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Creyeditor wrote: ↑30 Jul 2022 22:14 2. This sounds like a Dutch variety spoken in the US to me.

Like “Mein tochter nimmt piano lessons. Vier dollar sie costen mir haben.”?

https://voca.ro/1gM6WZ826vqw I will not give you the text, just an audio file of me reading the first chapter of a famous book. My questions for you: 1. Which book am I reading? Do you recognize the text? (It is indeed a very famous text) 2. Which natlangs were my main sources for the grammar, the ...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Jul 2022 06:30 Check out the music video for "Alive" by Empure of the Sun.

Does it inspire you to do any conworlding?

It makes me do a lot of wondering.
Often that leads to some conworlding, but it can be a long or winding path.

That’s really interesting! Could you give me a link to one of these databases? This is one: http://st2.ullet.net/?content=search_pattern&clear=1 Guidance: http://st2.ullet.net/?content=page&id=17 If memory serves, you can also search for secondary-stress patterns, but I don’t know where it ...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑26 Jul 2022 15:50 ….
1) It codes the complement of mane verbs. Many of them use 'about': to think about, to speak about ...
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What are mane verbs?
Apparently that’s not a typo for “main”.

Is secondary stress necessarily weight-sensitive if primary stress is? The system I have in mind is that primary stress falls on the first syllable, unless that syllable is light and the following one is heavy, in which case the second syllable is stressed. Secondary stress falls on every alternate...

Yes, Mutsun is a natlang. I don't know if you're answering something specific, but Bob says this in the opening post of the thread: Comparison and Criticism of Klingon, Vulcan, Atlantean, and Mutsun* (Okrand Languages). ( Mutsun is a Native American language of the Yok-Utian Family of California, b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsun_language
Says Mutsun is a natlang.
for all I know Okrand researched it, but I don’t think it’s his conlang.

In English, why is it that, one hangs a door, but one floats a window? I've never heard of "to float a window". Do you have any usage examples? The closest thing I can think of is "float glass", which is so called because it gets laid out on molten metal to ensure maximal smooth...

In English, why is it that, one hangs a door, but one floats a window?

The end of the Civil War was here, when quite accidentally . . . https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/larry-storch-star-of-f-troop-dead-at-99/ar-AAZs2T0?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f8a250289d734c4cbc040a15f21c0200 Barbara Feldon was Agent 99. Her character was never given any name other than 9...

I just don’t have enough imagination to invent untranslatables.

I agree with Sequor, Khemehekis, and WeepingElf about Man in Space’s CT Hieroglyphics!

Omzinesý wrote: ↑02 May 2022 12:27 Usually, the meaning is "derived from the context".

In my reading it is much more common for temples to burn heretics than the other way around.
So if I were to derive by context which was the burner and which the burnee, I would assume it was the temple burning the heretics.

I mean, what else could I write about a Jungle Planet full of Puritanical Naked Lesbians... IN SPACE! I didn’t remember it’s a jungle planet. I never got the impression before that most of them are puritanical. If it’s rainy and hot and there’s plenty of shade, being naked is just practical. Does i...

@Sal:
Interesting!

Wow, Arpien looks extremely sophisticated and complex! I don’t think it is, really; I think it looks that way because I posted its complete context-free grammar. The number of closed and open word-classes is about average for a natural language. The Chomsky normal form is about as simple as possibl...

It's great that you started a thread on Arpien [:)] It’s great that you responded to it! [:)] Do you want to post example sentences at some point? Yes! Do you have enough vocabulary? No. [:'(] If not, maybe you could post all the rules involving adverbs? Yes, I can. I will do so in a bit. The five ...

I don’t have everything mentioned in this post https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=10#p10 yet for my Arpien conlang. I did work up it’s 100-rule context-free generative grammar; I think I’ve posted it either elsewhere on the CBB or on other conlanging sites many CBBeans have seen it on. That includ...

... you're asking how /wandalus/ became /andalus/? Well, I suspect the route was the dropping of /w/. I am on another forum where a group are discussing this question. One of them suggested the same thing Salmoneus suggests above. Someone else doubted it. Is it even certain that the two are etymolo...