Conlang fluency thread

[masako]

nye hinan kyo'ampa ka
Why is it so quiet here?

[bradrn]

nye hinan kyo'ampa ka
Why is it so quiet here?

Besiwe lheybuq maag.
/bəˈsiwə ˈɬəjbuʔ maːɣ/
1s=have knowledge NEG

I don’t know.

[jal]

Mi swel in se.
I don't know either.


JAL

[masako]

na nye halohitsa yekahatanuamon tlahapua
I've left the other board because of a petty debate.

[bradrn]

na nye halohitsa yekahatanuamon tlahapua
I've left the other board because of a petty debate.

Bendisii nduy nimute tlaquf ŋay mute waq fawetl thaŋ…
/bəⁿdiˈsiː ⁿduj niˈmutə ˈt͡ɬaʔuf ŋaj ˈmute waʔ ˈfawət͡ɬ tʰaŋ/
1s=think REL 2s=PST accompany 3s PST do speech DEF

I wonder who you were talking to…

(Warning: I haven’t yet ironed out all the details of how SVCs work, so please don’t take this as a representative example of what a grammatical sentence should look like.)

[jal]

I've left the other board because of a petty debate.

Yu min di CBB?
You mean the CBB?


JAL

[masako]

I wonder who you were talking to…

hualak
It's not important.

You mean the CBB?

tlalo
Of course.

[bradrn]

I wonder who you were talking to…

hualak
It's not important.

Um, that was meant as a rhetorical question — I’m pretty sure I can guess who it was. (Let me try: did his username have three letters and begin with ‘B’?)

[masako]

hasun tayo sahyak
Your conjecture is incorrect.

[bradrn]

hasun tayo sahyak
Your conjecture is incorrect.

I jump to conclusions too easily.

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(Actually — on reflection, that sentence would make a great translation challenge! It’s short, but idiomatic enough to make it tricky to translate. Certainly I have no idea how I would translate this into any of my conlangs, hence the absence of conlang text.)

[quinterbeck]

I jump to conclusions too easily.

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(Actually — on reflection, that sentence would make a great translation challenge! It’s short, but idiomatic enough to make it tricky to translate. Certainly I have no idea how I would translate this into any of my conlangs, hence the absence of conlang text.)

Yarhouha nonnih gum yeinohodu

Yad-houh-a

HAB-ALL-1s

n-onnih

ABST-end

gum

INST

yeinoh-odu

ease-too.much

I come to conclusions too easily

[bradrn]

Yarhouha nonnih gum yeinohodu

Yad-houh-a

HAB-ALL-1s

n-complete

ABST-end

gum

INST

yeinoh-odu

ease-too.much

I come to conclusions too easily

Lots of interesting things happening in this sentence! I’d like to ask some questions about it:

1. Is there any particular reason why the habitual is marked on the noun rather than the verb?
2. What does ‘ABST’ mean?
3. yeinoh-odu ‘too easily’ looks like an adverb, but is marked with the instrumental case — how does that work?
4. And a minor typo: you glossed ‘end’ as complete when surely it should be onnih.

[KathTheDragon]

Lħo zyan mlilatən rekən Naswiyən. Tak śinu:
I wrote some Naswiyan poetry. Here it is:

Ħat mažžət śirya ruśən,
Kun wuna, Nuse-Nusən.
Šraḫ nuġan knaknan

"In the time before time,
There was one being, the Eldest One.
She created all that ever existed."

Tak tali hira ḫune mlilatən rekən netyən lifiś "Šarət"
This is the first verse of a poem called "Creation".

[bradrn]

Lħo zyan mlilatən rekən Naswiyən. Tak śinu:
I wrote some Naswiyan poetry. Here it is:

Ħat mažžət śirya ruśən,
Kun wuna, Nuse-Nusən.
Šraḫ nuġan knaknan

"In the time before time,
There was one being, the Eldest One.
She created all that ever existed."

Tak tali hira ḫune mlilatən rekən netyən lifiś "Šarət"
This is the first verse of a poem called "Creation".

Ŋay nii gatl Thulkhen ngen tleŋ!
/ŋaj niː ɣat͡ɬ ˈtʰulkʰən ᵑɡən t͡ɬəŋ/
1s COP like Tolkien POSS DEF.PLU

It looks like Tolkien!

(Try saying that sentence five times fast! Or even slow, for that matter.)

[KathTheDragon]

Remi þuḫa kayi Tolkin? Re mallət re mlilatən rekən?
Which one looks like Tolkein? The language or the poem?

[masako]

Remi þuḫa kayi Tolkin? Re mallət re mlilatən rekən?
Which one looks like Tolkein? The language or the poem?

netlam uenke omonko
I don't think either of them...

[KathTheDragon]

Wtatko.
I agree.

[bradrn]

Remi þuḫa kayi Tolkin? Re mallət re mlilatən rekən?
Which one looks like Tolkein? The language or the poem?

Yakhaan thaŋ.
/jaˈkʰaːn tʰaŋ/

The poem.

(Well, the poem’s translation, that is.)

[masako]

na nkatak
I do not agree.

uala tolokin nya kue muyapuana tilalon tsalo moyayek
verily Tolkien for like make-deity indicate-PL-ACC clear write-PST-NEG
Tolkien didn't really make overt allusions to any creator-like deity.

[bradrn]

na nkatak
I do not agree.

uala tolokin nya kue muyapuana tilalon tsalo moyayek
verily Tolkien for like make-deity indicate-PL-ACC clear write-PST-NEG
Tolkien didn't really make overt allusions to any creator-like deity.

Qimute waq!
/ʔiˈmute ˈwaʔ/
3s=PST do

He did!

(But what I meant was that the poem’s style seemed Tolkienesque; I’ve never been especially interested in the details of Tolkien’s world at all, and in fact I read LotR so long ago that I can barely even remember much of the plot.)