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Created a wonderfully euphonic Arculese word, guspetharios /xus.pe.'θa.ri.os/ "swordsman" from guspes "sword" + tharios "warrior, knight". I also was able to work on Arculese without feeling like I should go back to Lihmelinyan. It's so hard for me to have a second project. I eventually start thinki...

Noun case can differentiate that in Lihmelinyan: lēmas amíntān warántan sarumárkatran ušēti . man-NOM woman-ACC using-ACC.S.FEM telescope-ACC see-3.SG.PRES The man sees the woman using the telescope (the woman has the telescope). lēmas amíntān waránts sarumárkatran ušēti . man-NOM woman-ACC using-NO...

I've been watching Family Guy. I like when a show as dumb as Family Guy makes reference to a language I've been studying. In this episode, Peter decides he's tired of being stupid and cultivates his intelligence: Peter: I've been studying Sanskrit. Turns out an ancient tongue can be as titillating a...

There are some good examples in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7164

I couldn't think of what to call this phenomenon when I posted that thread, but "Easter eggs" is a good term.

Thanks for explaining. I guess I hadn't thought about what the definition of "preposition" actually is, but looking at it, "than" and "as" fit when used in these ways. It was also a discussion on another site that inspired me to ask this, although prescriptivists saying that "than me" is always 100%...

Okay, fun question relating to English grammar: is "than" a conjunction or a preposition or both? It seems weird to me to describe "than" as a preposition, but that seems to be the case in a sentence like "she is taller than me". Grammarians will just say this is wrong and it should be "she is talle...

Most recent Lihmelinyan word seems to be the noun taíhēr , /ˈtai̯.xeːr/ a masculine r-stem noun (genitive singular tihrés ) which means "master" or "lord". I already have the roots tah-/tih- in other words referring to similar concepts (like tahsánzēr , which means "magistrate" and is also used in a...

The Met's broadcasting an opera by Nico Muhly later this week. I've never heard her, other than a little snippet she wrote for Mozart in the Jungle , but I've heard she's meant to be listenable-to? [that might be why she doesn't make the top 200 list...] I keep forgetting about these broadcasts; I'...

Things like this, things that hint at language not being entirely arbitrary (like all those words referring to "shiny" things that start with /gl/, e.g. glow, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitz, glamor, etc.) always interest me. Steven Pinker's theory is that some basic words referring to more immediate...

There are a lot of instances of reduplication in English where the first element contains /ɪ/ and the second contains some other vowel (often /æ/ or /ɑ/), so-called "ablaut reduplication". For example: wishy-washy, mish-mash, bric-a-brac, pitter-patter, flip-flop, chit-chat, hip-hop, etc. Is there a...

John Adams is the name comes to mind first when I think of modern opera. Also Philip Glass, Adès, Saariaho.

I don't, admittedly, listen to much modern opera. I don't listen to much classical music written after the mid-20th century or so. But I'm always willing to try something new.

Thank you. I was thinking it might be analogy; it just seemed unlikely to me, but I can't think of any other explanation that makes sense!

Whoa, looks like some post-counts are down. And the smilies aren't working. :(

I'm guessing he meant the other Strauss? But of the four notables Strausses (Johann, Johann II, Jozef, and Richard), only Richard Strauss wrote any symphonies - which he wrote as a teenager, were panned, and were never widely performed. [the Alpine Symphony and Symphonia Domestica aren't symphonies...

According to Buck, the nominative singular of n-stem nouns in Oscan is -uf/f. I don't see how this can be. I get that in Sabellic, there was a change of -ns to -f, but in order for this to make sense, this change would've had to occur before Szemerenyi's law and I thought that occurred at the PIE le...

^Elektra is wonderful. I have it on vinyl. Think it's time to listen to it again.

Centrism, with scores near the very middle on every category except economics where I more clearly lean "social".

That's par for the course for me. Other tests label me a centrist as well. I often describe myself as "left-leaning moderate".

Started my Arculese scratchpad. Will post soon.

How do you come up with a cool but simple name for your conlang and conpeople that has zero hits on Google and doesn't sound like any real-life language name or ethnonym or anything like that? EDIT: I mean, after thinking about it, what I want to ask is: can it be justifiable if a conlang's name is...

Thanks for all your answers. [:)] Nice to know I'm not the only one who does this. I can actually speak my conlang fluently, but ofc I don't go talking to myself around other people lol Conversation soundclips: Sample 1 Sample 2 Passage with a reading voice: Example Singing in my conlang? Done that:...