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Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 5:54 pmActually drive and write are in the same ablaut class.

Yeah, along with arrive, type, like, (a)rise, chide, glide, guide, ride and oblige … at least in a perfect world.

A morpheme is an idemtifiable element of a word that changes the meaning driven without the -(e)n would be the base form, not a past participle. Bad example. Without the -en, it’s just /drɪv/. The vowel is altered exactly like write > written. It’s just not shown orthographically because v is tradi...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2026 8:42 pm Does anyone else have a consistent phonemic contrast between enable and unable?

Yes. That's completely standard outside of the US and a few STRUT/schwa-merging regions in, from memory, mid-north-ish England.

enable /əˈneɪbəl/ [əˈnæɪ̯bɫ̩]
unable /ʌˈneɪbəl/ [äˈnæɪ̯bɫ̩]

I see the man that kicks the dog -> I see the dog kicking man I see the man that walks -> I see the walking man If so, how do you handle adverbs? I see the man that kicked his dog yesterday -> I see the "yesterday dog kickinged" man? Ich sehe den den Hund tretenden Mann. Ich sehe den gehe...

I nu . It's a thing. Lodzai no zyi bawe zyamo vavyu ngo. [ˈlɔd͡zɐɪ̯ ˈnɔ ʒɪ ˌbɐwɛ ˌʒɐmɔ ˌvɐvjʊ ˈŋɔ] lo-dza =i no zyi ba-we zya-mo va-vyu ngo situation-maintain.divine.balanceᴬ=COP emitᴬ R.DSᴱ intenseᴱ-PLᴱ suitableᴱ-consumeᴬ allᴱ-type person Vavyu ngoi ze no ho u zyedzi lodza. [ˌvɐvjʊ ˈŋɔɪ̯ ˌzɛ ˌnɔ ˈ...

'S' = subject (a purely grammatical aspect)) 'O' = object (a purely grammatical aspect) 'A' = agent (semantic, though languages can be idiosyncratic in what is the agent and what is the patient) 'P' = patient (semantic) The usual notation is S = intransitive subject, A = transitive subject, O = tra...

/f/ in 'diphthong' füül intuitiw tu mi als en rechtskraiwingautspraak. /f/ in 'diphthong' intuitively feels to me like a spelling pronunciation. Mi ngai zyu /p/ wi nge dyi 'diphthong'-i hendwa nde ngengga u ye dzozye zyi lo vwegyo u vindwa. /p/ in diphthong intuitively feels to me like a misreading...

diftong Ik skulde seggen, dat file engeliske spraakwarieteten heb /p/ and nicht /f/ in dit word. I should say that many English varieties have /p/ and not /f/ in this word. Wi nge "varieties" do, ndzwai myegi ndze vwendye u vwegyo. I zei yui zyange vubu. Dwehii banggwa ngegyo zyi nggwe zy...

What is the difference between /ai/ and /ay/ among the diphthongs? If it's a contrast between /ai/ and /ay/, I'd assume that one ends close to [ i] and one ends close to [y], but the diphthongs aren't listed in a way that suggests it's IPA (no slashes or square brackets), so we can assume that the ...

De kalde winter is naher, en sneesturm skal kommen. Nyo gyangya ye gyei ndye. Ngini zwani gyeve dzegei ga zowa. Kom in main warme haus, main friind . He limi mba nga u ye dzegye, hwe ngoho nga. Wilkom! Kom hiir, sing and dans*, eet and drink. . I ho do, yu wai lu! He zona, do ndzwengga ye ndzwendi,...

Naʼos ner rGyerman magiwu… [naʔˌos.neʒ.ʒɟeɾ.man.ma.ɟiˈwu] naʼos ner r-Gyerman ma-gi-w·u someone even ACC-German NEG-can-AUX·speak Not all of us can speak German… Andskuldiging, ik wulde witten, of jeman kunde forstaan, wat ik heb seggen sonder en üwersetting. Sorry, I wanted to know whether anyone ...

I made one like this back in 2017, Letaale , inspired by both Iljena and Abakwi and with my usual thing of not having a noun-verb distinction, so all roots have a noun form (triconsonantal) and a verb form (trivocalic) with the noun form being equivalent to the agent noun of the verb form and the ve...

jal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2026 9:57 am

And German orthography is simpler than that of Dutch.

Fo sahtm no! Holandes raying mana u isi pas Jahman, sef dem batm twin-"n".
Definitely not! Dutch ortography is easier than German's, except for the dreaded between-"n".

ik leef
we/wij leven
ik heb geleefd

Adjectives are much more difficult than they need to be. Olda ting u ahcip pas dem a won ina Jahman, so Olandes co. :mrgreen: All things in German are more difficult than then need to be, as Dutch proves. :mrgreen: Zyange Datyii ne dyigyodyi ye a dangga gwe dingga. Dutch has emphatic and unstressed...

You are German. 😝 Im ste! :D Mi les lehn Jahman pas mi danji lebl, oba mi won taym. He is! :D I should learn more German than my questionable level, but I lack the time. Maki Twenii zi nge zyu lo nwa zandii haba dinyo do he ze limwe nge zyange Dyamani. Mark Twain said life is too short to learn Ger...

hwhatting wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2026 2:35 am That's a funny story.
I see that I don't have developed any lexicon in that area (fun, laughing, jokes...) yet... time to get working on that!

Wai ndwa ngo Dyamani.
You are German.

Everybody wants to get old, noone wants to be old. Nge dyiwai hwhatting. It was hwhatting who said that. Nu en sam sancunaus dauriaf gantun ennun mochai, yaup tommé somé aiwé dauriais immoi ennun wolt. PRTC 3.M-SG.ACC with old.man-SG.GEN soul-SG.INSTR born-M.SG.ACC be-INF can-3SG.PRES.ACT, thus.and...

Cailai a tan senutatun bíten wollantis, nainus sancus ennun néwult. whole-M.PL.NOM to ART-F.SG.ACC old.age-SG.ACC live-INF want-3PL.PRES.ACT, none-M.SG.NOM old-M.SG.NOM NEG.want-3SG.PRES.ACT Everybody wants to get old, noone wants to be old. (Lit.: All want to live to the old age, noone wants to be...

jal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 9:12 am

Pedant wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 8:24 am"Good to be back, Jal! How have you been?"

Mi a tahn ol pon ol
Getting older and older .

Lazye ngai nggwa nge zyu lo li ba danyoi ba vi, mye dei ba ho u gii de byalo.
My mother always says that getting old is terrible, but it's better than the alternative.

Thanks. I've made a new video that shows its new leaf and also how small it was when I got it. Dis memba mi bo Likl Cop a Oritnis :mrgreen: This reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors :mrgreen: Mye dei ze ga mo nga. But it's not going to eat me. Anumŋun ni lbuʼ; eŋeyni Sidni moʼpocfoŋ. [a.numˈŋun.ni....