The CBB

Iħe, xirs leudunk fus boej alkäm fus oi vilenen ezdurish, daħi nĵe mirsha spoiler ds em id "hetćodheg" bÿr sibisiisdeg, leħ shar ic ferel laze oi ic häzel olizda erensët. /ike dzirs 'leu̯dunk fus boe̯ʒ al'kæm fus oi̯ vile'nen edzu'riʃ 'daki ɲe mir'ʃa 'spoi̯lerds em id 'hettsoðeg byr sibi'...

Pabappa wrote: ↑04 Jan 2018 20:07 Ah, *now* I get it! I'd always wondered where piscina "swimming pool " comes from!

Yeah, you have no idea how many awful jokes we hear about that.

I just realized that "food" in Russian is пища /'pʲiɕːǝ/, which, to my Italian ear, is very similar to Italian piscia /piʃːa/, meaning... well, piss. Quite vulgar of a term as well.

My conplanet Barrer, where all my conworlds are located, is roughly divided into two hemispheres, named the Front and the Back Hemisphere. Cultures differ a lot between the two, and as such they adopt different calendars; however, much like the Chinese or Islamic calendars, these are often replaced ...

I was thinking that something like "he is" would be rendered as он /on/ in :rus: Russian, which means just "he" and implies "is", whereas in :fin: Finnish you could render it as on , which means just "is" and implies "he/she/it" (and is of course unr...

:ita: Italiano L'uomo vede la donna usare il telescopio. /l‿wɔːmo 'vede la 'dɔnna u'zaːre il tele'skɔːpjo/ lo uomo ved-e la donna us-are il telescopio DEF.MS man see-3SG DEF.FS woman use-INF DEF.MS telescope :con: Hecathver/Häħadhvar Ic hunke mirshët is belasses dauboe (zab) havarët is gälils. /itʃ ...

I have two versions for my mother tongue: :ita: Italian version 1 Sente che gli hanno mentito. /'sεnte ke ʎi 'anno men'tiːto/ sent-e che gli ha-nno ment-ito feel-3SG that 3SG.DAT have-3PL lie-PART.PAST He feels that they lied to him. :ita: Italian version 2 Si sente come se gli avessero mentito. /si...

There's lots of craziness in Italy's langauges. Take Sardinian, a completely unique branch of Romance that doesn't follow any of the same vowel shifts, has a retroflexion plosive and nasal, for example. It also has changes similar to Italian in the southern variety, Campidanese, and similar to Span...

I'm building some house lexicon for my latest conlang, Simpel. I thought it could be a good idea to have you share a description of your house in your conlang(s) as well, to encourage you to build that same lexicon. Add your natlang(s) too if you'd like! I'll go first. The sentence I'm going to tran...

:ita: Italian Prima di morire, voglio vedere l'America. /'priːma di mo'riːre, 'vɔʎʎo ve'deːre l‿a'mεrika/ prima di mor-ire voglio ved-ere la America before than die-INF want.1SG see-INF DEF.FS America :ita: Emilian - Dialàt Vgnulěṡ (Gallo-Italic local language) Préma 'd murîr, a vój vàder l'Aměrica....

I'll add my conlangs, but unfortunately most of them don't have a thread here. All of these are a priori except where otherwise noted, although some take inspiration from natlang phonologies or alphabets. Hecathver/Häħadhvar (2012): fusional, tripartite alignment (ergative identical to nominative ex...

:con: This text is in Simpel, my latest work-in-progress conlang. :con: Ef naun wan, im e pre uder ika, dzu ef keup ob. /ef nau̯n wan im e pre 'uder 'ika d͡zu ef keu̯p ob/ For some things it has improved, but for others not so much. Atad am, eud inar parfin e teit xilir, dzu am ika qaz otonan ef si...

Not sure if this fits, but :ita: Italian has ti amo (plain, straight-forward I love you, romantically speaking) and ti voglio bene (I love you as a friend, lit. I want you to be well but I don't love you in the romantic sense; also what you would use, say, with your parents). Usually when your crush...

I like both the multiple pronouns and the adverb solution. The former don't look that ugly to me, they are aligned with the feeling I'd want for this language. As for the adverbs, instead, they are more aligned with what I did already for other unmarked things, e.g. tense. I could study a rule to fi...

A conlang I'm currently developing, Simpel, has no distinction between singular and plural in any of its parts of speech, which means that pronouns don't have one either. This seems a big limitation to me, but I really want to go for it. I was therefore looking for some other way to give hints about...

:ita: Italian Vuoi andare a casa? /vwɔi̯ an'daːre a 'kaːza/ vuoi and-are a casa want.2SG go-INF to home :ita: Emilian - Dialàt Vgnulěṡ Vǒ-t andêr a cà? /voːt ɐn'dεːr ɐ kă/ vǒ t and-êr a cà want.2SG 2SG.ATONE.QUESTION go-INF to home :con: Hecathver/Häħadhvar Ĵösses genut tenuts? /ʝǝs'ses dʒe'nut te'n...

I really wish to get my inspiration from definitely meaningful phrases said by certainly wonderful people like "Man is condemned to be free". :ita: Italian Vorrei tanto essere ispirato da frasi piene di significato e pronunciate da persone certamente meravigliose come "L'uomo è condan...

Sorry it's so big, I have no idea how to make it smaller.

:ita: Italian Gli eretici hanno bruciato il nostro tempio! Che Dio ci aiuti! /ʎi e'rεtitʃi 'anno bru'tʃaːto il 'nɔstro 'tεmpjo ke 'dio̯ tʃi a'juːti/ gli eretic-i ha-nno bruci-ato il nostr-o tempio che Dio ci aiut-i DEF.MP eretic-PL have-3PL burn-PART.PAST DEF.MS our-MS temple that God 1PL.OBJ help-S...

I have to add that Italian itself has a handful of nouns that behave like masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural; this is the case for most nouns that were neuter in Latin, possibly because of the neuter plural ending -a which is identical to the feminine singular ending (at least in t...