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- 17 Apr 2024 19:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369755
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The last option I think.
- 09 Apr 2024 20:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: River Skasti (new grammar)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13994
Re: River Skasti (new grammar)
You could say that.
https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=32 ... ku#p322389
- 09 Apr 2024 01:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: River Skasti (new grammar)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13994
Re: River Skasti (new grammar)
Never seen one either, but great minds think alike?
- 25 Mar 2024 17:49
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 804
- Views: 202311
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
The live-in girlfriend who got real mad at me because I evicted her at the end of last September and made me pay for it.
- 25 Mar 2024 17:23
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 804
- Views: 202311
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Legally, I survived Betty. Big yay.
- 25 Mar 2024 17:22
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299658
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Other than the rarity of ergativity extending to syntax, no. The gender system isn't as exciting as some people make it out to be, c.f. K Plaster 2007 ("Women aren't dangerous things: gender and categorization"). Otherwise it's a well-behaved eastern Pama-Nyungan language.
- 21 Mar 2024 15:55
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2145
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
Depends on the duration of dying. I wouldn't expect new native prepositions without a very protracted death and a change in order; probably just straight up borrowing instead and calquing again.
- 21 Mar 2024 07:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Knox Scratchpad
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2598
Re: Knox Scratchpad
So on to adjectives. Adjectives are easy-peasy, lemon-Stevey. They basically just take a noun class prefix agreeing with their head noun. The prefixes are the same as their nominal referents '. Adjectives may be used with zero-derivation as nouns. But! That results in in nouns with a concrete meanin...
- 21 Mar 2024 06:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2145
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
Hmm. Say the SVO uses a complicated array of prepositions and relational nouns, and the local cool-speak uses cases suffixes (with suffixaufnahme for good measure) or just subordinate verbs that haven't quite made the leap to adposition, I wouldn't expect the dying SVO to hop aboard to case suffixes...
- 20 Mar 2024 06:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1126
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Yeah I got them and slowly ever more so. Instrumentals, elevation, direction, time of day, a slot for incorporated adverbs/adverbial prefixes, I guess some aspect forms, such much. Honestly polarity and speaker evaluation might be one of the few things without an affixal option. Bummer about Ainu. (...
- 13 Mar 2024 19:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2052
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Finally someone says it.
- 11 Mar 2024 08:25
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: It would be better for me to return home.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3180
Re: It would be better for me to return home.
kaṇumamtamimi
/kaɳumamtamimi/
ka-ɳumam-ra-mimi
1.ABS-return.home-PRS-SUGG
It would be better for me to go back home.
/kaɳumamtamimi/
ka-ɳumam-ra-mimi
1.ABS-return.home-PRS-SUGG
It would be better for me to go back home.
- 10 Mar 2024 21:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 13726
Re: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
I often sound out words and example phrases to get a feel, but predominantly it's just Notepad. Always has been.
- 07 Mar 2024 07:35
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Conlanger stereotype poll
- Replies: 148
- Views: 79673
Re: Conlanger stereotype poll
1. Male
2. Straight
3. Righty
4. American, Tennessee
5. German/Hungarian, English enough for a surname
6. Probably borderline
7. Healthy-ish
8. Glasses
9. Bearded
10. Overweight, but muscular
11. Nerd
12. No pets now
13. No religion
2. Straight
3. Righty
4. American, Tennessee
5. German/Hungarian, English enough for a surname
6. Probably borderline
7. Healthy-ish
8. Glasses
9. Bearded
10. Overweight, but muscular
11. Nerd
12. No pets now
13. No religion
- 29 Feb 2024 19:59
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The Cat and the Fish.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23514
Re: The Cat and the Fish.
Nice neat romanization: ṛamuṛpuṛṯaw ṛaṇat̰a ṛamilpi ṛakinkat ṛatuyuya=naṛa ṛat̰ayukparmat̰ayukparma ṛatiŋt̰alpiṉinaya=wiwir tiṇuk tiru yiṭaṇupu yiyirik ṛatayalpiya ṛayiŋput̰a yiŋuminitani ṛamuṛpuṛ yaḷu ṛayiŋnara yiŋuminitani=ḻawin pamimapu pakurun ṛaṛaŋput̰a ṛat̰aniŋ ṛamuṛpuṛ yaḷu ṛaṛaŋnara ṛat̰aniŋ...
- 29 Feb 2024 19:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Metal Thread
- Replies: 336
- Views: 155094
Re: Metal Thread
I can tell, yet it compels me.
- 28 Feb 2024 21:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369755
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Absolutely reasonable, no correlation implied, but c.f. Oklahoma Cherokee.
- 26 Feb 2024 03:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Knox Scratchpad
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2598
Re: Knox Scratchpad
Copula clauses: So, there's no copula verb. These are nonverbal. Juxtaposition is key here. Identity (A=B) (Noun1 Noun2) ma-ki-mumu ma-caŋik M-1-son M-doctor "My son's a doctor" Attribution (Noun Adjective) ma-ki-mumu ma-mima-makutu M-1-son M-leg-itchy "My son's restless" Locatio...
- 26 Feb 2024 02:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Knox Scratchpad
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2598
Re: Knox Scratchpad
Adpositions: There's a class of adpositions. Each one bears an agreement prefix to their head noun/pronoun. Adpositions don't form close phrases with those and may freely be separated by unrelated constituents for pragmatic reasons. ( yural̪u yuʈaɳupu mapura can have all 3 words in any order based o...
- 25 Feb 2024 17:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Project Stubby-Holder
- Replies: 6
- Views: 605
Re: Project Stubby-Holder
A bonus but nonessential.