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I'm bisexual myself and don't see anything wrong with the plural "gays".

Didn't we routinely hear about "gays in the military" awhile back?

Dormouse559 wrote: brothel and bordello

Wait . . . those two aren't related?

If you go to http://khemehekis.angelfire.com/maritogram.gif you should be able to see it. Just reload if it doesn't show at first.

...The parties who wish to marry are recorded on a maritogram, a two-dimensional graph that shows the name of each entrant to the marriage going down, and against going across. At the place where any two names intersect, there is either a dot to indicate that the two are married to each other, a Ka...

Then what is marriage like in a sampling of cultures and religious traditions from your conworld?

Does your conworld have same-sex marriage, polygamy, child marriage, interspecies marriage, necrophiliac marriage, etc.? Is interracial or intercaste marriage banned? Kankonia has no government to recognize marriages; marriages are performed by religious officials, who are free to marry any number o...

I wasn't around for this, but I'm told Kalusa made ergative langs popular, and of course Brithenig made romlangs popular. According to David J. Peterson's Smiley Award , it was ámman îar that made ergative langs popular. Kalusa, I believe, was notable for being a collaborative conlang. Then there i...

The thing about Romlangs is that many of these are just mixtures of words that look and sound like Romance roots, without a regular derivation from Latin. Talossan is probably the best-known examples of these. Many Euroclones fit this pattern too. That's what conlangers hate about Romlangs.

I feel that if I take a few sentences describing the character's personal thoughts, I'll bog the story down and fall into the slippery slope of telling rather than showing. It's only "telling rather than showing" if some invisible third-person narrator is telling the story. Your story is ...

felipesnark wrote: I like this use of your verb 'to measure' for age. I'd like to borrow it for Shonkasika.

I'd be honored!

http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/naduta/day05.png Usta yata reta day tah-yhisdarey pitrey tah-ustarmu. 3-ANIM.NOM GEN-ANIM.NOM son-ANIM.NOM PST=raise-ATTR-ANIM.OBJ PST=slaughter-3 His son slaughtered the goats he raised. http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/naduta/day06.png Usta yata ...

Nice! I love the numerous, detailed, and often humorous example sentences, as always. [:D] If you don't mind my asking, what is an aphmyular? An aphmyular is a Sweet 13 party for coming of age into the Rasaphi religion, like a bar/bat mitzvah on Earth. On their thirteenth birthdays, Rasaphis have a...

Did a write-up on discussing age in Kankonian: Age is described with the verb "shta" (to measure): Is shtaas 20 oiras. 1sg measure-PRS 20 year-PL I am 20 years old. Nothan shtaas 3 blatzas. newborn measure-PRS 3 day-PL The newborn is 3 days old. Helemas ad is ayinen ad is ham glob av is sh...

Let's see what Kankonian has words for . . . "bootstrap", -- no word for this "Hawking radiation", -- no word for this "sandhi", -- nethudas (native Kankonian/Tze*ethik) "binomial theorem", -- bavedam edkun ( bavedam is native Kankonian/Tze*ethik, edkun is fr...

Foolster41 wrote:Alias(es): Foolster41
Location: Western Washington state.
Date of birth: April 1st, 1981

So this must be where the "Foolster" and where the 4 and 1 come from!

Relevant:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1961&p=95172#p95172

Question: Is there going to be semantic drift in any of those descendants?

Let's see what Kankonian has words for . . . "bootstrap", -- no word for this "Hawking radiation", -- no word for this "sandhi", -- nethudas (native Kankonian/Tze*ethik) "binomial theorem", -- bavedam edkun ( bavedam is native Kankonian/Tze*ethik, edkun is fro...

Or additive!

shimobaatar wrote: Hmm, interesting! I wish I had more to say, but it seems to me like you have the topic covered.

I hope I do!

(I could be wrong, but I think the first example's gloss might be a bit off regarding the pronoun?)

Damn it, you're right! I've edited it to change 1sg to 3sg.

Good catch!