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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 ...

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).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

@Visions1: Are you Jewish? (My IRL surname is Landau, so . . .)

Laatiklantu was so cool. What happened to it?

Created and named a bunch of rivers, archipelagos, and islands. Got 168 299 new Kankonian words out of it.

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".

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?

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.

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 ...

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

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.

Today I learned this new Finnish word that I think would be a great name for a Finnish metal band . . .

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/visva

The diagram is up with these languages! More would still be appreciated, of course. Hmm, my script doesn't have underdots, though it does have breve below to indicate velars. The red line pointing to Vrkhazian means that it doesn't fit that criteria. I believe you mean " those criteria", ...

Arayaz wrote: ↑06 Mar 2024 18:03 Ah, that's it. Thanks, things make more sense now

You're welcome.

Edit: Oh, and this was my 1,100th post!

Congrats on your post milestone!

My parents and psychologist had had a three-person meeting several months before. After that meeting with Dr. Kirk, my father had told mne, "We'll always love you no matter what, James, no matter what ". When he said that, I had no idea what he meant. It wasn't until years after Dr Kirk t...