Zompist Bboard Again

Vinniaatut aperlarsitsimamarilaavi.
Wind can cause it to rain horizontally.

Aaq, pitaasikkuttaput pitaasirsitsimaa maranua "aperlaq".
Yes, my language has a word for "horizontal rain".

Sil qineg mahŋu ndaay, qantaba qitshayelŋu. /sil ˈʔinəɣ ˈmahŋu ⁿdaːj | ˈʔantaba ʔiˈt͡sʰajəlŋu/ sil qineg mah-ŋu ndaay, qanta=ba qi=tshayel-ŋu We had some rain here as well, but it’s stopped now. Kangurusaaseqqaaput mariara? Piqaakkaa qiina kaarsitsimaa? Rain in Australia? What's happening to this w...

Ujaasigiuttua... Allutujaaq mariarria. Tissaat ikaa nulaalaallulliut.
It's quiet again... Actually, it isn't, because it's raining. You guys can't hear that though.

Dat is het gedrag , 1 dat ik van andere katten ken; bijvo o rbeeld is dit precies dat, wat 2 de kat van onze dochter doet. De ongewone zaak 3 met onze kater is , dat hij het spelletje speeltje 4 terugbrengt 5 . 1: Still no German commas in Dutch. 2: Just using "wat" sounds better here. 3:...

Itiisularallutaq!
Welcome back!

Oniaartukkaasimiseqqaa qaaviuq!
May the pandemic end!

Qaajallunermai issuutsunaaq toqqaq.
When you're dead, it is too late.

jal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:05 am

hwhatting wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:55 amIk ben goedgeluimd vandaag.

"goedgeluimd" is quite oldfashioned. I'd say "in een goed humeur".

J'ai appris un nouveau mot.
Olen oppinut uuden sanan.
I've learnt a new word.

Getting rid of syllabic consonants by replacing them with /əC/ sequences might be another way to simplify the phonology.

Silaata maralluriq.
Because no-one is talking.

/p t s k/ <p t s k> /b d ɟ ɡ/ <b d j g> when oral, <m n ny ng> when nasal /v ð j/ <v l y> /i e o a/ <i e o a> [fː ɬː~t͡ɬː çː] <ff ll hy> [ɱ̊f n̥t͡ɬ ɲ̊ç~ɲ̊c͡ç] <mf ntl nhy> [ʋ̃ ð̞̃ j̃] <v l y> The three high surface tones (i.e. ˦, ˥, ˧˥) are marked with an acute accent, the others are unmarked. /ɡósī...

Pourquoi vous n'écrivez pas le <n> que nous ne prononçons pas non plus?
Miksi te ette kirjoita <n>, jota me myöskään emme äännä?
Why don't you guys write the <n> that we don't pronounce either?

There is another mystery that lies hidden in the sunken ruins of Doggerland: a mystery hundreds, if not thousands of years old. These languages, once spoken by ancient and mystifying races, might in fact share a common heritage. Can you demonstrate a relation between these languages using the Ruhle...

It doesn't even make sense to talk about "the first sound change that made the dialects no longer mutually-intelligible", because mutual intelligibility exists in a continuum from full to no intelligibility, and may be different for different speakers.

Je ne sais pas. Tu devrais aller au travail aujourd'hui pour utiliser Anki.
En tiedä. Sinun pitää mennä töihin tänään, jotta käytät Ankia.
I don't know. You should go to work today to use Anki.

J'espère que je n'ai pas oublié tout.
Minä toivon, että en ole unohtanut kaikkea.
I hope I haven't forgotten everything.

COVIDisillumarippa aviniilluu piqaakkaa artorriq. Wandervirusi monnikitat Baskii maraaritat kiimarunasassavi. Takukkaasinutunamaap.
The COVID vaccine doesn't work because the world is flat. The Basque monks of the wanderviruses said so, so it must be true. I am always serious.

What does that mean exactly? Old Catalan is clearly distinct from Mozarabic even from the earliest attestations. Oh, sure, but the earliest attestations are, IIRC, from the 11th century. I don't know how different these were in the 9th century, or if Mozarabic was ever spoken that far north. NW Cat...

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:23 am ???????

Kumojarippamissii tallumai! Pitaasikkutuna ukooqqaa!
Seven question marks! What a beautiful language!

Qassusitsimammaaq "kaajuga" itsaammara qiimima pitaasimikilaamarannuu ulluma.
There used to exist something called "time" which allowed one to create plenty of words.