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by Khemehekis
15 Mar 2024 02:56
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193837

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Btw, I feel like now is a fitting time to ask, what does the last part of your signature, "31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!", mean? Good question! It's an old joke/meme that started with a comment from Tanni (a now-banned user) in a conversation here: https://cbbforum.com/viewt...
by Khemehekis
15 Mar 2024 02:25
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193837

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Guzhiet Blahatz na Zos!

Happy Pi Day!
by Khemehekis
15 Mar 2024 01:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Replies: 27
Views: 835

Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber

Oh, certainly! Several other people on the CBB are teenagers ─ Flavia and GoshDiggityDangit, I think, and Sketch. Edit: There's an account on here that is sketch , and one that is _Just_A_Sketch ─ I don't think they're the same person? The former said he was a teenager, and I think the latter is to...
by Khemehekis
14 Mar 2024 23:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Replies: 27
Views: 835

Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber

And let's not forget that not every conlang or conworld teen-agers create is bad. I was a teen-age boy when I started Kankonian and Shaleyan, and invented the planet Kankonia and drew many of the sapient species of Lehola with their planet names. And Arayaz has done some impressive work (like with h...
by Khemehekis
14 Mar 2024 17:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Replies: 27
Views: 835

Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber

Personally, I don't hate Verdurian. I think it would be a pretty cool language if it weren't for just one thing -- namely, that this is supposed to be an extraterrestrial language, yet too many of the native words to be explained by a coincidence sound just like their equivalents in some well-known ...
by Khemehekis
14 Mar 2024 16:58
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282410

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

I tried https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/? ... s&q=siever , and it lists "siever" only as a noun for a sieve-maker (and later, an eponymous attributive, with a capital S).
by Khemehekis
14 Mar 2024 15:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207154

Re: What did you accomplish today?

What I meant was, what was your 1000th word? Your 2000th? Your 3000th? I would expect they would have sentimental significance, and it'd be fun to see what realms of meaning they all belong to, so I wondered if you kept a list. Oh. Well, I didn't know exactly how many words I had until I cointed an...
by Khemehekis
13 Mar 2024 20:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207154

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Kankonian's lexicon size passed the 86,000 mark while I was counting all these new words. Word #86,000 was Grassipetla , a tribe of Kupulshas. Woohoo! Ever onwards you climb! Yeah. [:D] Do you have a list all in one place of each of your ’000 words? I have an English-Kankonian spreadsheet file, inc...
by Khemehekis
13 Mar 2024 20:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207154

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I've been adding a lot of names for human peoples/ethnic groups/tribes to Kankonian's lexicon lately, and to balance out all the Earth-centric culture words (I'm about to receive a huge list of English words through email), I've decided to flesh out the names of the languages that are attested on Ka...
by Khemehekis
13 Mar 2024 15:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Replies: 29
Views: 873

Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum

Laatiklantu was so cool. What happened to it? I noticed some things I had done with it that weren't very naturalistic ─ e.g. its word order. I also disliked how clumsy it was with all its required morphology. I plan to reflect at least some of its spirit in a future language; that was going to be I...
by Khemehekis
13 Mar 2024 15:13
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
Replies: 322
Views: 88405

Re: What are you listening to/watching?

Arayaz wrote: 13 Mar 2024 14:03 I'm also Jewish, but I hadn't heard of "Jewish music" as a genre... sure, there are songs about Jewish holidays, but I didn't think of it as a genre, y'know? Just as a potential subject matter.
How about klezmer? Klezmer is Jewish music.
by Khemehekis
13 Mar 2024 08:33
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: What are you listening to/watching?
Replies: 322
Views: 88405

Re: What are you listening to/watching?

@Visions1: Are you Jewish? (My IRL surname is Landau, so . . .)
by Khemehekis
13 Mar 2024 02:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Replies: 29
Views: 873

Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum

Laatiklantu was so cool. What happened to it?
by Khemehekis
11 Mar 2024 04:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207154

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Created and named a bunch of rivers, archipelagos, and islands. Got 168 299 new Kankonian words out of it.
by Khemehekis
11 Mar 2024 04:16
Forum: Translations
Topic: See a penny, pick it up, All day long you'll have good luck.
Replies: 15
Views: 8960

Re: See a penny, pick it up, All day long you'll have good luck.

The New York cartoonist Roz Chast once published a cartoon with variations. One was: "Find a penny, let it be/Someone may need it more than me". Another was: "Find a penny, walk right past/You never know who had it last".
by Khemehekis
09 Mar 2024 09:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
Replies: 53
Views: 12932

Re: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?

thethief3 wrote: 09 Mar 2024 08:47 I pronounce the words in my head but generally not allowed. Amarin is easy to pronounce relative to my other languages as i do struggle with pronouncing non-english sounds.
You mean "aloud", right?
by Khemehekis
09 Mar 2024 07:15
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193837

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Ahzoh wrote: 09 Mar 2024 06:28 WordPerfect's a program I haven't heard of for a while
Yeah, but I never caught the hang of MS Word.
by Khemehekis
09 Mar 2024 05:20
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193837

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

I just ran SpellCheck (Corel WordPerfect's version thereof) on my LCV file. It caught three typos (such as "cbop" for "chop") but it needs to update its vocabulary. It's not too good with linguistics terms like "ergative" and "animacy", for starters. It trips ...
by Khemehekis
09 Mar 2024 03:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Replies: 21
Views: 645

Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?

thethief3 wrote: 09 Mar 2024 02:47 Amarin
*p *t *k *kʷ *s *ś *r *l *j *w *m *n *ń *i *e *a *u *o
Stops are written as their voiced allophones after nasals
So in other words, you also have:

*b *d *g *gʷ :?:
by Khemehekis
08 Mar 2024 23:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: griushkoent conlang thread
Replies: 98
Views: 93760

Re: griushkoent conlang thread

Reyzadren wrote: 18 Sep 2023 01:16
Khemehekis wrote: 12 Sep 2023 08:03Which natlang has a name that sounds like "griuskant" or "griushkoent"?
On IRC, it was made known to me by CBB people that there is a natlang called Rumantsch Grischun.
Well, Kankonian sounds like Konkani! That's never bothered me, though.