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There was someone who was constructing a language where the specie has a hole between the oral and nasal cavity, which made new speech sounds possible. And some have been working on species with several sets of vocal cords. That was possibly me. The language was called Thént. Unfortunately it's bee...

Serafín wrote:cuter than otters.

BLASPHEMY

viwin a. missing (not in the sense of "lost"); lacking; in need of something. v. to be missing something; come up short; dissatisfy. The sense that something has been lost/misplaced is expressed with vin , of which viwin is formally an emphatic produced by reduplication. Next: the past (as in the p...

ësin v. place under restriction or parole, ground (as punishment).

Next: slippery

haln (halin, haln, halinum) n. plastic polymer
eori a. moldable, malleable

Next word: forget

Zhen Lin wrote:(But Firefox generally does the right thing with font substitutions anyway.)

I have never read a more blatant falsehood.

Speaking of all this, is there a way (in Chromium specifically) to override the font selection, peferably just on the board without affecting every other site? The default fonts used are fine until you start mixing them with fonts that actually contain all of the characters used around here.

There are occasions when I just want to write down some phonetic notation quickly and easily, and for that I may use X-SAMPA. Otherwise for my own notes, at least for things I've settled on and polished, I use exclusively IPA. I still use X-SAMPA on the board for compatibility, though. Aside from th...

Next word: lily, or some other flower representing purity The flower itself is ën [jen]. It doesn't represent purity or anything else, and for that matter neither does any other flower. Purity is another complex matter altogether... Or not that complex, I guess. The word cris [kr\Is] pretty much co...

äta n. saccade, a skipping motion; gap, interval. v. skip over

next: north

ćobob (ćobom, ćobomum) v. playfight, pretend fighting. This is distinguished from horseplay, which is not so much playfighting as careless playing that is likely to cause accidents.

next: mammal

prid v. ask for another chance (not necessarily the second); plead (the similarity is accidental)

Next: air

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containing MANY OTTERS + NOISE + FENCE

gen (ger, gen, gerum) n. yew tree or shrub, member of the family Taxaceae; wood of the yew.

Next: disrobe, undress

Since you forgot the next word, I'll give one: to handle, manipulate

KetziaNaren wrote:I find that when start working on grammar that I need more words....but when I start on vocabulary I find that I need to flesh out the grammar....vicious circle.

A viscious, conlang-producing cycle.



crusoec n. vinyl record. cruc "groove" + oec "disc"

Next: to have a seizure

äee [i:] oh, woe. Just a sound to make when lamenting or despairing. Yes, it's really pronounced [i:].

Next: carbon (as in the element or something related, like charcoal)

daupuet n . pineapple. (literally descriptive of a citrus fruit with tough spiny covering, "spiny citrus") I have a confession to make. I just needed some words for my new conlang, and I didn't feel like just translating a list of common words. I just started this thread so I could use you guys to ...

nëuvum , which is actually just the first person pronoun in the case that I normally refer to as "dative" because that's what it normally does, but it will also take this function now since I don't have any other way to express that yet. As for the suggestion, I thought it was a good one. There's n...

wäeraovor n. court trial. from wäera 'justice' + ovor 'trial, test, deliberation' (including scientific studies)

Next: between

niard n. cloud.

Next: vodka (or similar liquor as applicable)

śern (śerin, śern, śerinum) n. sign, notice, display. v. show, display, inform.

Next word: mouth

raibaǵ n. inspection, examination. v. inspect, examine, look closely.

Next word: neighbor

Let's get building our lexicons. It's easy to find a list of common words and translate them, but it's more fun to make it a game. It's as simple as this. I give a word to start. Somebody who doesn't already have a word for that in their lexicon makes one and then gives a word for the next person. B...

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