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If you decide to go with this idea, I'd be interested to see if you'd create metaphors with inanimate objects acting on human beings to express concepts that we'd handle differently in English, since the resulting sentences would be shorter by perhaps two syllables. To start with a simple idea, wou...

Left turns at an intersection are dangerous and a major cause of accidents *here* and probably also *there*.

Fredauon Fun Fact #39 The New Capital City of the Wizard Republic was planned in the Era Of Isolation and the Era of Reconciliation with private motorized vehicles in mind. The city features no four-way intersections, no left turns, only one-way streets and lots of bridges. Since it is mostly inhab...

How about crossing marked nominative alignment with split ergativity? Let's say the split is based on animacy. Animate subjects and inanimate objects of transitive verbs would be marked with the direct (?) case. Wece-sung tuba-sung diku. woman-DIR stone-DIR admire. The woman admires the stone. Both...

zyma wrote: ↑07 May 2024 21:02 Well, it's not because of anything having to do with the board itself. I just tend to use up most of my time and energy elsewhere, I guess.

I really identify with this statement.

/p t k kʷ/<p t c cw> /f θ s ʂ ɕ x xʷ/<f cz ci s cj ch cv> /t͡s ʈ͡ʂ t͡ɕ/<ce cr cy> /m n ŋ ŋʷ/<m n ng nw> /l j w/<l j w> /r/<r> /i iː y yː u uː/<i i' ü û u ú> /e eː o oː/<e é o ó> /a aː/<a á> <e> and <i> are written as <ë> and <y> after <c>, <ci>, and <ce>. Next: /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ/ /b ɓ t d ɗ c ɟ ʄ k ɠ q ɢ...

How about crossing marked nominative alignment with split ergativity? Let's say the split is based on animacy. Animate subjects and inanimate objects of transitive verbs would be marked with the direct (?) case. Wece-sung tuba-sung diku. woman-DIR stone-DIR admire. The woman admires the stone. Both ...

Fredauon Fun Fact #38
Common trees on Fredauon include Ginkgo trees, Seal Trees, Scale Trees, Ferns, Seed Ferns, Cycads, and Conifers.

I see from your descriptions that our tastes differ considerably (I also like science fiction/fantasy/superhero stuff but I really need some action scenes in order to be happy in addition to stuff that makes me ponder or something new. And I get weirded out by most crime shows and political drama.) ...

My first guess:
otekjō

Maybe it's better to just stay inside.

I guess that depends on the height that the aeroplankton occurs in. When it's higher up, people will see it but not feel it. I was thinking of it being closer to the dust in the Sahara Air Layer *here*. If it comes down on an inhabited area, it might cause problems for people with asthma or allergie...

Fredauon Fun Fact #37 Certain parts of Fredauon are very rich in aeroplakton. This includes several species of balloning animals, such as small flying spiders, mites and caterpillars, as well as roundworms, and spores of quillwort trees and ferns. During certain seasons this areal phenomenon is hig...

I don't think a benefactive case is the case used for the 'giver', that should be a pegative case, IINM. The case used for a recipient is the dative case.

My guess is that there were lots of bots on that day, maybe even spambots. Maybe it was the time when spambots discovered kitchen-sink (conlangs) and tried to sell us kitchens?

[...] Syntax and inflection [...] E [noun] [verb] , means [verb]ing noun, and e [verb] [noun] means [verb]ed [noun]. For example, e pas ihl (REL dog it-greet) means dog that greets , and e ahli pas (REL I-greet-it dog) means dog that I greet . [...] I like this part. Word order as the distinguishin...

/ɛ ɔ/ are lax mid vowels and /e o/ are tense mid vowels.

For me, it looks like symbols from several different scripts. Maybe Hangeul mixed with some Japanese script?

Neat, I wouldn't have guessed the Afro-Asiatic stuff but it certainly makes sense. Ah, all of them are also Chadic and most of them are Central Chadic aka Biu-Mandara. Might be a genetic effect as the two segments are also reconstructed for Proto-Central Chadic per this list: https://en.m.wiktionary...

The post on adjectives made me realize that large parts of this should not go in the nominal symtax part and should probably be added to the section on copular clauses. I also decided that complex adjectival attributive construction (the very big man, the proud-of-his-son dad, the larger-than-me wom...