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Keenir wrote: ↑16 Aug 2023 16:39

Man in Space wrote: ↑15 Aug 2023 17:54 Anatomy of a composite CT hieroglyph:

very cool; nice work!

Thank you!

Here’s a complete sentence in CT:

Meshuggah – “Clockworks”

This is incidentally my favorite music video of all time.

opipik wrote: ↑20 Dec 2022 17:25 I'm currently listening to music in various Lakes-Plain languages.

I had no idea that was a thing.

Anatomy of a composite CT hieroglyph:

I have, after a brief consult with The World Lexicon of Grammaticalization , decided that in CT, the causative of status cannot be used to form a standard causative. That is handled with a serial verb construction involving the verb toḫ 'give'. Due to the way SVCs work in CT—pertinently, the verb ph...

If I need IPA, I tend to use either Helvetica or Computer Modern. I much prefer TT Marxiana, but its limited character set is a challenge.

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023 22:02 This is really a short question about natlangs; and I expect the answer will be short, also.
However I’m putting it here in “jokes” because I think it is likely to inspire puns, even though I haven’t thought of any.
….
Is “Bifrost” pronounced like “beef roast”?

Not in the MCU.

I don’t even know if the adasar have souls. I used to think so, but now I’m not so sure.

Caber personal nomenclature typically involves a noun phrase of the form adjective - noun - number . Nesŏoc Fŭsca Rahboć bŭf Postośeŭ was a historical leader of a Caber contingent; his name means 'Forty Stolen Cakes'. Another historical ruler is Ramaćŭoc Ćŭoc Bŏci '(With) Two Felled Trees'. The noun...

My Easter eggs are of the etymological kind. For some words in western European languages with unknown or controversial etymologies, I invent Hesperic etymologies. For instance, the Germanic word for 'monkey, ape' "is" from Old Albic pána , which is a loan from another Hesperic language w...

Maybe you just need a moment of Зn.

(I was trying to think of something for zhe and before you posted I briefly considered switching to French and using it for je.)

Üdj wrote: ↑18 Jul 2023 03:58 А, I бt you're вry much better at Cyrillic than I am.

Гt out of here with the self-Дprecation. Do not Е know Ёr worth?

Üdj wrote: ↑18 Jul 2023 03:43

Man in Space wrote: ↑18 Jul 2023 03:13 X-actly what are you implying and Y?

Now Z here ...

(What do we do now? Greek letters?

ь guess is as good as mine.

X-actly what are you implying and Y?

U know it.

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Üdj wrote: ↑16 Jul 2023 14:33Gee whiz, I hate this. My eyes are stinging.

J/K?

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑14 Jul 2023 01:41

Man in Space wrote: ↑12 Jul 2023 18:53 Seroquel is a helluva drug.

Please elaborate!

The worst manic episode I have EVER suffered…and it was like running headlong into Mjölnir. There was absolutely ZERO question that the mania was cancelled.

This is amazing. It’s like we’re watching NIST reconstruct how an accident happened.

This may be of interest to you. I am looking forward to using it.

Seroquel is a helluva drug.