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- 10 Jul 2012 04:41
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Two Kinds of Interrogatives?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3899
Re: Two Kinds of Interrogatives?
An idea for a conlang I've had rattling around the old noggin is instead of having interrogative pronouns, having three interrogative affixes (or particles) and an extensive case system. The three types of questions would be: '"What/what's it called?" asks the other person to answer by sta...
- 20 Dec 2011 21:43
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Difference between say and tell?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3229
Re: Difference between say and tell?
Very similar to what Eldin Raigmore said, the main difference is about the other information conveyed in the sentence. Say doesn't need a recipient of the information. 'I said it into the wind' implied that there was nobody else present, and therefore no recipient of the thing said, but 'I told it i...
- 14 Aug 2011 03:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Pnunskstrimslarkskrak
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3646
Re: Pnunskstrimslarkskrak
Ketadet Bedikep Tadogak, which is and means 'The strict CVC language where all the consonants are plosives' 8-)
- 29 Jul 2011 04:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What are some cases that I could use?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3111
Re: What are some cases that I could use?
There are 96 cases in Ithkuil. Try reading that for inspiration!
- 25 Jun 2011 17:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: My things are mine, your things are yours
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1729
My things are mine, your things are yours
In English we have two forms for most possessive pronouns. ('His' is the only possessive pronoun which has only one form.) My/mine Your/yours Her/hers Our/ours Their/theirs My question is, how would you categorise this distinction, and are there other languages, natural or con, which have the same o...
- 24 Jun 2011 01:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Gender depended vocabulary andor sounds
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3314
Re: Gender depended vocabulary andor sounds
Side not first, and or cant we just make up the word "Anor" to mean can be either one or both while or is jsut either one? :P What? This doesn't make any sense. Why this thread got treated seriously when its first sentence is just a confusing jumble of words, I have no idea. As for the re...
- 18 Jun 2011 04:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1641163
Re: What did you accomplish today?
After a long period of not conlanging at all, last night I put together a simple phonology.
- 18 Jun 2011 00:27
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: You keep using that word...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7086
Re: You keep using that word...
:eng: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. :dan: Du bliver ved med at bruge det ord. Jeg tror ikke det betyder det, du tror, det betyder. :swe: Du använder alltid det där ordet. Jag tror inte det betyder det du tror det betyder. :nor: Du bruker det ordet stadig....
- 18 Jun 2011 00:01
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: A Philosophical Quote from a great man
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5557
Re: A Philosophical Quote from a great man
:eng: If you put your penis on something, it's officially yours; no other man can eat it. :swe: Om du lägger din penis på något, är det officiellt ditt; ingen annan man kan äta det. :nor: Om du legger penisen din på noe, er det offisielt ditt; ingen annen mann kan spise det. :nld: Als je je penis er...
- 25 May 2011 14:51
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1012709
Re: Language practice thread
:pol: Ona jest najpiękniejszą kobietą, którą kiedykolwiek zobaczyłem, ale nie wiem jak z nią nawet rozmawiać. :fin: Hän on kaunein nainen, jonka olen ikinä nähnyt, mutten edes osaa puhua hänen kanssa. :nor: Hun er den vakrest kvinnen som jeg har engang sett, men jeg vet ikke hvordan å snakke med hen...
- 18 May 2011 01:09
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The '-ing' suffix
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1580
The '-ing' suffix
I was just thinking about all the different uses the suffix 'ing' has in English. 1. When used with the auxiliary verb 'to be', it gives the progressive tense of a verb. eg: He's singing a song. 2. It turns a verb into an adjective which describes someone or something which fits the subject of the i...
- 10 May 2011 18:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What language does Google Translate think your conlang is?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 30320
Re: What language does Google Translate think your conlang i
Surely that's closer to Faroese?Thakowsaizmu wrote:Æk bødo þær. Þú duxtat. Æk skalo staiga. I naxtum skainæþ sunon ikè.
Clearly English.
- 08 May 2011 17:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Game!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17261
Re: Conlang Game!
paecutʰ nɛ ia-ni ɮeŋ ʑɔɲɛɾ no-makʰ eɲu source what POS-1st pleasure to.have.sex INS.llama INT What is the source of my pleasure of having sex with llamas? Trí vjokk hjuin dreix llingvjähä eipo k'djonn sełnea infeng kohy sqalh päke. By the time I had woken up I was already twenty minutes late for work.
- 08 May 2011 01:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Game!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17261
Re: Conlang Game!
How should this one be understood? Is it an expression? What type of 'joint' are we talking about?
- 06 May 2011 01:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Word Order Favorites
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5853
Re: Word Order Favorites
I personally favour OSV because that's the way I often think, which is strange since I don't know a language (besides a few phrases in Turkish) which uses it. I sometimes even find myself using OSV when speaking English.
- 05 May 2011 02:55
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Sorry, I don't speak...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 40958
Re: Sorry, I don't speak...
:eng: Sorry, I don't speak English. Do you speak Spanish? :deu: Entschuldigung, Ich spreche kein Deutsch. Sprechen Sie/sprichst du Englisch? :swe: Förlåt, Jag talar inte Svenska. Talar du Engelska? :nor: Beklager, jeg snakker ikke norsk. Snakker du engelsk? :esp: Lo siento, no hablo español.¿Habla u...
- 05 May 2011 02:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Game!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17261
Re: Conlang Game!
Actually I just realised what they were just after I asked. I'll try that tomorrow. It's late and my brain isn't fully in gear.
- 05 May 2011 02:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Game!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17261
Re: Conlang Game!
What are they? :-sxinda wrote:triconsonantal roots
- 05 May 2011 02:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Game!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17261
Re: Conlang Game!
aummyēh́led myh́englet oummyih́lied myh́englet atí, imh́alk anuahae. A writer writing an essay is not a writer who writes a book. aum-my-ēh́led myh́englet oum-my-ih́lied myh́englet atí, imh́alk anua-hae essay-write-GER.AFF writer book-write-GER.NEG writer to.be, GNO OBJ-FOC ('OBJ-FOC' means 'object ...
- 04 May 2011 22:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Game!
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17261
Re: Conlang Game!
ma kowake tyd n-kowake tan-kwoketsad mank-lheek-awad
1st see.IND 2nd NEG-see.ING GEN-monster two-head-POS
(the possessive marker marks the possessee, not the possessor)
Gvior unnä kqiis to eftaa xrÿ kmeppa uveři odyk xresl.
Now you understand why oral sex is forbidden on the planet Gvior.
1st see.IND 2nd NEG-see.ING GEN-monster two-head-POS
(the possessive marker marks the possessee, not the possessor)
Gvior unnä kqiis to eftaa xrÿ kmeppa uveři odyk xresl.
Now you understand why oral sex is forbidden on the planet Gvior.