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(Or at least to imagine one; planning a creative piece is much easier and more enjoyable than the grueling task of producing it...) (Not that it's not fun to write! Just hard sometimes.) Writing The Bittersweet Generation was like that. It was hard work, but I actually had fun writing each of the s...

Man in Space wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024 00:54

Khemehekis wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024 17:13

zyma wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024 15:54 The user formerly known as "shimobaatar".
(she)

Congratulations on your new name! Is it pronounced like "zymurgy" (with /ai/), or like "Zima" (with /i/)?

Caber is going to need a new word.

You're referring to łímo?

Well, I assume you mean that the different projects that you and I have worked on likely reflect our different preferences as conlangers. [:)] Not just preferences, but styles . For one example: when you created Hannaito words for last year's Lexember, one of the things I noticed was that every wor...

I've just received a list of 60,913 words (the lemmata that occurred 7 or more times in my friend's corpus) through the email. Yay! Expect Kankonian's lexicon to start growing very rapidly. Just noticed this when the wordlist is sorted by frequency: 611 goodbye 54178 0.0002 612 newyork 54091 0.0002...

Indeed. Sorry, it wasn't my intention to imply that you hadn't considered the fact that Kankonian is your conlang. Again, I can understand where you're coming from, and of course, the choice is ultimately yours. I didn't mean to imply that you were implying that! Although Hannaito and Kankonian don...

In fact, just last night, I was considering naming my unabridged dictionary of the Kankonian language (if I ever go about publishing it) Zima's Unabridged Kankonian Dictionary . But today I get on and discover that you've changed your screenname to Zyma, I've decided I probably shouldn't use that, ...

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"Bang" -- AJR

The user formerly known as "shimobaatar". (she) Congratulations on your new name! Is it pronounced like "zymurgy" (with /ai/), or like "Zima" (with /i/)? Ah, thank you. I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this, but anyway, I pronounce it as /ˈzimə/ or /ˈzɪmə/, ...

I've just received a list of 60,913 words (the lemmata that occurred 7 or more times in my friend's corpus) through the email. Yay! Expect Kankonian's lexicon to start growing very rapidly.

zyma wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024 15:54 The user formerly known as "shimobaatar".
(she)

Congratulations on your new name! Is it pronounced like "zymurgy" (with /ai/), or like "Zima" (with /i/)?

I'm trying to find out a replacement pun in Finnish but those latinisms are not that common. There are some folk etymologies like Kaukasia -> kauk-Aasia 'far Asia' (people often lengthen the a) but no place is named Kaukafrikka. This counts as a replacement pun, I think. Junamaatti is a thing, an a...

Iyionaku wrote: ↑10 Apr 2024 15:48 Are these AI images?

Arayaz is right! They are!

EDIT: Obligatory link: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Khemehekis

Today I added the entry https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/science_project to Wiktionary. Then I realized Kankonian didn't have a word for "science project"! So a few minutes ago, I invented two new Kankonian words. A science project, in its literal meaning, is zurmeriyalevatz , from zurmeriya...

Scary obsessive fandoms are just as likely to crop up among yinrih as humans, and human culture has its scary obsessive fans among monkey foxes. Yinrih refer to these people as HrBqMqmg, from HrBqg (nerd) + qMqmg (human) i.e. one who is a nerd regarding humans. The word has a neutral connotation am...

Some statistics on tree words from the corpus COCA . "Palm" (#2,693), "oak" (#3,745), and "pine" (#4,012) all make the top 5,000 words in American English. "Maple" (#6,429) and "willow" (#7,341) aren't quite so common, but still make the top 10,000. ...

Kankonian! https://i.imgur.com/a7oV3t2.jpg Bilal Ahmed as makeke efesh. Wan shtaas 13 drertes. Bilal Ahmed PRS boy baby. 3s measure-PRS 13 month-PL Bilal as Irakhik. Wan as weyob, hel oimones blan. Wan anas khatal poikhyar. Bilal PRS Iraqi. 3s PRS bald with iris-PL brown. 3s have-PRS skin olive She...

https://i.imgur.com/a7oV3t2.jpg Bilal Ahmed is a baby boy. He is 13 months old. Bilal is Iraqi. He is bald, with brown eyes. He has olive skin. In this picture, Bilal is wearing a green jacket. https://i.imgur.com/noIIj7X.jpg Caleb Reyes is a little boy. He is 7 years old. Caleb is Filipino. He has...

https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=227451#p227451 It also seems that asexuals are slowly becoming more visible in glossopoeic circles. I can think of at least one asexual conlanger . . . Shm Jay, from the ZBB. I couldn't name too many, though. Do you have any hypotheses as to why queerfolk are so ...

I can identify an oak, a maple (asteroidal leaves!), a willow, a pine, and a palm at sight -- the five tree words I selected for the CBBMLLFPD -- and understand that "Norway spruce" refers to Christmas trees. "Beech" isn't a word North Americans use frequently in the twenty-first...