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- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1633
Re: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
I was six for the 1999 eclipse (by calculation, not memory). I don't remember the eclipse itself, despite probably witnessing it, but I do remember everyone talking about it and the special eclipse glasses.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The problem of "finding the right word"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2923
Re: The problem of "finding the right word"?
Yup, this was a big problem for me for ages (now it's more of a little problem). Had so many phonology and grammar ideas but couldn't make the two marry up with morphology that felt right. Somehow I've learned to moderate, by working so much on Leima, which deliberately has a somewhat unnaturalistic...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2425
- Views: 1480501
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2425
- Views: 1480501
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Nonen irnim gen gumen oahmihanwaha?
- Non-en
- EXP-2s
- irnim
- think
- gen
- Q
- gum-en
- INST-2s
- oahmih-anwa-ha
- magic-type-what
What kind of magic are you thinking about using?
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14374
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: A guide to writing systems
- Replies: 138
- Views: 288512
Re: A guide to writing systems
Ooh, very interesting! I don’t think I’ve seen a brushed conscript before. Fantastical scripts uses brush-pens for many of her designs, if that counts. I'm sure I must have seen others in the past too. (But surely the historical Tangut script is quite bizarre enough?) Oh definitely! But it was the ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:19 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: A guide to writing systems
- Replies: 138
- Views: 288512
Re: A guide to writing systems
…because I submitted my Master’s thesis a month ago, and already I’m feeling that urge again to lecture people on a topic in excruciating detail. Excellent :D Most of my early conlanging work was script creation too. Although, I've never posted much of it to the board, because I assumed our crowd w...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14374
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
Really? Do you not have gallon jugs of milk in the UK? Like this: https://pics.walgreens.com/prodimg/418563/450.jpg Our milk comes in pints! At the supermarket, there are plastic bottles of 1, 2, 4 and 6 pints. And the glass bottles the milkman delivers are 1 pint too. Bear in mind imperial pints a...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2425
- Views: 1480501
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027408
Re: Venting thread
I use AdBlock - I haven't had any message from YT telling me to disable it, but these days I'm getting the yellow bar, and sometimes a half-second of audio before it just turns black - then it takes a while before the actual video loads. I'm guessing adblock is letting the ad play but blocking the a...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2425
- Views: 1480501
Re: Conlang fluency thread
My attempt with Yorkish. The kalde wintre is nere, ei sneestorm skal kom. /θə kʰɔult wɪntr is niər | ə ˈsnistɔrm skə kʰɔm/ Kom i me warme hous, me win. Welkom! Kom here, syng o dans, et o drink. Thet ʒ'ha thenkt out. /kʰɔm i mə warm hous mə wɪn | ˈwɛlkʰɔm kʰɔm hiər sɪŋk ɔ dans ɛt ɔ trɪŋk | θɛt hja ...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1208
- Views: 715843
Re: Happy things thread!
Wow, I hadn't heard of this before!! This means there's now more than one conlang conference running, neat! I'll have to check out the recordingmasako wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:05 am https://kopikon.com/
So, I am absolutely elated to say that I had a blast at Georgetown Univ. presenting during the first ever Kopikon.
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063440
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
อ่ยูที่เหมือนเชียงใหม่น่ะ
I'm in Chiang Mai
ไม่ใช่! มีวีซ่าED ดังนั้นแค่เรียมได้
No, I have the ED visa (education), so I can just study
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063440
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Inahea koe i tīmata ai ki te ako i te reo Tairana. When did you start learning Thai? สามเดือมที่แล้ว Three months ago ย้ายนาเมืองไทยพฤษภาคม I moved to Thailand in May แต่ว่าก่อนมารู้นิดหน่อยแล้ว เพราะว่าเรียมสี่ปีที่แล้ว Although I knew a little bit before I came, because I studied four years ago
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:28 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063440
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:16 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1017984
Re: What do you call ...
My grandparents chose what they wanted to be called, and as far as I know that's normal for the UK. So I have a maternal Nana and Grandpa, and a paternal Gran and Grandad. Incidentally, my Gran is my dad's stepmum, and we refer to his mother (who passed away before I was born) as Grandma. Where I gr...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:06 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1017984
Re: What do you call ...
A handout is a very informal way to package a small text, often stapled together. (But a company could use the term for something fancier.) Oh, for me a handout is distributed to a group of people in some kind of teaching or training session, containing some version of the information being present...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:20 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What do you call ...
- Replies: 413
- Views: 1017984
Re: What do you call ...
I'd call these either brochures or pamphlets: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/619553524258308098/1146541898232758272/GetAttachmentThumbnail.png Ah... are those a single sheet of paper? I'd call that a leaflet Otherwise, I'm with the general consensus here on brochure vs pamphlet vs tract A...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2425
- Views: 1480501
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Dain heimerde weih ugeo yoelman geram wan wedain alde yoelgi Dain heimer-de weih ugeo yoel-man ge-ram wan we-dain alde yoel-gi This week started with two days of straight rain, but it's become sunnier since then Gwež aaž he tšug ihibbitsan wiŋ ihibban žan anniyuŋ. gwež aa=ž he tšug ihii=b<its>an wi...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 115
- Views: 79814
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
I have a soft spot for funky consonant clusters, so I love the aesthetic of Eŋes! A whole NP can also be used as subject. Note that if it’s definite (and singular, but more on that later), the formative to- must be inserted before the verb: Looking forward to when you explain why this is/isn't a dit...