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by eldin raigmore
18 Nov 2023 03:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: How many of your conlangs do you keep?
Replies: 20
Views: 4818

Re: How many of your conlangs do you keep?

lsd wrote: 17 Nov 2023 19:25 for almost half a century I've been rolling in front of me the same boulder endlessly up...
Around 63 years for me!
by eldin raigmore
17 Nov 2023 20:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Dluure najja
Replies: 16
Views: 9802

Re: Dluure najja

The idea was that they work like Turkish ğ. a+ɰ -> a: ə+ɰ -> ə: i+ɰ -> ɨ(:) u+ɰ / u+w -> u: i+j -> i: But I think it's about morphology if the analysis is meaningful. If the glide emerges in some environments, probably before a vowel, it's meaningful to analyze it on the underlying level. Dluure Na...
by eldin raigmore
17 Nov 2023 20:11
Forum: Translations
Topic: Make Love
Replies: 24
Views: 4613

Re: Make Love

…. * PIV sex between human adults, vs. …. By "between human adults", do you mean only sex wherein both partners are over the age of consent? Or do you just mean "sex between postpubescents" (e.g. sex between a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old in Texas)? One of those, not sure which...
by eldin raigmore
17 Nov 2023 00:09
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Dluure najja
Replies: 16
Views: 9802

Re: Dluure najja

I'm also considering if long vowels should be analysed as vowel + glide combinations. Maybe not all of them. But maybe all, or most, of them. Can most of your phonemic diphthongs be analyzed as a vowel which has been one or more ot the following; Post-labialized or Post-palatalized or Pre-labialize...
by eldin raigmore
17 Nov 2023 00:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347339

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Omzinesý wrote: 16 Nov 2023 20:10 What are the first sentences you start translating when you have a new conlang?
Probably fiziwig’s conlanger-friendly subset of GSFA (Graded Sentences for Analysis).
by eldin raigmore
16 Nov 2023 17:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
Replies: 57
Views: 22328

Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce

lurker wrote: 16 Nov 2023 13:53
During the early days of yinrih society women filled the roll of shaman while men filled the roll of warrior.)
<role> not <roll>
That’s a nit; this whole thing is pretty good!
by eldin raigmore
16 Nov 2023 01:08
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155304

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

@Shemtov :
Whence cometh the name “Waanic”?
It seems somewhat similar to the name of an Australian Aboriginal language that is unfortunately recently extinct.
by eldin raigmore
16 Nov 2023 01:05
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Naming Practices
Replies: 54
Views: 33889

Re: Naming Practices

Woe to the tenth child, for he shall be Nameless. Not really! If the (say) tenth-or-later son’s father has enough uncles, and the son’s mother has enough granduncles, they can just continue the pattern already established, as long as they don’t duplicate a name of the father or an older brother. Or...
by eldin raigmore
15 Nov 2023 15:41
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: What are the Benefits of Conlang ?? (on a practical and personal level)
Replies: 10
Views: 1016

Re: Benefits of Conlang ??

In addition to the benefits others have already mentioned, I have found that, when I expected two or a handful of features could go together in a natlang, but as far as anyone knows never have gone together in any natlang, by trying to construct a conlang with that bundle of features, I could find o...
by eldin raigmore
15 Nov 2023 15:27
Forum: Translations
Topic: Make Love
Replies: 24
Views: 4613

Re: Make Love

@BobiBob, & @Ossicone : To me, if there is going to be a binary dichotomy of sexual acts, what “feels” most “natural”, is: * PIV sex between human adults, vs. * Every other kind of sex. That’s subjective, and is not based on any study of cultural diversity on this topic. So, my subjective “feeli...
by eldin raigmore
14 Nov 2023 15:53
Forum: Translations
Topic: Make Love
Replies: 24
Views: 4613

Re: Make Love

I know I've mentioned this before but I still find it amusing. The first verb is samal . It is used for man on top sex. Esem apja. e-sem apʲa 3m-sex.PST 3f.ABS "He had sex with her." The second is atjural . It is used for woman on top sex. It is considered the more neutral of the two. (So...
by eldin raigmore
14 Nov 2023 15:49
Forum: Translations
Topic: Make Love
Replies: 24
Views: 4613

Re: Make Love

Welcome to your first post on CBB, josbrod96!
And good morning! You joined the bboard about an hour after I started reading it this morning!
by eldin raigmore
14 Nov 2023 15:39
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Does the grammar make sense?
Replies: 12
Views: 62070

Re: Does the grammar make sense?

I agree with what Veles just wrote!

Also: conlangernoob, it’s been about 9 months since we’ve heard from you about your conlang!
Last we heard from you on this thread, was February this year!
Do you have anything else to tell us?
I’m pretty sure all of us would be interested!
by eldin raigmore
13 Nov 2023 12:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: gǂàamą́ 3oį-ʔą̀rhokìi
Replies: 8
Views: 1731

Re: gǂàamą́ 3oį-ʔą̀rhokìi

I wish you good health!
I also wish your computer “good health”!
by eldin raigmore
12 Nov 2023 18:17
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656261

Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

...you may be interested in this: https://www.planetfuraha.nl/astronomy/seasonsb.htm and https://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/2009/01/cycle-of-cyann-3-last-of-rings.html https://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/2009/01/cyann-and-ilos-rings.html ...all are a good look at how rings impact a planet more nonleth...
by eldin raigmore
11 Nov 2023 19:10
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Naming Practices
Replies: 54
Views: 33889

Re: Naming Practices

@elemtilas: Read Re: Naming Practices Post by eldin raigmore » Tue 26 Sep 2023, 14:05 Correction Concerning Individual Anthroponyms in Adpihi and Reptigan below. …. Would you like to hear more about the contingencies? …. (What to do if strict obedience to the system would require you to name your ki...
by eldin raigmore
10 Nov 2023 22:30
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: How does one go back to college as a 30-something in the US?
Replies: 5
Views: 20644

Re: How does one go back to college as a 30-something in the US?

I did it. I can’t say I was very successful. I also can’t say I can tell anyone how to do it. For me, the problem was not so much the course-work; instead, it was that I had forgotten how to be a sophomore! OTOH I was glad I did it. The campus was nice. Classes and labs were more fun than work. [edi...
by eldin raigmore
09 Nov 2023 18:38
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1108
Views: 282274

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

…. In the text - IIRC - they explicitly leave open the possibility that the variety of Standard Indonesian as spoken by native speakers of Toba Batak might have something like word stress. Also, you are right, contact induced change is probably more common between varieties of the same language tha...
by eldin raigmore
09 Nov 2023 10:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207086

Re: What did you accomplish today?

floatremes In :tlh: grammar, there are verbal suffixes which can jump numerical position, adding to another suffix's meaning/intensity. These are called 'rovers'. This is only among the subset of verbal suffixes; this does not occur in the subset of :tlh: nominal suffixes, nor :tlh: verbal/nominal ...
by eldin raigmore
09 Nov 2023 10:32
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347339

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

@JohnDoeDoe : Your ideas look great to me! I saw one (only one!) possible problem with humans (of the kind we have around here nowadays, anyway) being able to perfectly pronounce the spoken version(s?) of this/these language(s). And that is: phonemic volume! Phonemic length and phonemic pitch are at...