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- 17 Sep 2020 22:34
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: If you were to write one novel...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 15725
Re: If you were to write one novel...
Several times, in fact, I've thought of a story, then thought about the setting so much that I lose interest in writing the story... This chimes with me. I don't exactly lose interest in writing the story, I just get distracted by aspects of conworlding that are relevant to the story and dive so de...
- 17 Sep 2020 17:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XII - FINISHED!!
- Replies: 238
- Views: 77260
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)
I would hypothesise that mistranslations go through a cycle: coherent > incoherent > coherent Or more accurately: fraying > patching > reworking > fraying In phase 1, the text is more or less coherent. Translators feel confident in translating fairly directly. However, over time oddities build up, ...
- 17 Sep 2020 17:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XII - FINISHED!!
- Replies: 238
- Views: 77260
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)
Tune in next time for more Relay ShenanganryTM! Just want to chime in my thanks to Jackk. This was really fun - it has felt like an epic journey continuingly checking in throughout lockdown to find out how far we have got, anticipating the results. I know Jackk has been on call for any queries for ...
- 10 Sep 2020 15:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Phrase Building
- Replies: 60
- Views: 21444
Re: Phrase Building
next: They have lived their whole lives by gathering firewood. Peoppaeq: su tuhleondao a peoppoan naffahkiqqyeh. [su ˈt̪ux͜ɬʲʊ̃d̪aʊ ɐː ˈpʲʊpːʷãːɴ ˈnɐfːaʰcɨɢᶭɛh] PAST ((life-3.AN)-all) ESS (tale-foot) (((plant-big)-child)-fire) 'His/her/their entire life/reality was a story of walking (for) fire sti...
- 31 Aug 2020 15:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 27327
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
My newest word in Ethi is šermo 'calendar'. It is derived from the root šer- 'night', plus the affixes -m- (an honorific which can be attached to a some roots to indicate things which are sacred or special in some way) and -o (collective). Literally 'the many sacred nights / the collection of festiv...
- 26 Aug 2020 13:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
- Replies: 1180
- Views: 255624
Re: Con-Script Development Centre
I made the letter Wa: Image, which I can't get to show for some reason. Also some punctuation. Lovely!! You could have just used a single dot to get y from sh. The yogh shape is fine too, but the single dot would appeal to me as you already have dots as a feature, and when you have two dots meaning...
- 25 Aug 2020 00:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Cooking and dining!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9680
Re: Cooking and dining!
Aretian cuisine largely splits into two halves, the south-eastern redroot sphere and the north-western goldear sphere. Redroot is something I liked the sound of about seventeen years ago but have never quite decided what it was. I think of it as a cross between carrot, beetroot and sweet potato, but...
- 24 Aug 2020 18:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4431
Re: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
I have settled on a system to transcribe the three tones of Tuktin in the Romanisation . Any suggestions for the Hangul? Tone 0 - short, high. The default:- ms 'we', Tone 1 - long, level/high:- mơ̂ 'horse', tala̛ 'sea', Tư̈ktiˋn Tone 2 - long, drop-rise (cf. Mandarin 3rd tone or An. Greek circumfle...
- 22 Aug 2020 19:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XII - FINISHED!!
- Replies: 238
- Views: 77260
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)
Hooray! This victory was obviously a 30th birthday present to me from the conlanging gods.
Re: Mbath
Lovely. I like everything so far.
Forgive my ignorance / take it as curiosity willingly waiting to be informed: are there natlangs with consecutive aspirated stops forming a cluster, and both retaining aspiration? How exactly is this realised for you - with an epenthetic devoiced vowel, perhaps?
Forgive my ignorance / take it as curiosity willingly waiting to be informed: are there natlangs with consecutive aspirated stops forming a cluster, and both retaining aspiration? How exactly is this realised for you - with an epenthetic devoiced vowel, perhaps?
- 03 Aug 2020 17:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: AmEng-based conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1887
Re: AmEng-based conlang
The cases of /aI/ and /eI/ aren't equivalent, though. True. However, this is clearly right at the edge of what's possible, I think, as shown by the ways the system is collapsing - diphthongisation, regularisation to a length contrast, merger of several qualities by many speakers. ------------- Lang...
- 03 Aug 2020 15:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XII - FINISHED!!
- Replies: 238
- Views: 77260
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)
I have passed the torch to Yrusia.
- 03 Aug 2020 10:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Klingon, Vulcan, and Mutsun: Quick Okrand Languages Translation Projects
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13259
Re: Klingon, Vulcan, and Mutsun: Quick Okrand Languages Translation Projects
There were 167 new words revealed at the last qep'a' ! The thing is, compound words or altogether new roots invented by translators other than Marc Okrand himself are not considered canon , and the concept of canonicity is important in the culture of the human Klingon speaker community. This is coo...
- 03 Aug 2020 09:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: AmEng-based conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1887
Re: AmEng-based conlang
The English words seat, sit, sate, set, sat, sot, soot, suit show that English has at least 8 different vowel sounds. Is there some reason this list includes "sate" but not "site"? You could argue that /ai/ is a diphthong and shouldn't be counted, but /ei/ is also a diphthong, a...
- 03 Aug 2020 08:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: AmEng-based conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1887
Re: AmEng-based conlang
Hi, I'm sure you're going to add to this, and I'm curious to see what you're going to do. [:)] But I just want to query something: did I count 43 vowel segments? With 18 different quality distinctions? This is a lot! Quite possibly more than any natural language. Of 564 natlangs surveyed by WALS, th...
- 31 Jul 2020 14:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XII - FINISHED!!
- Replies: 238
- Views: 77260
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)
Torch received, work has begun.
- 21 Jul 2020 00:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ivka language
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2404
Re: Ivka language
Following this with interest and enjoyment. I have nothing to add, but curious to see how this develops.
- 11 Jul 2020 05:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: My reverse enge-lang: V:1g3n1n:1
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4785
Re: My reverse enge-lang: V:1g3n1n:1
Thoughts: 1. Woooah 2. wow 3. Reminds me of the interplay of taal and raag in Indian classical music; and in general rhythmic and melodic material coming together to create something more than the sum of its parts in the composite. Also maybe bellringing and knitting patterns... 4. If you were to ch...
- 09 Jul 2020 13:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Creating a Creole
- Replies: 2
- Views: 911
Re: Creating a Creole
I enjoyed this. Looks like an interesting and well thought-through project, nicely presented too. Was interested in the avoidance of languages which are too closely related. In a language contact of two closely related, but not mutually intelligible languages, am I right in thinking creolisation is ...
- 08 Jul 2020 22:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XII - FINISHED!!
- Replies: 238
- Views: 77260
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - SIGNUPS OPEN
Assuming it is not a prerequisite to be coming at this with a massively developed conlang, I'd like in on this. I need some motivation to keep going with my most recent project. I'd like to do it with Peoppaeq. You can absolutely join—I've myself used several relays as an excuse to flesh out ny lan...