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Your list reminds me a bit of http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/gismu.txt . I think part of the reason I stick with Excel is that my eyesight isn't that good and I need the colors and zoomable interface to make sure I'm reading the words right. A single mistake like misreading a schwa as ...

I use MS Excel. Each major language gets a sheet of its own, but the lesser languages share a pad and therefore have a lot of blank entries since not every language inherits every root. I tried using MS Access once, which would have allowed me to link cells to other cells and therefore keep track of...

Diphthongs in Dutch do not contrast in length. Perhaps you're confused by the existence of "short ei" and "long ij", but those are pronounced identically, with the words "short" and "long" here serving only to distinguish between the two different spellings. ...

Not mine, but David J. Peterson has remarked that if he's working on a language where, for whatever reason, he has decided the orthographic representation of long vowels will be a doubled vowel letter, then that language can never have long /e/ and long /o/ - he always gets rid of them by dipthongi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6GPOGSuv9Q <--- i found this funny. at one point i had memorized the entire routine even though I had no one to tell it to that would get the joke. Some languages adapt better than others to a high syllable-per-minute rate of speech ... Mandarin Chinese would be one ...

For Poswa, syntax is the most difficult thing. Word generation is easy because I prioritize Poswa above all other languages, and therefore if a Poswa word conflicts with something in another language, Poswa wins and I have to remake the other word instead. But syntax is difficult because it's so unl...

Varas eui texi ma xu ma? Why were you angry and with what? Fembapo wibabo. parasite-ACC-1p hate-TR-1p I hate parasites. I know that feeling. It's soooo satisfying to kill weeds. It's my favourite activity when I do gardening. Bwabo, ... pobbosi pissa sifeži .... mobeži. remind-1P ..... speech-1P-GE...

My dislike of IPA /g/ may date back to a very early conlang, Moonshine, from 1994, which was very compact and optimized for religious writing. Many words consisted of just single consonants. The word for God was k , and the word for Satan was g . Therefore, I avoided creating any other words with /g...

Uralic has consonant gradations, despite some languages having only 13 consonants.

Pupwem, parifaepam, bižžinap pwimbinam, bibambavi femba luppap poššebel. trail-LOC, sports-playground-LOC, government domain-habitat-LOC, bittersweet-Ø-see-1P.past parasitic-Ø oak-ACC wrap-TR-3P.past. On a trail by the stadium on government property, I saw a parasitic bittersweet plant wrapped arou...

Minor correction, Yiuel, i think you're off by a factor of ten. 100k is small but 10k would be really tiny, comparable to Sámi.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gaol

I had a dream last night that actually could make a good premise for a murder mystery. I like it, thanks for sharing. It took me until midday to read it and understand the plot properly .... I get long and detailed dreams too, but rarely ones where the same plot elements persist throughout. _______...

From the Drudge Report:
UPDATE: Human Heart Left On Flight Miraculously Makes It To Donor...
(Unfortunately, the recipient was left waiting.)

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Alternative title: I left your heart in saaaaacramento....

Albania was teaching Esperanto for awhile but it died out quickly. Hard to find mention of it, even, except for a snippet of an article by Esperanto promoters that says ALBANIA ACTS Esperanto or Three Languages to Learn The Albanian government has decreed that Esperanto be made an obligatory study i...

And still don't (almost all small children and many healthy adults have gaps between their front teeth). However, as long as you permit [pf bv] as acceptable pronunciations, i think true labiodental stops are viable phonemes. Ive used them in just a few languages ... ṗ works great for the voiceless ...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 6:25 pm

Space60 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:24 pm

It is because -n't is an inflection and not a clitic, so it moves with the word it is attached to.

reminds me a bit of how English 'd behaves like a PoS all it's own. E.g. "I really'd rather not"... it seems to go after the most convenient vowel final word.

Bump, because it's been a month and this is a good question. My own instinct tells me that those pacific langs are the winner, with Slavic close behind , but I'd be curious to know more too.

I've been very careful with liquids today because I dreamt I got my phone wet. Other than that, it was a typical formulaic dream, with a large building, a swimming pool, perhaps a theater, etc and no other people, at least none that I remember talking to. However I did have four other cellphones the...

Next: button Poswa: bannapwom button on clothing Pabappa: wappula button on clothing Both terms are related to the concept of fastening things together. The proper word for the machine sense of button would be derived from the verb to "push" plus either the word for bulb (itself from a wo...