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i like it. all i have to say is that the first time I heard spoken Polish, it sounded a lot like French to me. I dont really get that impression anymore and I havent heard other people saying it either but there's got to be more to it than them both just having nasal vowels, or i would have said the...

i keep forgetting youre the one who created the Caber logograms ... i know i asked this before, but i think i lost track of it .... since the original thread got deleted, do you have them all collected anywhere online at the moment? Thanks. The original thread wasn't deleted, it's here . Thanks but...

I am aware this is an opinion, but I take offense to that. I worked hard (with the generous input of others) to make Caber, i keep forgetting youre the one who created the Caber logograms ... i know i asked this before, but i think i lost track of it .... since the original thread got deleted, do y...

surprised you added "doubt it" to the list, as i would call that a counterexample.

some other possible counterexamples show up in the past tense .... "loved it!" ... "got it!" ... "crushed it!" .... but only the doubt verb carries inherent 1st person in the present tense.

there's no way to cite a verb in its bare form in Poswa .... nor is there an infinitive. Verb stems require person markers, period. But Ive often thought about using 1st person derived forms to give cute names to animals and even inanimate objects. e.g. the word for bed could be "you come back to me...

it might be a generational thing .... when i was young the Choose Your Own Adventure books were so popular that they had imitations that were also popular. They survived for quite a long time too, maybe thirty years, but lost their hold on the market when the Internet opened up and people realized t...

Icecap Moonshine pàṭēy "wife" (pàt "wife" + ʷ-hēy "woman") tadoh "husband" (tá "husband" + noh "man") This is an extremely high-maintenance language, such that it's taken more work on my part to churn out just these two words than it would for me to add another hundred words to Poswa, even assuming ...

What type of morpheme are the vowels in question, if they are a separate one, and how can they be marked when glossed? I love your avatar. What would each of these forms mean if they were used in bare form, assuming they can be? For example if your verbs end in /-a/, what would a hypothetical word ...

hmmm .... that's interesting. I was the one who wrote the usage notes on that Wiktionary page ... perhaps I need to modify it now. It seems it can be used when it's clear that it's a verb *and* it has a concrete meaning rather than abstract. But "a room with a rabbit in" is still wrong, and "i belie...

The word in almost never appears in clause-final position in the first place .... that might be a reason why that construction does not occur. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in#Adverb suggests it occurs in set phrases rather than standing as an all-purpose adverbial use of the preposition. German ha...

http://www.frathwiki.com/Lilahaa This is conworld-related, but it's for a conworld I wrote about during my childhood which has nothing in common with the fantasy world I write about today .... other than that I allow it to "borrow backwards" from my recent writing to get names, maps, and a few other...

I think "be" did the same thing in Slavic. e.g. "I am loved" (where loved is a participle, not past tense) was their version of "I have loved", and was never considered a passive. Wild guess here .... maybe it comes from a literal interpretation e.g. "i have someone who is loved" ----> " i have love...

:eng: tantrum is not related to tantra , despite Wiktionary tracing both to languages of India. I had always assumed tantrum was a Latin word with tantra as its plural, and attributed the wide semantic gap to the >2000 years which the word has had to evolve since its supposed origin. oh, right ... t...

I may have posted this here before in a less developed form, but I couldnt find it on a search. Women of the Moonshine tribes are taller than their men, in many cases by quite a lot. They give birth to babies weighing an average of twenty to twenty-five pounds, who are already able to crawl and righ...

/t/ > /tl/ happened inside Nahuatl, so its apparent that its the Aztecs who discovered Atlantis.

If you ever do return to the project, I'd add to this just a bit .... It's highly questionable whether the Māori ever actually made it to Antarctica. Evidence against is that: 1) All we have is a single story about a sailor named Ui-te-Rangiora, who may or may not have even existed, 2) The sailor on...

Tentative month names for Leaper and Poswa. From this idea . Leaper names are in dark red, Poswa in green. month 1: Hʷalaxʷēn / Rafaempi month 2: Xawaŋŋol / Šabiu month 3: Kăni / Paviki month 4: Laharil / Rapal month 5: Namĭgi / Nabupo month 6: Tăxa / Tašapo month 7: Matotăhʷ / Tutšupo month 8: Kapa...

I should add that Im just using the term "baptise" in the sense of initiation, as there is probably no water involved whatsoever. But the ritual is there, and a priest is not a priest until they are baptised. The process you're describing sounds like "ordination" (verb: "ordain"), if we're using sa...

A few things I've thought of since two months ago when I wrote the other post: Child marriage : I didnt consider the Moonshines to practice child marriage because, by their definition, boys and girls who move out of their parents' households become adults by so doing. But both boys and girls are usu...

Poswa: taeva , to baptise a priest. People on my planet live close to their gods, so religious terms are typically short words even in languages with small phoneme inventories and heavy inflectional burdens. Most Poswa words have four stems, which could be called the principal parts of the word, as ...