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Nicely done, Lao Kou. What is the etymology of nzhínaníbövers?

I say [khoul] for "coal" and [ˈtʃɔi.ə] for "cholla".

Speaking of chollas, Kankonian has a word for "cholla": zofoz. It also has a word for "teddy bear cholla": zofoz fazash (fazash means "plush").

In the course of innovating a future imperfective, I discovered that "you'll fuck horses all day tomorrow" is alliterative in Pannonian. tau tõrõch trõg čini jõššõns jiäbech / таў тырых трыг чини йышшынс ябеx /tɑu̯ tɨrɨx trɨg tʃini jɨʃʃɨns jiæ̯bex/ The very definition of anecdotal. :?: :?...

A god, lower-case g, usually means male, but God, capital G, can be either male, female or androgynous, depending on what you believe the monotheistic deity is. Rather than "androgynous," I'd say "genderless." But yeah, any of these are possible. I wouldn't say the usage differs...

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Khemehekis wrote:Fascinating! Have any of these Yttuun run across an inverse earthworm lately?

I'm touched! You remembered!

And right now I'm listening to "I remember like yesterday" by Colbie Caillat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWFuHtwPl1c

Ooh! Ooh! I know! Does "terámpa" come from Trump? And "gheḷénbéka" from Glenn Beck? Yup. [:P] Yay! I was right! Also, do you mind guessing the other two root words (HINT: It's also what I think of 2016) "Khelíntuntí" comes from Clinton. It could be applied to Bill &quo...

"Singer" has no gender distinction, does it? I remember in the two-page spread for occupations in the original First Thousand Words books, one of the few women shown in the pictures was to illustrate the word "singer". The feminine form is 'songstress'. So would you accept a sen...

Ooh! Ooh! I know! Does "terámpa" come from Trump? And "gheḷénbéka" from Glenn Beck?

So, are actor, god, singer, waiter, sorcerer, wizard and hero always male? Do I have to find another word when I want to disregard the gender? "Singer" has no gender distinction, does it? I remember in the two-page spread for occupations in the original First Thousand Words books, one of ...

You were all arguing about whether he needs all those cases, more cases, less cases, but one thing i haven't seen anyone question is number. Why must it be singular-plural? Why no dual? Paucal? Singulative? Why bother marking number at all? As with any aspect of the Art, the result comes of whateve...

Head-final compounds just make more sense to me, regardless of the actual branching of the language itself. I know this is only because I speak a language with head-final compounds, but head-initial compounds just break my brain. I can handle things like cases, free word orer, noun-adjective, etc. ...

And for things like "mow in the country song elvira", I haven't the foggiest idea what you're referring to. Maybe he's thinking of the songs that go "Papa oo mow mow" and such? Yes that's exactly right, I just forget not everybody knows how to say that properly, or knows that th...

What about other languages? What about your conlangs? [}:D] From my Kankonian page (copied with edits for Leipzig glossing): To form an appositive, use "zash", meaning "which is" or "who is", between the two nominals: Zhered zash Sean ad is uhwos ad gayam. brother APPO...

(route in my dialect, for instance switches between /ɹuːt/ and /ɹaʊt/ depending on the phase of the moon). In my dialect, it's always /ɹut/. And for things like "mow in the country song elvira", I haven't the foggiest idea what you're referring to. Maybe he's thinking of the songs that go...

S SŬ SLANG EXPRESSION LIKE THE WORD SOW I was thinking this could be "Reap what you sow", but considering all the other English words you're using as examples, I'm going to assume this is "sow" as in female pig. R RŬ ADVERB LIKE THE ROU IN THE WORD ROUTE BUT WITH A TRILLED R In ...

So basically how this game works is one person will post a word in their Germanic Conlang and another person will reply to that post trying to guess what that word means. There's one of these on CWS but I decided to start one here. I'll start first. Language: Faloch Word: Morgonesten IPA: /moʁgones...

Larryrl wrote: It uses the consonants b ch d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w y z

Bot then . . .

The ZHŬ is pronounced like the s in pleasure followed by the ow in cow sort of zhow.

Why didn't you list ZH among your consonants?

Wow! It's been two weeks, with very little activity. Is everyone still digesting the big website? At least we've had one edit: http://inner-bruise.wikia.com/wiki/Inner_Bruise_Wikia#Latest_activity Someone edited it to explain better what a fanfic is. Does anyone here want to "confess" to b...

Chagen wrote: man who am I kidding, who the hell is gonna read all this shit

Well, *I* read the whole thing.

Iyionaku wrote:Also, I would just write "cut.PROG" as I usually regard present tense as default.

In Kankonian, no ending means infinitive or gerund (or irrealis). Present tense is marked by the suffix -as. So I always include PRS when glossing Kankonian.