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- Fri May 17, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 218
Re: A scratchpad
Modals: Well, this language does not have conventional modals in the way that IE languages tend to. Rather, it has verbs that take a subordinate clause as an argument which it qualifies. Here are some such verbs: want (trans.), sii need (trans.), mag would (intr.), yaa is able to be (intr.), mad is ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
- Replies: 132
- Views: 66530
Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
By the way, what are those x's supposed to signify? I tried looking up the extIPA for those but the page I got on the Wiki rendered much of such things as blocks.
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1482982
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Znex, are you working on Mercian, the North Germanic language with even more Old English influence? Ʒ'hak giare mik wark pae marcisc gin at is awi tha ettles, ut gin tha wil, ʒe kun skrive ei breve um at braith. :) I haven't done much work on Markish if that is what you mean, but if you like, I cou...
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2692
- Views: 275931
Re: Word evolution game
[ew] > [øː]
[xø̀ː.gʎé]
偽 | へうりぇう | へぉれゃえぉ | 허러 | heowlyeo
Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"
[xø̀ː.gʎé]
偽 | へうりぇう | へぉれゃえぉ | 허러 | heowlyeo
Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: bradrn’s scratchpad
- Replies: 120
- Views: 80255
Re: bradrn’s scratchpad
Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3018
- Views: 2851701
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Forget about ga there - ga is intransitive (I was half-asleep when writing that, hence my many typos in my original post).
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1482982
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- tradition, rihta
COP-PRES yogh tradition-ADJ.GEN-COMPR
The yogh is more traditional.
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2461
- Views: 1482982
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- appear, naw
- Latin, latin
- write, scratch, xaca
appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB yogh write-NOM.AGT-ADJ.LIKE-COMPR Latin-GEN
The yogh looks more Latin-script-like.
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
- Replies: 132
- Views: 66530
- Fri May 17, 2024 6:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3018
- Views: 2851701
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Of course, I use ergative and accusative in non-standard fashions to refer to marked arguments of intransitive verbs in a fluid-S arrangement along with antipassive and passive verbs, where agentive S is direct for animates and ergative for inanimates and patientive S is accusative for animates and...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
- Replies: 132
- Views: 66530
Re: Reverse Rominazation Challenge Thread, v2.0
⟨a e i o u⟩ /a e i o u/ ⟨aa ee ii oo uu⟩ /aː eː iː oː uː/ ⟨m n⟩ /m n/ ⟨t c k q⟩ /t t͡ʃ k q/ ⟨th ch kh qh⟩ /tʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ qʰ/ ⟨t' c' k' q'⟩ /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ qʼ/ ⟨b d j g⟩ /b d d͡ʒ ɡ/ ⟨b' d'⟩ /ɓ ɗ/ ⟨f s z x h⟩ /f s z x h/ ⟨w l y r⟩ /w l j r/ (I did see this language a couple of days ago, so I’ve tried to avo...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 129
- Views: 334033
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
. (I also have a tenuous unstressed /u/ in some unstressed C_V such as in mutual that in careful speech is pronounced as a full vowel but readily becomes [w] in everyday speech.) That's not unusual in words with -ual ; in fact, some speakers can have no /w/ at all, making -ual and -ial homophones. ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2692
- Views: 275931
Re: Word evolution game
Schwa epenthesis after final consonants. (Note that the schwa takes the tone of the preceding vowel.)
[çỳ.wǿɺʲə́]
偽り | つわり | hyuweolh
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious"
[çỳ.wǿɺʲə́]
偽り | つわり | hyuweolh
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious"
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75134
Re: War in the Middle East, again
This reminds me of someone I know who considers themselves a feminist -- she dunks on Muslims to no end because of this kind of thing (in addition to essentially believing in collective responsibility, where all Muslims are responsible for what some Muslims do (and all men are responsible for what ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75134
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Well it's from a leftist, so they're not using it as a brainless offhand for "progressive thing I don't like" The brainless use is so common I'm afraid using either term about instantly loses my attention :) Same here. ...about America (and Israel) using progressive politics based on iden...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75134
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Frankly, I can't decide if this goes in here or the us politics thread (because both are relevant), but I saw this video by the Kavernacle about the rise of "woke fascism" or the use of progressive identity politics in service of illiberal policies. I'm very dubious of the 'woke' and 'ide...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75134
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Well it should be remembered that just because someone is opposed to teh Empire does not mean they are good or that they are even better than Amerika. Take the case of China, as has been mentioned repeatedly on here. If any country replaces the US as hegemon in the foreseeable feature it will be Ch...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2692
- Views: 275931
Re: Word evolution game
People get sick of not having normal rounded vowels and semivowels.
[çý.wó.ɺʲì]
偽り | つわり | hyiwari
"lie, falsehood; (criminal slang) alibi, especially if dubious"
[çý.wó.ɺʲì]
偽り | つわり | hyiwari
"lie, falsehood; (criminal slang) alibi, especially if dubious"
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 455
- Views: 75134
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Well it should be remembered that just because someone is opposed to teh Empire does not mean they are good or that they are even better than Amerika. Take the case of China, as has been mentioned repeatedly on here. If any country replaces the US as hegemon in the foreseeable feature it will be Chi...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
- Replies: 129
- Views: 334033
Re: Pronunciation of Standard English in America (1919)
On that note, I assume that I'm not odd in having a very tenuous unstressed /i/ in many unstressed C_V positions that in careful speech is pronounced as a full vowel but which readily becomes [j] or even disappears in everyday speech. (I also have a tenuous unstressed /u/ in some unstressed C_V such...