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qwed117 wrote:"I, Madam, I Made Radio. So I Dared. Am I Mad? Am I?"

That's perfectly normal grammar.

Nice palindrome! However, my personal favourite will always be "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!", and you will never persuade me otherwise.

I'm off on holiday till Thursday, so updates will be less frequent until then and I may be unable to type IPA. [:)] Have fun! [:D] Thanks! I'm back from Anglesey, which was fun, but there was little sun so didn't get any beach days! [:(] Aul-tu ai lidour caç juir! This is almost correct! - the impe...

Well, before you settle on the alternative future, it's probably best to iron out Boralian's conhistory and figure out which Germanic languages were most influencing Boralian when. The volēre + infinitive construction is pretty old, attested as early as the first or second century. In Romanian, the...

Simple Present Tense - An Introduction This tense is used to descibe states or habitual actions, much like the simple present tense in English. "I like cake." "I go for walks every day." Regular -air verbs Deriving from Latin verbs in -āre, these form the majority of verbs in Bo...

I'm really going to keep my eyes on this thread! What you've done so far with the verbal morphology is really great; it's like looking at the very edge of Romance. I particularly love the preservation of all four Latin infinitives. One topic I haven't seen brought up regarding the future tense: you...

This though, is quite nice, taking a few features from neighbouring languages (syllabic consonants, final consonant devoicing) without further forcing it down the route to a Germanic-esque language, fitting it in as part of an areal feature [:)] Definitely going as well as I was hoping it would [:)...

I've just realised that the whole /sk/ > /x/ shenanigans means I get to have fun with reflexes of Lain -esc-, found for example in French nous finissons from finir . I've decided that I totally need this up in my -ír verbs. Take Latin finire: finio, finis, finit finimus, finitis, finiunt Normally, t...

Let's see what happens to *scribere, shall we? jo scrif /d͡ʒɔxˈɾɪf/ nos scrivm /nɔxˈɾivn̩/ (Okay fine, I was convinced to put in syllabic nasals.. ) i scrivraf /ˌɪxɾɪvˈɾaf/ "He will write" Me like? Maybe. What does everyone think? I personally like the way this looks/sounds, but it's up t...

Just an idea, but if you want to add some post-alveolar fricatives without making the language sound too "palatal", perhaps you could carry out the intervocalic changes you mentioned, but then have the post-alveolar fricatives become velar or something similar when not before front vowels...

I like this, it sounds so different from most Romance languages with the lax/tense vowel distinction and lots of final consonant clusters. I would add an /ʃ/ to the language and probably an /x/, /ɣ/ and/or /ʍ/ though, and possibly allow syllabic consonants, just to make it even less Romance-like. T...

I really like how all of this looks! You've definitely succeeded in making a Romance language that doesn't sound like a "typical" Romance language, if you ask me. The non-sibilant dental fricatives in particular are a cool phonological feature. I agree that this seems very well thought-ou...

Diachronics: In Examples Let's consider the VL verb *abére "to have". (words will be written phonetically, not according to the orthography) ábio, abémus I have, we have abébam, abebámus I was having, we were having ábuit, abuémus I had, we had abére ábio, abére abémus I have to have, we ...

I find it interesting that you turned -āre to -air, considering Romansh did that with -ēre (romansh keeps all four infinitives as ar/air/er/ir, but the conjugations are pretty much identical for all) Yeah, the regular derivatives of -āre/-ēre/-ere/-īre will be -air/-eir/-r/-ír, pronounced [e], , []...

Verbs: Imperfect Tenses (Note: still only regular -air verbs!) Simple Imperfect This tense is used to indicate repeated or habitual actions in the past, or past states. Like English "used to", it carries the implicature that the action or state no londer holds. nos vardavau meijour speida...

Well first, I want to start off by saying that it really looks like you know what your plan is for this conlang, and I really like a diachronic posteriori conlangs, especially ones that fit in with their surroundings and yet still come off as interesting and well thought-out. Cheers! [:D] Now, as f...

Verbs Verbs inflect for person and number, although in the singular the forms for most verbs are identical. Boralian linguisticcs recognise two categories of verb form in the indicative: simple and compound. The simple verb forms are made up of pronoun + verb, while the compound forms are pronoun +...

I have recently started work on a Romance language spoken on the fictional island of (tentatively) Ílborail, located in the North Sea, north of Belgium. The conceit, as I've said in another thread, goes like this: I imagine it would have been colonised shortly after Britain - as it is much smaller, ...

jo t'aif deiç letr scrit. /d͡ʒo ˈtef dɪt͡ʃ ˈlɛt skɾɪt/ I've written thee ten letters. [tick] My notes say "I wrote ten letters to you. [:)] I took aif...scrit to be "have written". Scrit is obviously a past participle. Otherwise might have expected jo t(e) deiç letr scri or similar, ...

Ah. Que Deo velet / Ojalá! You have to admit that jurschen is pretty ungothroughsome! Jur- is pretty clearly jour- / diur(n)-. Ah, "ungothroughsome" = "impenetrable" *he understands as he quotes* [:D] Yeah, I was thinking maybe jursuen ? It just looks nicer - VL sequere will be ...

Thy Romance Powers are strong. Please teach me, Master! Pot jo doçr ch'i'n schir? [:O] I can't quite work out what you're saying, but it's very gratifying to see someone else using your conlang! I'm getting "Can I XXX that it doesn't follow?", which would be said: Ver ch'jo pous doçr ch'i...