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You could also pick a few nouns where the plural becomes singular. Dutch teen "toe" and schoen "shoe" did this. Helps if it's a noun found in the plural more often than not, but mass nouns might also switch over. German has a few words that look like plurals, but which I'm told c...

Yeah I get that, and I thought of some of those words too, but the difference I see is that in English, about half of those words require the word "tree" to be comprehensible in a free context, and the other half will still use the word "tree" much of the time anyway. Whereas in ...

Romanian has tei for linden tree. Not really a basic concept to me, but maybe it is to them ... also the longest word I've ever seen for love: dragoste.

There could also be a distinction between "I'm not sure if ...." and "I'm not sure which...." that is reflected on the verb.

How about a verb, with the dependent clause in the subjunctive ( if you have it)? You could even have two verbs, one for "to be sure, certain that..." and one for its negative. The etymology of the word in Poswa is from a word for "hug, grasp tightly " if you like concrete metaph...

i'd expect the female ones to use the /š/ pronunciation and the males the /č/, but it suggests that a lot of the girls named Charlie are just toddlers now so that may change.

I did think that ʕ → ŋ is plausible rhinoɡlottophilia, thouɡh. I may be the source of this conception, though I think I already admitted to it earlier in this thread so I held back when you mentioned it a few days ago. Some words appear to have / ŋ/ for classical Hebrew / ʕ/, but it's likely it was...

mi‘irinyəx ‘əra ‘i‘i‘ratra ‘annyə‘xantru In my experience beer is good for this Bappotiosebepis? grass-drink-GEN-favorite-2P-what? What's your beer? ____________________________ I'm severely out of practice with Poswa and may have even forgotten how to attach the question particle properly, althoug...

Okay, many thanks to all of you. I had not actually known that active participles existed as a distinct word form in any language.... i had just taken the word "participle" to mean a passive participle. This makes much more sense now. And I see there is a new active participle in modern Po...

THis one is obviously deliberate so I debated about putting it here, but, since I actually did get confused by this, here i go:

BEZOS EXPOSES PECKER

also at https://nyp.st/2DZyD4A , not sure who had it first. The HuffPo story seems to have removed the headline now.

Russian and Finnish: OK guys, I get that you don't like each other that much but is it really necessary to keep making all these little changes to make sure you don't ever ever end up using the same idea even once? "oh he's got word-initial stress now? I'm going to use dynamic stress and always...

Okay thank you. Two interesting things, though: 1) It's interesting that it's "be" instead of "have". I would have thought that saying the equivalent of "i am written", "i am slapped" etc would cause confusion, but i suppose its likely that Polish went through...

Does anybody know how Polish evolved a gender contrast in the past tense of its verbs? (And in fact, almost everything except the present tense?) It looks like they stuck person markers on top of a word that had a fixed gender contrast, but do we know what that was? Russian may preserve the older st...

The stem of one word for urine in Russian appears to be /s:/, yielding for example /ssu/ for the 1st person present indicative: see https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ссу#Russian And no ... It's not onomatopoeia.... The stem apparently goes back all the way to PIE *sikʷ- . Swahili mto "pillow&quo...

Variant name for hortative mood?

I would just use musical notes and if I had to write things in a compact line, maybe use colors to mark the tones. How important is tone vs everything else ? E.g. if tone is >50% of the info you might want an orthography that resembles music and highlights the pitch differences most prominently.

I read the post but I am sticking with my own idea because I don't think p>bh is likely.

Frosh is a slang term for freshmen... which in this case almost certainly means Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... better known these days as AOC.

Thanks, Ive always wanted something like that .... but it's for Linux. Does there exist anything comparable for Windows?

My preferences havent changed a bit since the old thread .... though I've fleshed out the post a bit better at http://www.frathwiki.com/Languages_of_Teppala#Traits_common_to_all_Teppalan_languages and http://www.frathwiki.com/Languages_of_Teppala#Traits_common_to_most_Teppalan_languages , which is w...