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- 11 Dec 2023 07:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Th/e/nk. I meant more widespread, something found in RP and GenAm. What dialect is that though? I've seen it given with /eɪ/ in the area around New York? Australian. And with no other crossover between /e/ and /æ/ (actually there *is* one example in the opposite direction; h/æ/llo). Both are widesp...
- 08 Dec 2023 06:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Not that English spelling and pronunciation have a great correspondence, but the pronunciation with /e/ doesn't even make sense looking at broader patterns in the language. The only instances of stressed <a> saying /e/ that I can think of are "any" and "many". (Curious if anyone...
- 07 Dec 2023 04:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think he ─ and I, for what it's worth ─ are using the same vowel we use in "consonant." I'm not trying to defend condescending prescriptivism, which it may very well be, but I find the latter pronunciation more natural. As I said, the issue I really took was the way he expressed it, but...
- 07 Dec 2023 02:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Could you elaborate? I don't remember anything about pronunciation... Right near the beginning when they're introducing topic. She says it as conson/æ/ntal (in agreement with the Oxford, Cambridge, Merriam Webster and American Heritage dictionaries), and he just keeps insisting that it's conson/e/n...
- 05 Dec 2023 19:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 319
- Views: 13817
Re: Lexember 2023
I might have to yoink your customary-agentive suffix destinction. Esperanto does something similar with -anto and -isto I believe Yeah, its primary use has more of a connotation of "should" than -isto does and I use it a lot. It more or less provides a non-episodic interpretation and indi...
- 05 Dec 2023 16:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 319
- Views: 13817
Re: Lexember 2023
6th of Lexember zam "be a wheeled vehicle" from the ornative za "with", "having" plus yum "wheel". zaram "be a large, wheeled vehicle", with the augmentative infix -ar- . Zam evolved out of tihased (litters/palanquins/sedan chairs) to which wheels w...
- 05 Dec 2023 07:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An Ant Language [in-language name to be determined]
- Replies: 11
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- 05 Dec 2023 06:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1676
- Views: 347349
- 05 Dec 2023 05:47
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
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Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
But then the question becomes if you can go into space as easily a we take a flight then why have this overengineered train thing? Because it's fun? 🤣 If you enjoy thinking about it, a nutcase gajillionaire space tree doggo might like the idea too. Just throwing out ideas, but maybe also, one way o...
- 04 Dec 2023 15:14
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
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Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm no economist, so I have no idea if this would make sense, even for a Kardashev II civilization, particularly since I've already established that normal space colonies exist to fill this need. But the idea just sounds too cool to ignore. You could justify it if your society has rampant capitalis...
- 04 Dec 2023 15:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 319
- Views: 13817
Re: Lexember 2023
5th of Lexember
yumenauh "be a pulley" (from yum "be a wheel", -e- LK2, nauh [nau̯ʍ] "be a rope")
yumenauh "be a pulley" (from yum "be a wheel", -e- LK2, nauh [nau̯ʍ] "be a rope")
- 04 Dec 2023 05:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 319
- Views: 13817
Re: Lexember 2023
1st of Lexember heŋam 'be a couple", 'be a pair of lovers' (from he 'two' + ŋam 'be loved sexually/romantically') 2nd of Lexember hedož 'be a fork' (in a path, road, river. lightning etc.), figuratively also: 'be a dichotomous decision with life-changing consequences' 3rd of Lexember šigam 'us...
- 29 Nov 2023 04:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
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Re: False cognates
* Georgian კაკაბი [kʼakʼabi] "patridge" * Maori kākāpō [kaːkaːpɔː] "kakapo" both words are used to indicate types of birds, though different types As far as I can tell, these are derived from the birdcalls via onomatopoeia, so it may not be too surprising. Yes, kākā in Māori is ...
- 29 Nov 2023 04:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Step-cousin and step-step-cousin
- Replies: 3
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Re: Step-cousin and step-step-cousin
Yes. And don't forget a step-step-step-cousin, a step-parent's step-sibling's step-child. With three steps being taken, we may as well just say "walking-cousin". I'm weird with kinship terms. On the one hand, I don't really like the topic of family very much, so all my conlangs have very s...
- 28 Nov 2023 07:14
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: A saw B and died
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5548
Re: A saw B and died
ok, relative and mobile genders... I was wondering what the "DEF=" gloss meant... DEF.R1 = definite, rank one. Not really genders though. They fulfil some of the same functions as gender, disambiguating between 3rd person referents (although more reliably than gender does, because it fall...
- 27 Nov 2023 14:23
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: TC: I watered my flowers yesterday [ADDED MORE]
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Re: TC: I watered my flowers yesterday [ADDED MORE]
Eo[...] eo[...] /ɛɔ[...] ɛɔ[...]/ Eo[...] eo[...] 1SG[...] 1SG[...] I [...] Eo[...] el [...] eo[...] /ɛɔ[...] ɛɔ [...] ɛɔ[...]/ Eo[...] el [...] eo[...] 1SG[...] 1SG [...] 1SG[...] I [...](I[...]) [...] The pronunciation and the gloss is the same, so why is the instance I've marked red spelt <el> i...
- 27 Nov 2023 14:15
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: A saw B and died
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5548
Re: A saw B and died
oops, it's a gender thing... and if both participants have the same... No, it's not, that's just the analogy I used. It's based on rank, which I've explained here (although some of it might be a bit outdated or a poor explanation of how it's conceptualised now). In my example, I've given the woman ...
- 27 Nov 2023 07:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1676
- Views: 347349
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In English, one can nominalize a verb and state its patient by using the genitive (" the eating of vegetables is beneficial for one's health"). In addition, one can state the agent with a possessive construction (" my running in the rain has left me wet"). I assume that English ...
- 25 Nov 2023 17:16
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: A saw B and died
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5548
Re: A saw B and died
:con: Balog: Wež o hhuŋ šev ellas da yog oo . Wež ohhuŋ šev e llas da yog ee . does this mean that oo/ee particles reverse morphosyntactic alignment... No, not at all. There is no morphosyntactic alignment to speak of because there is no transitivity. Ee and oo are basically just pronouns that rela...
- 25 Nov 2023 05:26
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: A saw B and died
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5548
Re: A saw B and died
:con: Balog: Wež o hhuŋ šev ellas da yog oo . wež oo=huŋ | šev ee=las | da <iy>-og oo use.eye DEF.R3=man | visible DEF.R4=woman | then <INCEP>-to.death DEF.R3 The man saw the woman and died (somehow). Wež ohhuŋ šev e llas da yog ee . wež oo=huŋ | šev ee=las | da <iy>-og ee use.eye DEF.R3=man | visib...