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- Thu May 09, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Analysis Swap
- Replies: 1
- Views: 84
Re: Analysis Swap
This definitely sounds like a cool idea.
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 575
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
The biggest sort of interdialectal influence through the media I have noticed is increased familiarity with other dialects' vocabulary; e.g. in my dad's generation it was common for the name Randall to be shortened to "Randy", but in my generation people know what "randy" means ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 575
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
I'm tempted to say the collapse of global telecommunications, or else a future where all of it occurrs by text, something like that.... then again, I wonder if the different big dialects of english (you know, brit, american, australian... not so much norfolk vs suffolk) have grown more or less inte...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4416
Re: Survival of Greco-Roman paganism
As a pagan and Platonist I have mulled this over a lot. I don't think "Christianity replaced paganism; the latter did not survive" is a satisfactory summary of what happened, especially if we understand "paganism" to include not just civic religion but all already existing "...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 429
- Views: 374834
Re: Lexicon Building
next: to sprout Msérsca: wruccur - to sprout; (playfully) to be built (of some structure), to become erect (of a penis) From wrýr , usually to be green but originally to grow + diminutive -ucc- . frissir - to bubble, fizz, pop up; to sprout, to bloom (esp. of many plants at once) Next: challenge or...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2431
- Views: 1481563
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Msérscas íx tereuri, bómi, ýri orri vaneam, mine ceppe thulle ost staneadme. Ea sdo (thýl) tereberro.
Msérsca had words for pine, palm, and oak, but not for trees in general. I just made one (thýl).
Msérsca had words for pine, palm, and oak, but not for trees in general. I just made one (thýl).
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Please Help in Designing a Consonant System
- Replies: 17
- Views: 812
Re: Please Help in Designing a Consonant System
I think the following gives you a good wide range without being unwieldy from the point of view of speakers of the most commonly spoken languages in the world: /p b t d k g/ /f v s z ʃ ʒ h/ /m n l r/ Perhaps allow medial geminates (limiting this to sonorants, voiceless stops, and voiceless fricative...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4935611
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
I've heard the lowering in pillow as well.
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Translation challenge thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6673
Re: Translation challenge thread
Msérsca: Víxadmesco sáca vaxadme. be.real*-NEG-SUBJ.PART** thing exist*-NEG.PRES "Any unreal thing exists not." Nothing unreal exists. *I'm pretty sure víxor to be real and vaxar to exist come from var to be + íx here and áx there , respectively. So we're kind of saying "Anything not ...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Kala updates etc.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 105893
Re: Kala updates etc.
This is impressive. I don't have much else to say, but yeah. Playing the long game pays off.
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: When do you say this is a conlang and a conlanger...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2383
Re: When do you say this is a conlang and a conlanger...
Why are we conlangers and not conlangists ? In my mind - ists seem to be more high-brow than - ers ; I'd like to be an - ist . Conlangist sounds odd to me; as you say, -ist sounds rather posh and high-brow (which to me is rather a reason to avoid it), while conlang is an informal slang term (origin...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Please help me come up with some case endings for Vrkhazhian
- Replies: 4
- Views: 697
Re: Please help me come up with some case endings for Vrkhazhian
This may not be super helpful but I'd say it could be fun (and more naturalistic) to introduce a bit of ambiguity. If you're feeling things are a bit too regular, try thinking about distinctions Vrkhazhian speakers could do without. As a random example, the genitive singular ending for feminine noun...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: "healthful"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8358
Re: "healthful"
I first encountered "healthful" in a textbook in elementary school and it rubbed me the wrong way.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2976
- Views: 2849928
Re: Conlang Random Thread
If you were reading a speculative fiction story, and came upon the noun <chonday> how would you pronounce it in your head and what would be your immediate associations or thoughts about it, just from spelling. What would be different if the word was <tonday> instead? If you're curious, I'm thinking...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 91
- Views: 18488
Re: Lexember 2023
Lexember 31: dexir [ˈdɛksɪɾ] to carry on, inherit, keep a tradition cádir [ˈkoːðɪɾ] to hand something down, start a tradition, intend for a purpose These two words have overlapping meanings but from opposite directions. The passive participles dexit and cádit (especially with prás custom ) can both ...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 91
- Views: 18488
Re: Lexember 2023
Week 3 (Obviously a little late but i didn't feel like it) *lasi “coffee as a drink” from sun elven *late from *lat- “to pour” *oi lasi “blue coffee” coffee from a young bean which is prized for its bitter flavour *ono lasi “red coffee” coffee with milk sometimes known as lasi mimba “brown coffee” ...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 91
- Views: 18488
Re: Lexember 2023
Lexember 29 & 30:
sór
[søːɾ]
Sun
cíl
[ciːl]
Moon
cílam
[ˈciːlam]
month
sór
[søːɾ]
Sun
cíl
[ciːl]
Moon
cílam
[ˈciːlam]
month
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 91
- Views: 18488
Re: Lexember 2023
Lexember 28:
drussur
[ˈdrʏsːʏɾ]
to clean, tidy up
ficcir
[ˈfɪkːɪɾ]
to dirty, befoul
xónor
[ˈksøːnɔɾ]
to be clean
drussur
[ˈdrʏsːʏɾ]
to clean, tidy up
ficcir
[ˈfɪkːɪɾ]
to dirty, befoul
xónor
[ˈksøːnɔɾ]
to be clean
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 91
- Views: 18488
Re: Lexember 2023
Lexember 27:
spínir
[ˈspiːnɪɾ]
to follow, be next
mátar
[ˈmoːtaɾ]
to precede
spínir
[ˈspiːnɪɾ]
to follow, be next
mátar
[ˈmoːtaɾ]
to precede
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 978
- Views: 477781
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
ʼOsomu̧ ʼēngi mindēndē vo vū etetnuom vo umerre moment, ā ī cūlecuōle dōheng vo xonde ponyesuomb. ʼOfonyȩ kerruo nyeʼ nyenyerre bëā vo hetēs. ʼĒ jīöm fonyefonyȩ mirruondye cā hetemȩ, ā ļā pōëm ļinkut ī cumelȩ, āi ļā kngā̧ tūngo̧ cuorr ļā fōj ngulengȩ. I had something even more different, but now it...