The CBB

I really like this sentence from the April speedlanging thread which was started by GoshDiggityDangit, but unfortunately I lack the motivation to do a speedlanging challenge right now. Therefore, and also because there haven't been many translation challenges recently, I have decided to extract the ...

A fellow Hollow Knight enjoyer! [<3] As always with these challenges, I will try to make them rhyme in :con: Yélian. Væ vástia bicʻi vitan fecun èndral è capasé, Cityæzedʻi sao manvast, cityaucvalti væ savamé Cu uzegoretnæra, sao oyon renut yitreinʻi nuínyovats, Pès neral è tsapis, vat manciedasatsè...

On the microwiki page, you state that Qarskī is an Indo-Europeam language. If so, is it in its own branch or is it related to other IE languages of the area, such as Persian? Do you have etymologies for the sword terms? One that struck me as odd is "swordsk", as to the best of my knowledge...

Yay, a new translation challenge at last! There have been way too few in the last months. Thanks a lot GoshDiggityDangit! :con: Yélian This series of very short sentences is atypical for Yélian, but I tried to stay faithful to the original metric as much as possible. A'teriyscezed yivitarit »Peetuuk...

See, this is what we mean with If you foresee that you have a very busy or stressful week before your turn begins, or shortly thereafter, kindly give a heads-up in time and we can shift you further back in the queue. Exams rarely just fall from the sky, normally you know the date (at least the appro...

ooh, that's good to know! (I knew about the copy menu- I use that quite often!) I will try out that Brazilian Portuguese keyboard layout. thanks! I personally always use the web page ipa.typeit.org/full . It has almost every IPA character and suprasegmental, and with a keyboard it's really easy to ...

:con: Caelian Zan sarnalyeng Zabyaly zallokyawy mak bye, ür Zan vaplekyen nülnal bye? [zan ʒaɾnaˈʎɛŋ zaˈbʲaʎ zalɔˈkʲaʋ mak bʲɛ, yɾ zan vaplɛˈkʲɛn nylˈnal bʲɛ] 2SG.NOM bag.INN 2SG.GEN=INN cucumber.POSS INDEF.FEM.POSS COP.2SG>3SG, or 2SG.NOM view.BEN happy COP.2SG>3SG Do you have a cucmber in your bag...

DzêtaRedfang wrote: ↑15 Apr 2023 21:12

Man in Space wrote: ↑15 Apr 2023 11:24 I will be passing the torch in a few minutes.

Just don't forget to send me a copy with the English!

I think you accidentally deleted Man in Space from the torch queue, didn't you?

Torch sent to Opipik!

Man, normally I don't have the slightest issue to finish my torch within 72 hours, but somehow this time it really cost me a lot of effort. Sorry for the delay, folks.

Iyionaku wrote: ↑12 Apr 2023 15:10 And received!

Update: I just finished to translate the text into English. As I'm already late I will use Yélian, which is easier as I'm somewhat fluent in it and I have a grammar sketch almost ready. However, this will still probably take me till tomorrow evening. Sorry for the delay!

Why no "banana"? The sentence isn't actually asking about the fruit, it's about emotions. The sentence is asking about a visible object in phallic shape though, meaning that the speaker wondered if the listener is sexually aroused. It doesn't have to be a banana per se, but unless your co...

And received!

Thanks for organizing this time, Dzêta! I'll happily assume the backseat again.
I'll join either with Yélian or Paatherye, not sure yet.

You missed the chance to take a completely different title and thereby rick-rolling the entire CBB. [xP] :con: Yélian Yivitaro Rick Astley, èpa sat cidiysrozursai! [ɕɨʋɨˈtaːɾɔ̈ ɾik ˈastlɛɪ̯, ɛpɐ sɐt‿ɨda̯iːsɾɔ̈ˈɟursaɪ̯] PST-name-INV.1SG Rick Astley, and 2SG.OBL NEG-ever-FUT-give_up-1SG "My name ...

Happy New Year, everyone! Many, many thanks to VaptuantaDoi, Iyionaku, Titus Flavius, Jackk, DesEsseintes, KarakTea, Johnathan_4, spanick, tokibuni, Knox Adjacent, Man in Space, qwed117, Ælfwine, Dormouse559, Khemehekis, KaiTheHomoSapien, and Glenn (hopefully I haven't missed anyone) for participat...

I akudde kie gu bo tákí asa á gásaid iá. [i̯àkùɾdɛ̀ ki̯ɛ̀ɣùβɔ̀ tákí àsà áɣásài̯ɾ i̯á] So I'm looking forward to lots of warm weather. Yaistest æn'ilvatan o'reconitiy væ Barcelona, cu Ɲ̇(C)i 22. Yeifálselai parcaroides u cristbrand! Vat can rat yibet oyrasquet. [ˈʃaɪ̯stəst ənɨlˈvaːtɐn ɔ̈ɾəkɔ̈ˈniːta̯...

So, this Lexember was once again a big success for the Yélian dictionary. I could add a total of 172 new entries to the lexicon, pushing it to a total of 6,415 entries. I might be able to reach 7,000 before the language's 10th birthday in spring 2024! Æn'aoparda vinét æ'iavuna o'mepeʻin can cenim îy...

Is this something introverts have? (I'm an extrovert, and as such I don't know the concept.) And would it be similar to the mentally ill community's concept of spoons? Yes, it is! I like going out and meeting friends, I'm not really shy either, but after a couple days without "me-time" I ...

Finally I'm back at home and can get back to shimo's weekly feedback! Not a big deal, of course, but I assume you mean "crow"? Yeah of course! I just became aware that I have written this word wrong for all my live. I guess I confused it with the onomatopoeia for the sound of a crow, which...

Lexember 29 - Yélian marnó [mɐɾˈnoː] - memory (sum of all memories) Etymology: marn "(single) memory" + collective suffix -ó USAGE NOTES: As with other words ending on the collective suffixes -ó or -mé, this word is always in plural. Yimavai pi pès sat difecovetvain apárcamay. Reo distinc...