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Don't slap yourself, it's the natural course of a language. :P

It just means English in 300 years will have a lot of VERY strange constructions.

Natlengua suena extraño. Pero si es correcto lo usaré.
Natlengua sounds strange. But if it's correct I'll use it.

对，因为我住在上海，所以现在十一点四十分.
Yeah, because I live in Shanghai, right now it's 11:40.

Hm, lo siento. Pens aba que habrías tenido que usar 对 porque es una pregunta si ese es correcto o incorrecto. Tendría que ir a preguntarle a la gente en la calle ...:P "Local" är en plats och "camino" är en väg. Acabo de levantarme, y no ha tomado un café. Usualmente lo sabería....

This probably has to do with phonotactics or something similar...ie. It's easy to elide the /h/ in "have" In the end you're only saying /'ai.d@v/. But in "I would not, you're trying to follow the same rules as "didn't", ie. elide the /o/ in /not/. It's unnatural, at least in...

Hm, lo siento. Pensé que debe usar 对 porque es una pregunta si ese es correcto o incorrecto. Debo ir al camino y preguntar a los locales...:P

Hm, sorry. I thought you should use 对 because it's a question whether it's correct or incorrect. I should go to the street and ask the locals...:P

Trailsend wrote: 应该说，”一部叫Prometheus的电影“，对不对？

Thakowsaizmu wrote: 是一部科幻的电影。
it's a sci-fi movie

¿Si, pero nos asustará?
Yes, but will it scare us?

¿7 mil millones libras? Y imagino que el mejor de esta montaña de dinero ha puesto hacia el aniversario...ridículo. 7 billion pounds? And I imagine that the majority of this mountain of money has been put towards the jubilee...ridiculous. ¿Si tuvierais £7 mil millones, que con lo haceríais? If you ...

Cuanto dinero tiene la monarquía de inglaterra? Parece muchísimo si puede pagar por este "jubilee".

How much money does the monarchy of England have? It seems like a ton if they can pay for this jubilee.

Thank you to those who helped.

I reworked the phonology of Kranheiŋ to (attempt) to be more interesting. Additionally, I changed the way in which tense works. I hope to, in the next week or so, work into progressive verbs, as well as nouns and such so that I can begin translating the graded sentences.

A mi me interesa que francés y otras lenguas cambian los nombres de lugares...Cuando yo era pequeño pensaba que solo chino lo cambia, pero español y francés lo hace siempre. Mire a nombres de personas...John a Juán, etc. It interests me how French and other languages change the names of places...Whe...

Mandarin does something like this; a lot of verbs that you'd think would be transitive have mandatory objects. E.g., Shui4 jiao4 sleep.VERB sleep.OBJECT sleep This is a question I have because I've been studying it in Mandarin class lately. Mandarin has certain words (or particles, perhaps) that ar...

I've decided that, to make it more unique and interesting, I'm going to change quite a bit of Granheim. First and foremost, the phonology. This will be the new phonology: [p t c k q] -- <p t c k q> [n ŋ] -- <n ŋ> [ʀ] -- <r> [f s ç~x h] -- <f s x h> [ɑ i ɛ ə ɔ u] - <a i e v o u> (C)(r)V(V)(N)(FC/C) W...

How common/rare are palatal plosives and fricatives?
Is it too unrealistic to have velar-uvular distinctions?
Also, how many fricatives would you call too many, in terms of what's realistic and commonplace?

Maximillian wrote: Like "roses are red, violets are blue"? Then you're looking for gnomic tense/aspect. It is not a mood.

Ah, thank you sir. I'll edit that up above.

Hey guys. I don't know if anyone remembers me, but back in 2010 and maybe a bit of 2011 I was actively a member of this board. I created a lang called "Roman Georgian" (Which arguably failed). I'm coming to the beginners' corner because I had never learned or used anything complex enough t...

You could find a way to use stress. The more "important" or common cases would have set endings, whereas changes in stress placement indicate different cases or variations of the common cases. For example, /tarxa'no/ could be the "towards" case, as you mentioned, while /tar'xano/...

The Shanghainese dialect of Chinese. And Cantonese, for that matter. And the accent of Shanghainese people when they speak Mandarin...*shudders*

Ossicone wrote:Nope. But maybe you should. ;-)

'Zas amjatiak. / As amjatiak zuri.'

I don't know much about the language, I just remember the thread you had where you were making the script. Do you have a page where I can read up on it?

This won't die. I keep thinking about this lang and now I have to work on it. The theme of this language will be that the verb is carried as an affix on every noun. The reasoning for this is because, as I said before, this is a "magic" language, which will contain many complicated "sp...