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Also, have you considered rare flowers as currency? Like tulips?

I just found this wiktionary category: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Proto-Indo-European_roots_by_shape and I thought I list the top ten Proto-Indo-European root shapes listed there just to shows that phonotactics at the morpheme level can be interestingly different from phonotactics at th...

Prepositions are often glossed as cases, e.g. LOC for 'at', ALL for 'to', INSTR for 'with', etc. Conjunctions and stuff like that are sometimes glossed with more specific labels, e.g. DISJ for logical disjunction 'or', CONJ for logical conjunction 'and', C(OMP) for a complememtizer or 'that', etc. A...

Maybe it's the time zone of our admin?

According to Wikipedia, French does something similar with lengthening before some consonants.

I don't know and I would really like to know.

Fredauon Fun Fact #48:
The main godesses of the Wizards' Republic majority religion are Lady Moon and Mother Sun.

Never, I guess. But that's a personal preference.

thethief3 wrote: ↑30 Sep 2024 09:01 [...] extraction of either is mainly achieved through demonstratives or verbal anaphors [...]

How does this work?

So what's the idea?

A Natlang Already Did it Except Slightly Less Bad.

Some German verbs do this. Zerbrechen 'to break' is ambitransitive. In its intransitive form it takes sein 'to be' in the Perfekt (which semantically is a past tense in spoken language), in its transitive form it takes haben 'to have'. Die Vase ist zerbrochen. the.F.NOM vase be.3SG break.PTCP 'The v...

Which would be even closer to your idea, right?

Maybe mages could be a subkind of Sorcerers or Clerics.

That is definitely possible. Some languages even have special morphology to change between dative alignment construction and secundative-like alignment morphology. German be- comes close, though it's not very productive. Ich schenke dem Kind einen Ball. 1SG.NOM give.as.gift the.M.DAT child a.M.ACC '...

I just had a dream (in the morning) where two German celebrities (let's call them K and J) where playing in a game show where they rode motorboat-like yachts in a small-ish body of water in front of a large audience. They needed to capsize the other boat in order to win. The idea was that they would...

A "new" idea; really a rehash of a concept I have toyed with many times. Monosyllabic roots, but the vocabulary is almost entirely made up of disyllabic compounds. Roots are very phonologically minimal - (C)V only - with many polysemous/homophonous items. Compare the usage of compounds to...

I was thinking of Pachystruthio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachystruthio). So 3.5 m instead of 2.75 m, that's 0.75 m bigger.

Fredauon Fun Fact #47:
Giant ostriches are a common mount and beast of burden on Fredauon.

An early Latin loan into Proto-West Germanic. Neat