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Ma reo ahmeug yoer leim non hod nugumun oryeihe ma reo ahmeug yoer leim non hod nu-gum-un ory-eihe I haven't written much about conlangs in quite a while Ma memun Leima ad orneru yangou edenehun gum hinemi ma memun Leima ad orneru yango-eu ed-ene-hun gum hinemi I'm working on Leima to try and make ...

America does have an equivalent to Britain's iconic pillar boxes that are placed around a city: https://i0.wp.com/typology.city/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5205.jpg?resize=780%2C780&ssl=1 and "snorkel boxes": https://live.staticflickr.com/5081/5259101737_df01d96012.jpg Oh yes, now ...

for people surprised that mail delivery would pick up from the house, what is the arrangement where you're at? do you get mail delivered to your house but not picked up from it?? or some other system Yes, pretty much! In the UK, most houses have a letterbox, a flap in the front door which the postm...

In the UK you'd get single-quotes instead. A cursory look online tells me this is highly contested. As a Brit, I am used to seeing double quotation marks as default everywhere, and it's the option I find most natural. I don't recall being taught to use one or the other in school, but I'm pretty sur...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:46 am In short, // is syntax for an exception. The sound change will not be applied in a position where the exception matches.

Aha! Great, thanks. I hadn't thought to look in the reference document yet

Congrats, Brad! Great work Could explain how // ^+Str+Pri _ is operating in this example from the docs? (It's under featural categories there) categories C = m n p t k b d g f s v z r l y w +Str+None = a e i o u ə ɨ +Str+Sec = à è ì ò ù ə̀ ɨ̀ +Str+Pri = á é í ó ú ? ? V = +Str+None &+Str+Sec &...

In America, the flag (the red thing on the side, which is made of metal, not cloth) on the mailbox is raised by the owner to signify to the mail carrier that there is outgoing mail inside the box. Otherwise, the mail carrier might skip opening the box and miss the outgoing mail if there is no mail ...

I see two different blue butterflies in different places (browsing chrome on samsung android), going by emojipedia: samsung and twitter In the titles: samsung arufabetto jun tabun 🦋 (normal text) twitter google translate says the UAE is arabushuchōkokurenpō. apparently the part that isn't arab is ma...

Hope you don't mind me jumping in. I might be missing some details from earlier posts Final set of input and output words: ʔbu̯ɩ̈n → bōn [บน ‘above’] ʔblɩ̈en → dɩ̄an [เดือน ‘moon, month’] drɩ̈o → rɩ̄a [เรือ ‘boat’] ɣɩ̈ən → khɩ̄ɩ̈n [คืน ‘night’] ňuŋ → jūŋ [ยุง ‘mosquito’] siuᴮ → sìu [สิ่ว ‘chisel’] b...

xxx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 1:58 pm [images]

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 3:38 pm Product ads these days are full of sus machine translations. I never trust them anymore when trying to learn new vocabulary in a non-native language.

Wait, these are real ads??? My initial read was that xxx made them as a joke. I had a good chuckle about that.

Aargh… why are you forcing me to look at the crankery again… Sorry friend! It's mostly a joke challenge, though I could imagine someone here proposing a compelling solution Anyway, does English count? Phonetically it uses three series (voiced, tenuis, aspirated), but they’re merged in various ways ...

Therefore the plosives come in trinary (which is more optimal than the binary system found in Standard Average European, and the quaternary system found in Sanskrit, because 3 is closer to e than either 2 or 4). Bravo to bradrn for finding out the correct way to spread a trinary plosive subsystem. ...

Tell me, where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him. - Celeborn, The Fellowship of the Ring Hau ougo, gen rug Gandalhu hilha, med nona magweah araug houhai Hau ougo, gen rug Gandalhu hir-ha, med non-a magwe-eh araug houh-ai Tell me, where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him -...

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 ...

Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious

I was six for the 1999 eclipse (by calculation, not memory). I don't remember the eclipse itself, despite probably witnessing it, but I do remember everyone talking about it and the special eclipse glasses.

Yup, this was a big problem for me for ages (now it's more of a little problem). Had so many phonology and grammar ideas but couldn't make the two marry up with morphology that felt right. Somehow I've learned to moderate, by working so much on Leima, which deliberately has a somewhat unnaturalistic...

Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:12 pm Yang ik pumuhrr?
what TOP PERF.INTR-change
"What's up?"

Eshi ne, suot!
For me, not much!

Goron nesheku laman - nehefino tul?
The spelling is unusual - what are the sounds?

Imralu wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:28 pm Dohi gož aa he pi kayak aaŋ.
do-hi gož aa | he pi kayak aa=ŋ
PST-CONT cogitate DEF.R2 | JUSS merely use.magic DEF.R2=1+2
I was thinking we'd just use magic.

Nonen irnim gen gumen oahmihanwaha?

Non-en

EXP-2s

irnim

think

gen

Q

gum-en

INST-2s

oahmih-anwa-ha

magic-type-what

What kind of magic are you thinking about using?

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:21 am Not "1 pint, 1 quart, 2 quarts, 3 quarts"? Interesting.

Heard of quarts but never used them - don't think I've ever seen anything measured in quarts in the UK.