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It looks like we all joined in 2018, but I joined the original site in 2006 (in May, maybe, from memory??) and I mostly can't remember who's been around longer than me and who hasn't. Like, I joined the new site a few days before Qwynegold, but I can't remember if Qwynegold is an oldbie who's been ...

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Hi! Hmm, not sure what you mean as I had a look at his Rkou and I honestly can't see any similarities other than the fact that they are both spoken by orcs. Or is that all you meant? Yeah, and he made them not wear shirts because he's into muscles. Whereas you've said that you like strong guys... :...

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French jour has been borrowed into Swedish with the meaning "on call duty".

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Nice designs! 👍 I actually got the head by designing it with a free online program called "MetaHuman Creator" (designed for outputting 3D models for games, but I'm using still frames from it for the bases for the busts). Huh, I noticed that at least the two last notes had pretty young peop...

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I can't see where the problem is, but I have a couple of suggestions you could test and see if anything different happens. 1) Try replacing [E#] with [.-+#] 2) Instead of having both E and # inside [], try making it two rules instead, with the environments ECV_ and #CV_ 3) Try doubling the last two ...

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Oh, I see ×2

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Anyway, does English "baked goods" count? There's also Finnish keittää (cook, boil (tr.)) > keitto (soup), keittiö (kitchen).

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What bread is boiled? Or is it just that they didn't distinguish the words for boil and bake?

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Hmm, you seem to have had similar inspiration as Xwtek in his orclang.

I was wondering about everything marked as definite. Are there any indefinites besides that clitic ähä? (I didn't quite understand that part of the grammar btw.)

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alice wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:07 am It would be more useful to be able to *predict* a phoneme inventory from its ecology. One can imagine, for example, a language spoken in Antarctica to make much use of the biabial trill.

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I don't know much Telugu, I'm afraid, but I think at least Tamil has the same distinctions. IIUC they say நினைக்க ninaikka as a Pure Dravidian counterpart to our evil Sanskrit-laden (partial) loanword വിചാരിക്കുക. തോന്നുക is Dravidian, so they instead say tōṉṟu in Tamil. Ah, thank you! *sigh* I'm w...

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コンラングしたいが暑いから集中できない。
Konrangu shitai ga atsui kara shūchū dekinai.
I want to conlang but it's so warm I can't concentrate.

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zompist wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:19 pmsize (Sum. lugal 'big man'; Latin magister 'more')

I was just gonna mention big vs. small; e.g. the big guy (boss, God), Sw. den lilla människan (lit. the small human, fig. commoner).

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Wait, what do you mean by "believe smth"? Like...isn't having an opinion believing something? :?: As in "I think it's going to rain tomorrow". In Malayalam, you would use വിചാരിക്കുക [ʋiˈd͡ʒaːɾikʲuga] to mean have thoughts, or maybe pondering. You would use തോന്നുക [ˈt̪oːn̪n̪uga...

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I have been toying with a language and decided it has both /r/ and /ɽ/ [ɽ~ɻ]. Its proto-language, although not fully fleshed out yet, had only *r and no other retroflexes. The Index Diachronica has little information on this. How would you evolve /r/ and /ɽ/ from *r? You can be creative :) r, r: → ...

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Oh, and does anyone have any suggestions on how one should borrow verbs from Swahili? Because the Swahili verb is quite complicated, with all kinds of obligatory affixes. Should I borrow the infinitive forms or just the verb root or what?

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*sigh* I'm working on the word "smell" right now, and it's difficult because Google Translate and Wiktionary don't give clear enough definitions. Take the following Arabic word: شم. Does it mean "to sense with one's nose" or "to give off an odour" or both? What about th...

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I put on LangTime Studio while I'm doing dishes. Otherwise I'd never get through those videos. Both LangTime and Biblaridion requires you to focus intensely for a very long time, or you'll get lost and have no idea what they're talking about. I haven't watched Artifexian in a long time because he do...

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Vijay wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:30 pm Is it just me, or do people seem to talk more about Lithuanian than about Latvian for some reason?

Yeah, it's because Lithuanian is supposed to be the "oldest" IE language.

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The&System wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:47 amI just feel like it only needs new words. It's not finished finished, but I don't need to make more grammar either

Mi no wakte i on.

I have never done this.

(I wanted to say "achieved", but that's a way too complicated word for me to have yet.)

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