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- Wed Jun 26, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3833
- Views: 508837
Re: Random Thread
Her sleeves were green because she was on the Grassy Knoll. It’s a child ballad about JFK, if you read between the lines.
- Tue Jun 25, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3833
- Views: 508837
Re: Random Thread
With how people go rabidly feral over AI, we’re on track to experience the Butlerian Jihad several millennia ahead of schedule.
- Sun Jun 23, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3833
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- Sun Jun 23, 2024 3:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 807
- Views: 407233
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Default overtone singing? I hope so!Creyeditor wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 10:15 am Does two glottises also mean two f0? So two pitch levels?
- Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Olarrthe
- Replies: 52
- Views: 28950
Re: Olarrthe
Any chance you’ll be picking this up?WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:20 pm Development of Olarrthe is suspended, probably for a few months. Maybe up to a year, though I hope not.
- Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 331
- Views: 348930
- Fri Jun 21, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 1000
- Views: 3654815
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
Chinese trio outfit Re-TROS’ KEXP session.
- Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 708
- Views: 563164
Re: Confusing headlines
More of a confusing comic strip dialogue, but thanks to Dick Tracy, we get this demonstration of why indexing is important:
It reminded me of the section in one of the LCKs talking about this sort of thing with reference to ergative languages.
It reminded me of the section in one of the LCKs talking about this sort of thing with reference to ergative languages.
- Sun Jun 16, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3068
- Views: 2928740
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Some words I discovered in Täptäg tonight: cheoach /cʰu̯akʰ/ 'write down, take ( e.g. , dictation) down' faa ⅁ uoni /ɸɑːŋwoni/ 'drum the fingers' fedišwaä /ɸediʃ͎eæ/ 'abound' ideäoi /idjæwi/ 'cloud' quheoo /kʰjoː/ 'tend to s.o. 's wounds' teaässefer /tjeæsseɸeɾ/ 'to sit, to get comfortable' thiie /t...
- Wed Jun 12, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3068
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Re: Conlang Random Thread
I'd been lowkey trying to figure out just how to germanely describe Täptäg ř . As conceived it's a uvular fricative with a trilled release. I couldn't think of anything that seemed proper or like it fit until it hit me this evening: /χ͡ʀ̥/. It's perfect. (I was thinking of just using /ʀ̥/ or /ʀ/ but...
- Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 807
- Views: 407233
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Some snippets from a comparative Kgáweq’-Täptäg etymological dictionary.
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Translation challenge thread
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7257
Re: Translation challenge thread
Tell me, where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him. - Celeborn, The Fellowship of the Ring
(I'll actually attempt translating this once my game night is over.)
(I'll actually attempt translating this once my game night is over.)
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2733
- Views: 327919
Re: Word evolution game
Regressive devoicing (plus fixing the error)
[ɕɛ̥ɕ]
ziési
‘root, radish, rutabaga’
Roundness assimilation
[ɰ̆ɤ́en]
uwóen
‘seal (animal); sycophant; time’
[ɕɛ̥ɕ]
ziési
‘root, radish, rutabaga’
Roundness assimilation
[ɰ̆ɤ́en]
uwóen
‘seal (animal); sycophant; time’
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2733
- Views: 327919
Re: Word evolution game
Final vowels devoice following voiceless consonants
[ʑɛ́.ɕi̥]
ziési
‘root, radish, rutabaga’
Yumuşak ge-ization
[ɯ̀.ɰ̆óen]
uwóen
‘seal (animal); sycophant; time’
[ʑɛ́.ɕi̥]
ziési
‘root, radish, rutabaga’
Yumuşak ge-ization
[ɯ̀.ɰ̆óen]
uwóen
‘seal (animal); sycophant; time’
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2733
- Views: 327919
Re: Word evolution game
Labial-sibilant clusters > whistled sibilants
[z͎jɛ́.sì]
vẓiéṭi
‘root, radish, rutabaga’
Regressive frontness harmony
[ɯ̀.wóin]
iwóin
‘seal (animal); sycophant (< one always clapping for someone); time (that which keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future)’
[z͎jɛ́.sì]
vẓiéṭi
‘root, radish, rutabaga’
Regressive frontness harmony
[ɯ̀.wóin]
iwóin
‘seal (animal); sycophant (< one always clapping for someone); time (that which keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future)’
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2733
- Views: 327919
Re: Word evolution game
Loss of low-tone syllables immediately preceding high tone, with cluster simplifications [vʒjɛ́.tsì] vẓeṣéṭi ‘root, radish, rutabaga’ Gudi Ngamo tone shift [iè.wóin] iewoin ‘seal (animal); sycophant (< one always clapping for someone); time (that which keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the...
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2733
- Views: 327919
Re: Word evolution game
*t > ts / _E
[vʒɛ̀.ɬɛ́.tsì]
vẓeṛéti
"root, radish"
Lag deletion of *w
[ié.wein]
ievevin
"seal" (the animal)
[vʒɛ̀.ɬɛ́.tsì]
vẓeṛéti
"root, radish"
Lag deletion of *w
[ié.wein]
ievevin
"seal" (the animal)
- Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 708
- Views: 563164
Re: Confusing headlines
I'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner. My guess is it’s Kennedy. How I parse this: In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner][,] and [former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single v...
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Representing suprasegmentals in sound change appliers
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1115
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Twin Aster
- Replies: 312
- Views: 268202
Re: Twin Aster
Kgáweqʼ may come to feature an unusual and mildly productive derivational operation. I noticed I had a minimal pair ’ấsts’âd /ˈʔəsts’əd/ 'to harm' and ’âsts’ấd /ʔəsˈts’əd/ 'to debate'; they differ solely in stress assignment. This piqued my curiosity as, if you turned your head and squinted, it does...