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The link in the Name Change thread to the post actually about how to change one’s nick says I am not authorized to read the forum.

Wow, these are some badass names. Are all their names like that? [+1] Frequently, yes. Personal names native to CT tend to be nominalized sentences and have a bias towards the grandiose, e.g. Éðenḫuúühé: Éðenḫuúühé éðen ḫuú ü hé drive wind DEF 3 SG 'he rides the wind' The major difference is that p...

I was typesetting some stuff set in Twin Aster for a creative exercise given me by my mentor, and I discovered the font's character support is lacking (I really, really like the TT Marxiana family in a two-column setup. It's super neat), so I have decided to redo the romanization of CT (as it's the ...

elemtilas wrote: ↑16 Jan 2021 01:02Gary was a regular on Conlang-L ages ago.

And he had an absolutely wonderful list of derivational operations.

C 0 in some notations also means at least 0 consonants (maximally 1 is implied usually), i.e. the consonant is optional. That would make sense for the Afar pattern, if I recall the data correctly. Not sure about the specific notation in PBase though. In the Index Diachronica it means “a specific/th...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑25 Dec 2020 09:09 Guzhiet Navidad!



Here's a holiday quiz for all of you. Which Christmas carol reverses the animacy hierarchy for all the verses except the last?

I initially thought “The 12 Days of Christmas” (“my true love gave to me”), but then I realized all the verses are like that.

Khemehekis wrote: ↑24 Dec 2020 05:54http://klingon.wiki/En/NewWordsQepHom2020

Thank you!

Khemehekis wrote: ↑23 Dec 2020 03:32 Meanwhile, here are a bunch of new words!

What’s the source on these?

I actually think I'm going to switch up the last two entries in the planet list…3.2 AU is pretty close to the maximum stable orbital distance around Xi Boo A, per the august Dr. Wik E. Pedia, so I figure it makes sense that maybe nothing got big enough to clear the neighborhood. Also there's evidenc...

I was back in high school and my parents couldn’t pick me up until 11:00 PM. There was also something about me building an observation tower to look at the Moon, which somehow became me actually visiting it (I remember a huge crater; the Moon was much like its depiction in A Trip to the Moon ). Then...

I should probably write some about CT measure words. I want CT to have a rich supply of measure words. These will in some descendants turn into a classifier or noun-class system. Notably they all end in a nasal n which assimilates to a following consonant. This list will probably be expanded later a...

Doing some work on calculating certain cycles… One solar day on Ítöð is about 26.12 hours. A year is 253.10 days, or about three-quarters of an Earth year. There is also a variability cycle in the magnitude of Xi Boo A of about 9.31 local days; three of these works out to almost 28 days. I am theref...

So Tim Ar is plural. What about the other people names? Are they collectives, or can they be pluralised according to the rules found in this post? They're sort of indeclinable non-verbs. You could say, for instance, áʕe Kán hé 'he is Caber', or you could say taĝkei áłaʕ Kán ü 'the Caber (people) su...

Plurals in CT operate by one of a few mechanisms. There are three typical methods, depending on the shape of the word: Metathesis , decomposition , and a pluralizing particle . Metathetic plurals only occur with the five cardinal vowels a e i o u (in either tone) and in words beginning with a conson...

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑09 Oct 2020 08:18Next:

shònu, pl. sháno
An inanimate countable noun

statue, monument, cairn, monolith, pole, post, marker

Next: ʕéek (an adverb)

EDIT : Ha! Linguifex no longer has the cyclist avatar! Yep, the Pogostick Man from Happy Wheels has been replaced by the word "Caber" in Caber. So that's what your alternate name Pogostick Man means? The cyclist guy with the helmet? Can't say I'm familiar with Happy Wheels . It is a…I guess at its ...

I completely suck at being timely and consistent with challenges like these. For the language, let's go with CT. Lexember 1: CT tïhki [tɯ̀hkì] ( pl. ituhki [ìdùhkì]) 'tunic, shirt' Lexember 2: CT łámágn [ɬǽmǽɣn̩] 'ocean water' (which is red on Ítöð, as opposed to fresh water, which is blue) Lexember...

This is sort of a housekeeping post, primarily for my own organization but others could use it if they're curious. [*] Taltic (sorry, it's a ZBB link) "The requested topic does not exist." Needs to go to https://www.verduria.org/ instead. Perhaps https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=605&p=2...

I have been reëvaluating where Ítöð is located. It requires the following: - G-type primary, or reasonably close option - Projected age of at least 2 Gyr, preferably 3 – 6 Gyr - Wide binary or similar system - No currently-detected extrasolar planets that would wreck the habitable zone - < 100 ly di...