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Congratulations!

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Thanks, Raphael and Quint!

For the roof I used salmiak beams that I cut into pieces.

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I've created some miniature gingerbread houses over the past couple of weeks. If anyone wants to take a look: https://www.deviantart.com/zefyrinus/ar ... -865656248

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So Haleza Grise: Have you been working continuously on that conlang, little by little, or have you had long breaks from it? :shock: Some vowel developments I've been thinking about (in convenient order, not chronological): 'i > 'i 'i: > 'i: i > i i: > i 'e > 'i 'e: > 'i: e > e_↓ (I can't remember XS...

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Moose-tache did a hat trick.

Pabappa made a pun that's so bad it's funny:

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:59 am New US Dietary Guidelines Include Babies and Toddlers for First Time

Pabappa wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:46 am Finally. I've always wanted to try a dip based on kid-knee beans.

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Regarding tea, don't forget chai, which in many western languages has been borrowed in to mean "tea with spices".

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Is there a way to identify the grammars of a subset of natural languages as the greatest statistical outliers? Has this been done? You mean like what's the weirdest language? CALS has a feature that shows the averageness of your conlang. One could do the same for WALS I guess, but no one's done tha...

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Unrelated to the previous thing, I've been working on a branch of a language family. I keep changing my mind about how to do some lenition rules. Right now I have decided about these rules in this order: P > C[+affricate] / V(S)_V (S = semivowel) C[+affricate] > F / V(S)_V F[+voiced] > C[+approximan...

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Ares Land wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:13 pm For an extra consonant, how about /kw/? Or /c/, for symmetry?

Nah, not /c/ in such a small inventory. And I already have /tS/. But I have been thinking about /k_w/...

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I've also noticed on some international food packaging, the word Keks on what in English would be called "cookies" or "(sweet) biscuits", depending on where you learnt it. Swedish kex and Finnish keksi do come from English "cakes", and mean cookie. In Swedish it can al...

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dɮ the phoneme wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:57 am Does anyone know if Japanese uranai 'fortune telling' or sarasaranai 'not at all' undergo the colloquial reduction of ranai > nnai?

Doesn't that thing only happen to negated verbs? Which uranai isn't. That other word I've never even heard of.

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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:03 pm
Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:58 pm Oh, okay. So it had mostly to do with semantic drift of that one word. Maybe...
That certainly influenced it, but there are elements of the fiction in play that I don't feel ready to reveal.

Ah, intriguing.

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Maybe I should add /?/ after all. But only if I can come up with something fun to do with it.

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Oh, okay. So it had mostly to do with semantic drift of that one word. Maybe...

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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:12 pm r/conlangs is where you go when you just make your first conlang: Unglish. It has several noun cases, and none of that inferior irregularity. Also it's spoken by sexy wolves.

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I’d say it’s fine. (Precedents: Seneca has /t d k ɡ ʔ/, and Ket has /b t d k q/, both of which are pretty close. You may want to think about adding /b/ or /ʔ/ though.) Both of those are fine precisely because they have plosives in three POAs. :| There aren’t too many individual consonants which are...

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Maybe I can post this here, because I'm on my phone and don't have any notepad app. (So I've been doing all my conlanging in my head.) I was inspired by Man in Space a couple of days ago, and have been thinking about a phoneme inventory for a triconsonental root language. /m n/ <m n> /t d k/ <t d k>...

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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:56 amthis may have been done to distinguish between real plants and portrayals of them (this is culturally significant).

I'd like to know more about this.

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¿Qua inesse parchrôno nen George W Bush prementè est selectuhur Qinge malignist exmnènospata via potènte?
Remember when George W Bush used to be the worst president?

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Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:04 amWebp.net-compress-image.jpg

Many characters look like faces.

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