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by LetoAtreides
29 Dec 2010 19:01
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Reflexive Conethnography
Replies: 6
Views: 2669

Re: Reflexive Conethnography

Are the Nhginhgeqmba communists ? For a Nolikan, communism would be plainly idiotic but American-style capitalism wouldn't be very clever too. "Third position" would probably make most sense. As far as religion goes, Islam and Judaism would be most familiar. On the other hand, the Meljanes...
by LetoAtreides
28 Dec 2010 15:29
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: What kind of conlanger are you?
Replies: 195
Views: 104339

Re: What kind of conlanger are you?

Loyalists with some filler tendencies.
by LetoAtreides
28 Dec 2010 14:03
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Largest Inflection table
Replies: 7
Views: 3137

Re: Largest Inflection table

But as for irregular and thus large... French verbs and German nouns... come to mind. There are many paradigms in both cases. German nouns ? They have only four cases and what is inflected is not the noun itself, but the article. Polish (and probably all Slavic) nouns are very complicated, with 6-7...
by LetoAtreides
27 Dec 2010 16:26
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Your Culture's RPG Alignment
Replies: 41
Views: 8987

Re: Your Culture's RPG Alignment

I am not familiar with RPG, but the "good/evil" distinction makes lot of sense if we assume that it is inspired by Tolkien. In real world, I think that cultures cannot be "good" or "evil". North Korea may be an evil state, but not Korean culture in general. Invading Afg...
by LetoAtreides
23 Dec 2010 12:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: First Conlang - Phonology
Replies: 19
Views: 5261

Re: First Conlang - Phonology

Ghoster wrote:
kʼxɬɬtʰsxʷ sɬχʷtʰɬɬtʰs (t͡s?)
I don't get it, what is this?
Salishan (an aboriginal language of Canada). It makes Polish look like Japanese.
by LetoAtreides
22 Dec 2010 20:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: First Conlang - Phonology
Replies: 19
Views: 5261

Re: First Conlang - Phonology

The vowel system seems to be copied from English "short" vowels. Consonants, however, are OK.
by LetoAtreides
22 Dec 2010 16:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What does the name of your conlang mean?
Replies: 92
Views: 16744

Re: Naming Conlangs

I usually invent a name and then give it a translation: Nolikan (Noliki) has really no meaning, but probably meant 'familiar' originally. Yoketian (Yōkettu) means '(language) of the nurturing place' Meljanese (ika-Melźań) is distorted form of earlier ik-amal-źeń 'language of the great horsemen' It's...
by LetoAtreides
19 Dec 2010 19:56
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Religion/Philosophy of Your Conculture(s)
Replies: 56
Views: 16316

Re: Religion/Philosophy of Your Conculture(s)

What happened to the colonies to make them lose their technology? Learning about complicated technologies is a hard work, isn't it ? Welfare tends to make people lazy and less likely to study complicated equations. This can make hi-tech societies less stable than sci-fi fans would like them to be. ...
by LetoAtreides
19 Dec 2010 17:12
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Hated Phonemes!
Replies: 92
Views: 16894

Re: Hated Phonemes!

I hate palatalized consonants. They sound so childish. Among other consonants, /p/ sounds funny, but too much of it is unpleasant.

Among vowels, /ʉ/ sounds stupid.
by LetoAtreides
25 Sep 2010 18:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: If you were making an auxlang, what phonemes would it have?
Replies: 32
Views: 9162

Re: If you were making an auxlang, what phonemes would it ha

/p b t d k g/
/f s h/ (with free variation between [h] and [x])
/m n/
/w l r j/ (with free variation between [w], [ʋ] and [v])
/a e i o u/

Syllable structure CVC.
by LetoAtreides
25 Sep 2010 18:30
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Favorite Phoneme!
Replies: 421
Views: 67188

Re: Favorite Phoneme!

I like /ɬ/ and /ħ/ because they are exotic, but /ts/ is found in all my conlangs so I guess this is what my subconscius likes most.
by LetoAtreides
15 Sep 2010 21:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043737

Re: Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Maximillian wrote:
Nortaneous wrote:[jʷ] is [ɥ].
No, [ɥ] to [w] is like [y] to , i.e., [ɥ] is the consonant version of [y].


You both are right because [ɥ] is to [j] what [y] is to and [y] is nothing but with lip rounding.
by LetoAtreides
14 Sep 2010 19:44
Forum: Translations
Topic: Individuality
Replies: 8
Views: 2553

Re: Individuality

:pol: Moje słowa są łatwe do rozumienia A moje czyny są łatwe do popełnienia Chociaż nikt inny nie potrafi ich zrozumieć ani popełnić Moje słowa mają znaczenie; moje czyny mają powody Chociaż nie można ich ani mnie poznać. It is correct, but I would change the last line to "Chociaż nie można p...
by LetoAtreides
13 Sep 2010 18:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What got you started in Conlanging?
Replies: 38
Views: 9222

Re: What got you started in Conlanging?

First version of Nolikan was created in 1999 and it consisted of a wordlist only (because I realized the conpeople need a language of their own). Some words I made at that time are still present, such as dode 'road' or muryo 'cat'. Later I added some Arabic, Persian and Chechen words which I learned...
by LetoAtreides
11 Sep 2010 14:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Aqcin language
Replies: 5
Views: 3106

Re: Aqcin language

The name is similar to Nolikan word for boy (axčin). The specialty of the language are large mental terminology and categories. In their good days the Aqcins worked commonly as psychologists. For example a very strong curse word in Aqcin is ‘ruochâq’, meaning Alzheimer’s disease. Great idea, but mor...
by LetoAtreides
10 Sep 2010 19:47
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Plural conjugation for collective nouns?
Replies: 19
Views: 5951

Re: Plural conjugation for collective nouns?

Maximillian wrote:
LetoAtreides wrote:"milion żołnierzy zwycięża" (million soldiers win) vs "żołnierze zwyciężają" (soldiers vin)
Is żołnierzy a genitive case for "soldiers"?
Yes. Milion works like a collective noun, not a numeral.

Do you know Polish BTW ?
by LetoAtreides
10 Sep 2010 17:33
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Plural conjugation for collective nouns?
Replies: 19
Views: 5951

Re: Plural conjugation for collective nouns?

In Polish, collective nouns, including names of large numbers, must be followed by verbs in third person singular, as in "milion żołnierzy zwycięża" (million soldiers win) vs "żołnierze zwyciężają" (soldiers vin)
by LetoAtreides
09 Sep 2010 19:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Why is it that most IALs simply dont work? (very long)
Replies: 39
Views: 11239

Re: Why is it that most IALs simply dont work? (very long)

I would even suggest that languages approach unusability (or at least, undesirability) if they try too hard to eliminate vagueness and ambiguity. There are plenty of times when people like to be vague, and if the language doesn't want to let them, they will change the language so they can. Mayne th...
by LetoAtreides
09 Sep 2010 15:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Why is it that most IALs simply dont work? (very long)
Replies: 39
Views: 11239

Re: Why is it that most IALs simply dont work? (very long)

Even the best IAL would have hard time competing with popular natural languages. Even if noone bothers to learn French as a foreign language, you still can communicate with >50 million native speakers. It is highly improbable that 50 mln people learn Esperanto.