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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...

How did the name “Vandal” evolve into the name “al-Andalus” ?

I think this question can be formulated in term of markedness. Is the low tone always the unmarked tone? The answer is: no, in some languages the mid tone is unmarked. But, do languages with only two tones, namely a low level tone and a high level tone, always make the low one the unmarked one? I’m...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑23 May 2022 06:09 What does "apoduran" mean? I can't find it online. Were you thinking of "epidural"?

Away from duran, whatever duran is. I was thinking of durian and misspelled it, I think.

So IOW it doesn’t mean anything.

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I wasn’t thinking of German affixes at all!

In the English word <scent>, which letter is silent? The <s> or the <c>? I think of the SC as more like a double letter -- like the TT in "little", the SS in "glass", the CK in "black", the TCH in "match", or the "DG" in "bridge". Yes, may...

In the English word <scent>, which letter is silent? The <s> or the <c>?

I thought of “apoduran”. I must have misspelled “-durian”, omitting the <i >.
I don’t know the names of enough conlangs!
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This riddles a/o jokes subthread should probably be split, and maybe put in a different subforum.

teotlxixtli wrote: ↑21 May 2022 18:54 Great googly moogly! These maps are absolutely astounding to be hand drawn. Really impressive work here

the romans, after all, were the ones that came up with the distinction

I thought it was the Greeks during the Persian Wars.

My mother used to think a diatom was called a di-atom, as in they only had two atoms in their body. I remember thinking that, but I don’t remember how old I was when I found out it was dia-tom, “across-cut”. I deliberately reanalyze words sometimes for jokes. For instance, in what way is vinegar wi...

I accomplished a lot of leftover RL duties, so now I should have more headspace to devote to conlang and neography and Worldbuilding activities.

MissTerry wrote: ↑16 May 2022 15:32 …. The seed root of Puuysaupa is "Puuy" which is the Sanskrit root meaning to stink. ….

Wow!

Creyeditor wrote: ↑12 May 2022 18:58 Did anybody notice that there will be a (non-LCS) conlang conference in Italy? Here is the link: https://linguistlist.org/issues/33/33-1673/

Wow! They think it’s the first one!

Creyeditor wrote: ↑12 May 2022 18:07 Is fusion of root and marker (in a general sense) maybe covered by the chapter on suppletion in verbal paradigms (feature 79A and 79B) in WALS?

I would guess “no”.