Zompist Bboard Again

Hi, thanks for the quick answers. This has actually helped me quite a lot, getting the gist of what languages are doing here. I assume you mean borrowed names. Native names usually just pattern as ordinary nouns. Nah, not just borrowed ones. I was aware that borrowed names are less strict, I just wo...

While conlanging I stumbled upon a question regarding the above, and all I could find through Google online search was more or less concerned with the syntactical complexities of names. To set the scene: I am constructing a language, and I started by creating some names which gave me some ideas for ...

@airetara - you don't seem to be a native speaker of German, OTOH, you're certainly not a beginner. How long have you been learning German? @hwhatting - You might think it doesn’t seem like I was a native speaker of German, but I can assure you I am. But now I’m interested: What makes you think I w...

Is the passage grammatical? Thank you. 1.Wenn man Wasser hältst, kannst man Eimer benutzen. Nur einer kann viel halten. 2. Wenn man aber überhaupt / gar keinen Eimer oder andere Sachen / Dinge / Behälter hast, kannst man einem auch die Hände benutzen, indem man sie hohl machst. 3. Aber nur ein weni...

Well, technically it was partly yesterday and partly today, but I’ve managed to work on my derivational morphology for tasulek. So now I don’t have to make up new roots all the time, although I don’t like all the derivations… maybe I need to go back to the drawing board