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The wonders of allophony!

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025 03:21 Sorry to be obtuse but what is the point of this game?

My idea was getting feedback on what words in your conlang "sound like" to other people.

Of course, that's just my interpretation. Perhaps WizardOfWar had other ideas.

Kankonian:

Is as weviya, am is os hesias Kankonik. Mahan ar hesias Inglish?
1s PRS sorry but 1s NEG speak-PRS Kankonian. Q 2s speak-PRS English
I'm sorry, but I don't speak Kankonian. Do you speak English?

BTW, I actually added a word for "roguelike" to Kankonian just last month, when I was doing the R-words on the IGCE list. It's kolurvikuzha, which was borrowed from Javarti kolürviküja, which comes from kola (world) + -ürvi (against) + küja (game).

Arayaz wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 23:49 It's also a video game — a deck-building roguelike, basically. I don't play, but I know some who do.

Ah, I see. Never heard of the video game; I guess YoungConlanger's word was an Easter egg for that, and not the Latin word?

YoungConlanger wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 23:50

Khemehekis wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 23:46 Plus, it forms a false cognate with Bill Ballantine.

Who's he?
*seaches Wikipedia*
O-oka-ay, Bill Ballantine the Illustrator or the Biology guy?

This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ball ... lustrator)

He restarted the Barnum & Bailey Clown College!

TIL that balatro is the Latin word for "clown" or "buffoon". (I didn't get the Easter egg at first and wiktionaried it.)

Plus, it forms a false cognate with Bill Ballantine.

Understandable. And yaaaaaaaay -- Xúuuatxia's back! That's not a licit vowel sequence in Xúuuatxia, unfortunately, but it does have the vibe. (Something about this was meant to be funny idk, my brain is very tired) Oh, I get it, you're referring to the word "yaaaaaaaay", which has all tho...

[:'(] What happened? (Or are you not allowed to share that either?) I got pretty burned out and had to quit. That's happened to a good number of people; usually either someone else takes over their culture(s) and language(s) or they find an in-world reason for their disappearance. There was also so...

It's making me really annoyed that I can't post anything about Areyaxi, because it's my most developed culture, history, and languages. I promise, though, that the moment (this season of?) Tyuns is over (I don't know when that will be, though), I'm'a rush right on here and give y'all the biggest in...

Wow. The largest phonemic inventory I ever created was for qh-xh-hw-h-f-dd-s’.

You know, when I first saw the thread title, I thought, "Wait, why is Knox Adjacent calling it Project Clickbait? Is this a gimmick to get everyone to open the thread?"

Then, when I saw the first post, I figured it out.

TBPO wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025 20:55 slime

next: füņwī

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viswaza (meaning: Neptune grass)

ɶʙ ɞʛ wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025 19:35 Ponytail

Next: ayuha [a.jʉ.ha]

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fermum (meaning: tarantula)

@Aevas: Brilliant plan to keep the spammers at bay!

Do you think this thread should be updated so registrants will be aware of this?

Well, at least not liberal parlamentary democracy in the way it is practiced. In theory, sowjet communism was based on a council system (similar to the way I pictured it), recall voting, and the absence of any division of power or checks and balances. Of course, in practice it was very different. W...

lurker wrote: ↑22 Feb 2025 15:58 𝚚𝚐𝚓𝚜𝙺𝚐𝙷𝙶𝚐 an upset, a shxkeup, a sudden change in leadership
𝚚𝚐𝚓𝚜𝙺𝚐𝙶𝙷𝚐 the crime of treason

I like "an upset, a shxkeup, a sudden change in leadership". Perhaps the word for "upstart" can be derived from this?

(I think Salmoneus once wrote a good post on homelessness under feudalism in England, but can't remember where off the top of my head). This? https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=313081#p313081 Khemehekis to the rescue! [:D] That was the exact post I was thinking of I just remembered the post discu...

sangi39 wrote: ↑09 Mar 2025 01:26 (I think Salmoneus once wrote a good post on homelessness under feudalism in England, but can't remember where off the top of my head).

This?

https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=313081#p313081

I've been developing a fantasy world that I want some input with. The basic idea is there are (at least for now) two races: humans and elves. The elves are capable of spellcasting through channel their own innate magic, leading to them developing a society based around magic. Humans, on the other h...