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Chöi porfíralats la ( のり, 紫菜 ) zçüdölét theu nöi. [/b][/i] [tsøj poɾ'fiɾalats 'la (no̞ɺi, tsɨ˧˩ts h aɪ˥˩) ʑy'dølet 'θɛ.u 'nøj] DEF Porphyra- NOM AUX.PRES ( seaweed, seaweed ) delicious- NOM very- AdADJ be Porphyra (のり, 紫菜) is/are quite delicious. http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/f...

:jpn: Japanese Japanese has no good word for 'demonstrate' so I have used 'show' 見せるつもりのあったX show intention REL.SBJ exist-PST X X that (someone) intended to show 見せるはずのあったX show expectation REL.SBJ exist-PST X X that should have been shown (REL.SBJ is a subject marker that only appears in relative c...

三時で東京行き電車を乗る。

3時に（私が乗る、）小田原行きの電車が出発します。

Certainly words like this can change from group to group, but if it is a discourse particle then by nature it must have some sort of pragmatic function agreed on by multiple speakers, otherwise it couldn't be used to facilitate discourse. To say that it is different for every speaker is kind of dodg...

It can often be used to indicate approximation ("it took like 10 minutes"), exaggeration/hyperbole ("there were like a million people there"), interpretation/perception ("he was like, really mad") and so on. All these uses seem to be extensions of its basic meaning of e...

Himmaswa has so many weird looking words it's hard to choose. Here are a few that sound odd to me for whatever reason: dmortbee - [dmɔ̰˞ːt̚biː] - to be or move horizontally dongbachjdeñge - [dɔŋba(ʧ)ʤdɛɲɡɛ] - prime minister gooaychdee - [ɡuə̯jʧdiː] - whirlpool; eddy jaa'aa - [ja̰ːa̰ː] - yes; very we...

Japanese is unambiguous. I have chosen to use an informal style here. :jpn: 来るっていつ言った？火曜日に言った or 火曜日。 Kuru tte itsu yutta? Kayōbi ni yutta. or Kayōbi. come COMP when say-PST? Tuesday DAT say-PST | Tuesday :jpn: いつ来るって言った？火曜日に来る(って)。 or 火曜日だって。 Itsu kuru tte yutta? Kayōbi ni kuru (tte). or Kayōbi da ...

Here is how I organize the three major relative pronouns (defining "animate" as XXXVII described it, i.e. mostly people but sometimes animals): that -defining -animate or inanimate which -non-defining* -inanimate who -defining or non-defining -animate You can probably find examples that co...

Himmaswa

Jgout wneung gnop dua.
rain fall stop PERF

Aakuoo, wneung wui daak.
be.not fall IMPERF.EVENT.PROT EMPH

Dormouse559 wrote:Wondered at the fact that I heard "knackered" for the first time and immediately imagined it spelled with a silent k.

Analogy. I assume you know "knack," which is the word most similar to "knackered."

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I'm guessing the point is that you're supposed to measure your language against natural languages, not other people's conlangs.

もう4月になったのにこのスレッドは今年まだ誰も何も書いてないじゃないですか。
変な天気のせいで今年の桜がいつもより２～３週間ぐらい早く咲いたんですけど、咲いたらすぐまた寒くなって、桜が普段より倍ぐらい持ちました。今はもう散って葉桜になっています。

Hion kchiop dua deu?
grave sweep PERF Q
Did you sweep any tombs?

Not to mention the fact that Japanese has a number of case particles that, while not necessarily analyzable as suffixes, still serve the same function as case endings. As for verb endings being auxiliaries, some of them are clearly identifiable as independent verbs that have been compounded, e.g. -(...

This actually seems pretty common in japanese. A single word can often be written with different kanji, often with slight (or not so slight) differences in meaning, although sometimes there is disagreement over what those differences are, and sometimes there doesn't seem to be any difference at all...

In standard Japanese usage, 生 can be pronounced nama , sei , shō , i(k)- , u(m)- , o- , ha- , na- , mu- . There are also over 20 other pronunciations used only in names. A single grapheme pronounced in multiple ways, I think this is what you were asking about. In fact nearly every logogram used in J...

:jpn: Japanese: 熊 kuma bear bear これはアメリカグマです。 Kore wa amerikaguma desu. this TPC American-bear be.POL This is a(n American) black bear. 熊は尻尾が短いです。 Kuma wa shippo ga mijikai desu. bear TPC tail SBJ be.short POL Bears have short tails. 嗅覚と聴覚は優れています。 Kyūkaku to chōkaku wa sugurete imasu. smell-sense an...

There are two words for 'animal' in Japanese: 動物, dōbutsu , which means "move-thing" (actually similar to 'animal', I guess), and 獣 kemono , which means "hair-thing". The word for irony is 皮肉 hiniku , which means "skin-meat". When you get angry or annoyed by someone els...

:con: Himmaswa http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/tc15.png Trauk ler yiam ley twarng chgoagok keun father belong.to people and be.at heaven TPC ngo ler pñau kermfiaum. name belong.to 2.HON be.sacred Fionduat ler pñau jart kingdom belong.to 2.HON come Wgoy ler pñau gaot will b...