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Dawn of the Third Day. 677 Hours Remain Yeah I know it's not dawn where I live, but I'm not changing the heading. 𝚜𝚍𝚚𝚌𝚍𝚛𝚐 # Pronunciation yip, short high weak whine, huff, short low weakening whine, chuff, short low weak growl # Etymology from [[𝚜𝚍𝚚]] (to throw) + [[‑𝚌𝚍𝚛]] (suffix indicating a tool...

So that last entry was bad and I should feel bad. I'll probably keep 𝚜𝙱𝙲𝙵𝚌𝚐 thermally conductive table as a lexeme, but it'll mean something else less silly. Here's something that makes way more sense and fits the week's theme better. Honestly this is the idea that evolved into the previous entry as...

Dawn of the Second Day. 714 Hours Remain 𝚜𝙱𝙲𝙵𝚌𝚐 Pronunciation yip, long low strengthening whine, late falling strong whine, short low weak growl Etymology from [[𝚜𝙱𝙲𝚐]] (table) + [[𝙵𝚌]] (thermally conductive) Definition Noun A cooking surface similar in some ways to a grill or griddle, but that can...

My first conworld was for a little story I wrote in which all the people involved were shapes. At least I think that was my first. It wasn't very fleshed out. If nothing else, at least it wasn't like Flat World where shapes were treated differently based on number of sides or the like. I was going ...

Dawn of the First Day. 733 hours remain 𝚚𝙷𝚚𝚑𝚐 Pronunciation huff, long low strong growl, huff, short low strong growl, short low weak growl Etymology Likely related to 𝚚𝚑𝚚𝚐 (sire) Definition Noun 1. mayor 2. the leader of a group 3. (the Spacer Confederacy) the chief of an individual Spacer city-st...

A small bit of constructive feedback: If more people join it'll keep extending the relay and push back when we all get to see how our torch compares to others'. I suggest in the future having a deadline for signups, a hard limit on the number of participants per ring, and a strictly enforced time li...

Inspired by the Your first conlang thread, here's an equivalent for conworlds. I've been conworlding longer than I've been conlanging, with efforts that I can confidently call "conworlds" going back to the late 90s. My first conworld was an informal collaborative project between some frien...

https://khemehekis.angelfire.com/basic.htm What do all you English-speakers think of my Kankonian? I like the use of the linguolabial trill. IIRC you started working on Kankonian in the late 90s. I didn't even start conlanging until fall of 2002 at the earliest and have been a consistent scrapper u...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑30 Nov 2024 23:41 I always pronounced it /ˈjɪnɹi/

That's an acceptable variation. It can be /"jIn.r\I(h)/ /"jIn.r\i/ or /"jIn.r\@/.

So I've decided that Firefly is going to be more literally lich-like. Instead of the Eternal Womb being located in a lavish throne room, it's squirreled away somewhere deep within the cavernous capital complex, which occupies the entire surface, and possibly interior, of a dwarf planet. It's true lo...

What would the Kankonians call monkey-foxes/yinrih? "Monkey-fox" would probably be expressed in Kankonian as zaturafiti ( zatura , monkey + fiti , fox). Then they could also borrow "yinrih" as yinrihh . Except the accent would be on the second syllable. HH is pronounced /ħ/. hmm...

𝚜𝚑𝚌𝚋𝚐

Pronunciation

yip, short low strong growl, short low weakening whine, short low weak growl

Etymology

Related to 𝚜𝚑𝙲𝚋 (to pour, spill) with a reduced second syllable

Definition

Noun

1. A hole in a barrel or cask through which liquid is poured in or drawn out
2. (slang) the cloaca

Eh grammar-wise Commonthroat isn't very difficult, given that TheThief3 translated my torch in like 24 hours, far less time than it took me to make it. I've leaned toward minimalism, so there aren't a lot of inflections to memorize. Inflecting nouns for personal deixis, which I regard as its most &q...

Prayer rings are intended both as meditation aids and fidget toys, with very low friction between the inner gear and outer ring, the gear can spin for a surprisingly long time. Younger pups are often given a prayer ring to fidget with during long liturgies.

𝚜𝙻𝙿 Pronunciation yip, long rising strengthening grunt Definition Verb To conceal, to hide (transitive) n g sGkl qCqK j n g qFdql qLPqK j rl pqn HMLg rjK sLPK n g sGk-l qCq-K j n g qFdq-l qLPq-K j rl p-qn HML-g rj-K sLP-K INS POS eye-1 see-DOG and INS POS ear-1 hear-DOG and DAT perch-2 nothing-3I PA...

/-st͡si-/: perfect progressive ("have been doing") /-k'us(i)-/: ("not have been doing") What does this really mean? I think English "have been doing" rather means that the action still goes on. IIRC, at least in English, the perfect have... indicates a present state re...

The citizens of Partisan Territory refer to the polity as The Outlands, and to themselves as Outlanders. Moonlitter objects to this usage, since the term historically implies a larger territory than the Partisans currently control.

`sbrPrFbrg` (bonekeepers) are volunteers who maintain the bones lining the inner and outer walls of a lighthouse. They are not considered clergy, so the position is open to both men and women, though the position is associated with older men. They also serve as chaplains for the dying, especially th...

Since I posted it on the reverse conlang conversation thread it makes sense to post it here, too. Here's a (rough) but more-or-less comprehensive lexicon of Commonthroat as of this writing. https://lonelygalaxy.neocities.org/cat The entries are not collated, and you'll need to use the Ctrl+F search ...