The CBB

Getting ready for NaNoWriMo this year. Personally I always struggle get above 2 pages a day, so I'm intimidated by the ~1700 words per day I will need. Anyone done NaNo in the past? I've never completed NaNoWriMo, but I've attempted it twice and both times allowed to get started on a significant no...

Te sárdami rin zábresi. Zábre mélgin Lihmelīnyās!

not understand-1.SG.PRES. what-ACC say-2.SG.PRES say-IMPER language-ACC Lihmelinya-GEN

Literally: I understand not what you say. Speak the tongue of Lihmelinya!

Well, so...back to the topic

The Dákrā Sea is named after my childhood mishearing of "aristocracy" as the name of a body of water: the Eris Dakra Sea. lol. There's nothing particularly aristocratic about this body of water, but that is its name nonetheless.

^This just makes me feel that my own dreams are so very mundane. But even then I can differentiate between a few dream types. One, the most common, that take place in familiar locations or what I recognize to be familiar locations (my house, my school, my vacation home, my grandparents' house, my ne...

I had a language-related dream last night. I was in high school and observing an awards ceremony. One student received an award for solving this complicated word problem but it was revealed he hadn't actually finished it. I took a look at the sheet, thinking maybe I could solve it. The assignment wa...

Awesome I came out as bisexual in high school. I knew there was nothing to risk in doing so because my parents had already said they would love me if I was gay or even trans. That's the kind of message I want to signal to my kids so they won't feel apprehensive about coming out if they need to.

Nouns To dive head-first into the grammar, I'll bring up the usual noun-declension stuff. First, Lihmelinyan doesn't really have "declensions" to speak of in the Latin sense. I organize nouns based on their stem. The groups, roughly, are: a/e-stem (thematic), ā-stem, i-stem, u-stem, consonant-stem,...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑08 Oct 2020 19:43 Where can we see more?

Thanks for bumping this. I'm gonna post more. This conlang is so awesome that my other attempts at conlangs don't even come close. So I definitely want to add more content. :)

Thanks. I had always found it confusing. I also found this on Quora: "In poem and song lyrics sometimes the writer uses "yuku". For example the song from Ikimonogakari 歩いていこう (read: aruite yukou). What's more bizzare is that the lyrics is written in the hiragana form いこう but they read it as ゆこう (yuk...

So what's the difference between "iku" and "yuku" in Japanese (i.e. the verb "to go"). I was looking at song lyrics and saw in the lyrics the word is written いこう (ikou) but the singer clearly says "yukou". Are they just completely interchangeable?

That's good to know. You can also use alt codes but this requires a dedicated number-pad and doesn't work in every program. WinCompose is helpful for say, writing Dvorak's name (Dvořák) in a music program. Even the Mac's built-in capabilities can't produce ř without going into the Character Viewer o...

Just a random thought: I mainly use a Mac when doing conlang stuff because it's so easy to type accented characters on a Mac (as simple as holding down "e" and then pressing "5" to get an e with a macron). Because Lihmelinyan accents every stressed vowel and uses macrons for long vowels, this had be...

Yeah, /ç/ seems to be one of those that's almost always an allophone (of /h/ or /x/ usually).

Thank you for the answers. It's been helpful [:)] It's good to know that it isn't unheard of. My intent with making the particles similar in form is to suggest that they are etymologically related and were presumably at one point a single form. Lihmelinyan also has an etymologically unrelated prohib...

Does it make any sense to have a negative particle only for irrealis verbs? It's my understanding that Ancient Greek has this with μή, but I wasn't sure if that was the exact situation. Lihmelinyan has two forms of "not": te and ta te is for indicative ta is for subjunctive/optative ánkei te héti = ...

Sound and euphony are important to me. I choose sounds that I like (e.g. I like final consonants to be limited mainly to /n/, /s/, /r/, and vowels, I like clusters like /nt/, /nk/, and I like geminate /t:/ and /l:/, etc.) I don't use sounds that I myself cannot pronounce and I like my conlangs to ha...

^Happy Birthday to both of you. Didn't know you were so young, GoshDiggity.

My birthday is October 7th and I'll be 20 this year.

Lihmelinyan is primarily based on PIE reconstructions by Sihler and Ringe and takes special influence from Hittite. Sanskrit has also been an influence.

Arculese is also based on PIE, but on later PIE and specifically Italo-Celtic. It takes influence from Latin, Gaulish, and Sabellic.

elemtilas wrote: ↑02 Sep 2020 23:05 Rinat Ibagrimov, formerly of the London Symphony Orchestra, and quite possibly one of the awesomest bassists ever, died today.

Hear the music of the profound deeps!

And another.

Thanks for posting that. The double bass is underrated and I so seldom hear it as a solo instrument.

Happy Birthday CBB! 🥳 I can't stand my username, for instance. It's something a 15-year-old came up with on the spot without putting much thought into. [:D] Heh, I was 15 when I joined too and my username is very much a reflection of that. There's not a lot I would do differently although I'd be mor...