to read more about btw). I might be missing some basic understanding of how telephone networks work, but how does the network...

redid how the telephone system works in my concountry, for some reason?? IMO this is good enough for a full post, e.g. in a thread about Transemilia (which I'd be interested to read more about btw). I might be missing some basic understanding of how telephone networks work, but how does the network...

Yada dum oeno welmau nuhem nudum anyoina rug ramman! HAB-1s eat bread meat RF-REL.ID ABST-eat noon LOC day-all I have a ham sandwich for lunch everyday! Oem elne yada iglo emig mougugyeg moumehha naad weo weador girmidoineu. but often HAB-1s add cheese or-pickle or-leaf so.that COND INC-PROP-plt.sg...

Wainiga leo araug houhai rugde yoer geollim edanhun.
We haven't conversed on this thread in nearly two months.

Gen dig mahyaha moudumha rug gaude?
What have you cooked or eaten recently?

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:59 am In Sweden we eat semla on Fat Tuesday.

I'd never heard of semla before - they look delicious!

Making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is one of my favourite things of the year.

This was interesting! Have you seen Worldbuilding Notes on YouTube? Yes, it's one of my favourite channels! Although I have a note of the initial idea and the name Ohwiste from 2016, her video on the topic definitely served to suggest the vessel-dwelling between bodily lives. Now, we know how the s...

The mood for a bit of conworlding took me a little while back, here's what came of that. I'm enjoying my attempt to present the Ohwiste's own understanding of themselves without drawing lines between belief and truth. The Ohwiste The Ohwiste are a small society of reincarnating people (they are huma...

Which sounds longer to you: “half an hour” or “thirty minutes”? For me they feel the same. Relatedly, how do you all tend to quote the time of day? Do you lean towards constructions like 'x past y' and 'x to y' or number-quoting like 'xx:yy'? E.g. is 5:10 "ten past five" or "five ten...

Here's the odd number list from me: 21. ETRIK trick 22. SEKRIC screech 23. EPLOT plot 24. PELAGKE plank 25. ESTEREGFE strength 26. KERASTE crosses 27. ULTU urdu 28. TEWOF dwarf 29. ESTERANTE strand 30. MURESYA moreish 31. ESPERUS spruce 32. KERESNAYALSEK 33. PAREFE barth?? 34. EKRAFTE craft 35. SERE...

(I was going to vent a bit about health insurance... but then I thought, not in front of the Americans .) The thread is supposed to be all inclusive... As grateful as I am for the NHS, it's certainly not perfect! I think I'd dare to grumble about it here if I had a complaint. But I share your senti...

I really had to bend my brain around these to get any answers, and pretend to be an American English speaker 1. SETRANTE - strand 2. TERIK - trick 3. URETU - Urdu 4. SEPRUS - cyprus 5. EPLAGKE - plank 6. KERAFTE - craft 7. ESKERUTRAIWE - screwdriver 8. MULSIYA - music?? 9. SETREGFE - strength 10. EK...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:06 pm Now I'm not sure I understand what this is supposed to mean.

It refers to the classic image macro meme

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:09 pm (Edit: I'm also used to seeing it spelled caduceus and hadn't seen the caduseus spelling before.)

Oh that's my bad, I misspelled it. I also know it only as caduceus.

It just occurred to me that /ˈkadusejəs/ is probably not the correct way to pronounce caduceus in English... Turns out it's /kəˈdjuːʃəs/ or /kəˈdjuːsiəs/. With my British accent, that's [kəˈdʒuːʃəs] which to me feels like a mouthful of potatoes!

(EDIT: correct spelling is caduceus, doh)