Conlang fluency thread

[jal]

Ray ray. Dis pwaym a fi sway sway fo-yu mekop langwic, no fi ray palaba an bakl.
Exactly. This topic is meant for practicing your conlang, not for actual discussing.


JAL

[masako]

No, apparently we must all write what masako wants to read.

So much for the idea of participating in this thread...

shum wakti?
Why are you crying?

niyisha nai mula eleno baheshba
My comment was only meant to be a joke.

[jal]

My comment was only meant to be a joke.

Olso, im ja soso pikop.
Also, it was just an observation.


JAL

[masako]

My comment was only meant to be a joke.

Olso, im ja soso pikop.
Also, it was just an observation.

buna nelama!
This is very true!

[Pedant]

Anausy’ ustrarru, jhakkara vapku tu hap’ ārguptar guppe!
Anausi help me, I’m gone for fifteen minutes and everyone’s fighting about philosophy!

[masako]

pale! kawequkla.
Calm down! We aren't fighting.

[akam chinjir]

miwasu, kiwi kajani na ki pilausapi ukatai=su ukatai
no 3p activity DS DET philosophy quarrel=FOC quarrel
No, they are fighting about fighting about philosophy

(I don't really have and don't plan to develop a word for philosophy in Akiatu, pilausapi will have to do. Though it's a bit tempting to say kiwi kajani na ki ukatai ukatai=su ukatai, in the hopes that that could be understood to mean they are quarrelling about quarrelling about quarrelling. But among other things, I don't really have a handle on nominalisation yet.)

Also:

na ki kajani na ki pilausapi ukatai ukatai wai, ikau pilausapi=su
DS DET activity DS DET philosophy quarrel quarrel TOP just philosophy=FOC
Their fighting about fighting about philosophy is philosophy.

[Pabappa]

Šarbepo fumbe, wataežabo!
I like your new name!

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Šarbepo fumbe, wataežabo!
I like your new name!

Dē wiessē?
Whose?

[HazelFiver]

Fiufor ai ši fiufor, los i voifes josgil.
should-be-INF-IMPERS xor NEG1 should-be-INF-IMPERS that.PROX FOC EVID-be-PRS-3s.PROX question
To be or not to be, that is the question (I think).

Lejemi pa qfou arasd o hab
want-PRS-1s NONSPEC house red and tall
I want a house that is red and tall

Obaus o evlo fong ësgrab
blue and green like crow
Blue and green* like the crow

O cše gu kjen, unôm šov fjos
and many PART dog, 10⁹₁₆-10³₁₆ COM f₁₆
And many dogs, 1,000,00f₁₆/4,294,967,311₁₀**

Hîs o cafix, o fsu olos.
white and orange and all world
White and orange, and the whole world.

*This phrase actually means "fully blue and fully green", which is not possible. Yes it's complete nonsense.
**I used a calculator.

Was there a topic? I need a word for topic...

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Yes it's complete nonsense.

Ji nam dē voggsgys oss, mar oss mi dygnē pratt ji gottig vragghyts ferr...
You may call it nonsense, but I think you are telling us divine truths...

[Pabappa]

O cše gu kjen, unôm šov fjos
and many PART dog, 10⁹₁₆-10³₁₆ COM f₁₆
And many dogs, 1,000,00f₁₆/4,294,967,311₁₀**

wavabo
lol

Šarbepo fumbe, wataežabo!
I like your new name!

Dē wiessē?
Whose?

akam chinjir šarbattšel.
akam chinjir name-3p-TRANSL-3p.past
Akam chinjir changed their name.

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Napombi šafob labbeži, meppešebos, wappes tappamaežombo. Pypopel pubapiel, walpwopel, pupiebwopi.
spruce-LOC-1p.past snow-3p-INSTR dump-3p.PASS.PAST, hide.under-1p.GEN, duck-GEN save.file-1p-DAT-1p. phone-1p-ACC-3p.PAST drench-3p.PAST, angry-1p-CAUS-3p.PAST, pee.standing.up-1p.PAST-CAUS-1p.PAST
A spruce tree dumped its snow on me when I was hiding under it to take pictures of ducks. It got my phone wet, and made me mad, so I peed on the tree.
(only i would write this, i know. A narrower translation would have the last part as "I peed on it", but Poswa's grammar makes it clear what the object is, whereas with English, "it" could either refer to the tree or the phone.)

[akam chinjir]

au sai iti hau=su
oh EXCL AFF 1s=FOC
Oh! It's me.

ikau pamatu i sama
right grateful DAT 2s
Thank you!

hau hwika... maimija ahiwa tapiru mawa
1s only nothing one add find(PFV)
I just added a space.

(I don't remember why, but when I first signed up for the site, I didn't think to put in the space, but it was always meant as two names. Also Akiatu has no word for an orthographic space, I repurposed maimija nothing.)

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Oss ji nikktitiss givugt hypē, iss jiess nam dē zelligē bizyt.
If you added nothing, your name stayed the same.

[akam chinjir]

The intended reading was more like I added a single nothing, though; I thought of marking maimija ahiwa one nothing as focus (=su) to make it clearer, but decided that wouldn't be right.

(Though I'm not really sure it counts in a language's favour if it gives you easy ways to use indefinite pronouns as referring expressions.)

[masako]

mute yemamak!
be.happy-2s eat-AUG-COM
Enjoy the feast!

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Zyt dē a gúl?
Is there a feast?

[Zaarin]

Bi-ʾamriqa ʾīs yūm qaddīs.
in America there.is day holy
[biʔɑmˈr̺ikʼə ˈʔiːs̪ ˈjuːm kʼɑd̪ˈd̪iːs̪]

In America it's a holiday.

[Nortaneous]

Merkadami bandqi dzgacho zqate je dzazo dzqaram mezgemashi im lyabrim dzexas me axa ta.
[ˈmerkadami baˈndʁi ˈdzɣatʃo ˈzʁate dʒe ˈdzazo dzʁaˈrã mezgeˈmaʃ‿ĩ ˈjabrĩ ˈdzexas m‿aˈxa ta]
Today is a feast day for the Americans, to celebrate when our ancestors learned to grow corn.

[jal]

Mi in me fasm it a foh de afta las pos ina dis yahn.
I can't believe it's been four days since the last post in this thread.


JAL