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Also, remember not everything has to be useful: things can just be there as obstacles to overcome (which is the general intent of hostile agents in games). True! I think MumboJumbo once tried to play Minecraft for I think it was 100 hours without killing any (hostile?) mobs to see how far he could ...

¿Dónde él piensa todos las comidas de los Estados Unidos venen de? Where does he think all the American foods come from? ¿Se puede usar una preposición pendienda en español, como en inglés? ¿Es verdad? One can use a dangling preposition in Spanish, like in English? Really? No. No. Sería "¿ De ...

Also, remember not everything has to be useful: things can just be there as obstacles to overcome (which is the general intent of hostile agents in games).

Hiatus until further notice: Part Two Due to the decreasing time available to me, and the burnout that has plagued me for a long time, I will again be mostly off of the CBB for some time. I will most likely be able to respond to PMs and quotes, and I love notifications so hesitate not, but I will b...

ɶʙ ɞʛ wrote: ↑10 Oct 2024 21:33 Alignment chart: pronunciation of <eu>

————————Lawful———Neutral———Chaotic———
Good—————/eu̯/————/e.u/————/əʉ̯/, /əɨ̯/
Neutral————/ju/————/ø/, /ɯ/——/ɔʏ̯/, /əi̯/
Evil——————/ev/————/ɹ̩/, /z̩/———//

This is correct.

/t k/ /s h/ /m n/ /r l/ /i u/ /e/ /a/ CVC* syllable structure. Acceptable internal clusters: /mm nn rr ll st sk ht hk/. Permitted word-final codas: /n s r/. /h/ is elided intervocalically. Syllable nuclei may be /a e i u/, or a diphthong /ai au eu/. Stress is ultimate with a word-final coda, penulti...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑04 Oct 2024 16:15 Today I went to the Wikipedia page for Navajo grammar and learned that the legends were true.

Of which legends do you speak?

As a teenager, I have heard and used bro increasingly outside of the vocative, without articles, such as the sentence: “bro just went crazy” I've increasingly heard this as well. At first mostly among "popular" people, chiefly men, but I'm now hearing it from nerdier types. I wonder how c...

I don't know what I'll think when I'm older, but at the moment I wouldn't want to live that long either. I don't want to slowly decline over decades, each day more tired than the last ...

Here's a second language derived from that proto. (ʷʉ ʲɨ rather than ʷə ʲə) p t k b d ɡ f s x > b d ɡ v z ɣ v z ɣ / V_V pʰ tʰ kʰ > f s x ŋ > ɣ ʷʉ ʲɨ > u i x ɣ > ∅ / !_V[stressed] x ɣ > h r / _V[stressed] C₁C₂ > C₂C₂ [hr] durevə "water (nom.)" durevi "water (acc.)" durevuzə "...

Now some sound changes from that. (ʷə ʲə rather than ʷʉ ʲɨ) Nʷ > w̃ intervocalically; > w otherwise f x > h Kʷ Pʷ > P sʲ xʲ > ʃ ə > ∅ / V[+stress]C[-aspirated]_ ə > a / V[+stress]{CC, C[aspirated]}(C)_ Cʰ > hC / !_V dʷəheh "water (nom.)" dʷəhefʲ "water (acc.)" dʷəhefsa "lake...

-(s)ə Nominative noun -(s)ʲə Accusative/oblique noun -(s)ʷəsə Nominative augmentative noun -(s)ʷəsʲə Accusatuve/oblique augmentative noun -(s)ʲəkʰə Nominative diminutive noun -(s)ʲəkʰʲə Accusative diminutive noun -n-ə First person imperfective verb -n-ək Second person imperfective verb -n-ʲə Third p...

Another one /p t k/ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ /b d ɡ/ /f s x/ /m n ŋ/ Stressed vowels: /i u e o a/ Unstressed vowels: /ə ʷə~ʷʉ ʲə~ʲɨ/ Root structure: (CV[unstressed])CV[stressed](C) Roots are ambiguous as to part of speech; the suffixes they receive clarify that. *dʷəxef: dʷəxefə "water (nom.)" dʷəxefʲə...

This is evil. I love it.

Should I add the words "nectarine" and "amaranth" under the More Plants section of my Landau Core Vocabulary? This is a question that never got answered. For everyone's reference, here are the plant words in Part IV: plant* female (plant) male (plant) bush flower, blossom, bloom...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Sep 2024 16:13 I see that Arayaz was the only one who made exactly 31 posts in Lexember.

I wasn't consistent with doing one per day, though. It's a coincidence that I ended up at 31.

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑22 Sep 2024 07:16 How do you pronounce preglottalized consonants? Are there any examples?

AFAIK it's simply e.g. [ʔm], [ʔn], etc.

Feel free to take me out of parentheses in the list.

I'm unfortunately too young to have any sort of degree. Wikipedia is basically my background as well ─ and the CBB, if that counts, as it was my first introduction to other conlangers.

TBPO wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024 16:56 Is this conworld dead?

Functionally so, as its creator is inactive.