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Next word: satellite Xuáli: maic - moon, natural satellite uia maic - (artificial) satellite (literally "moon device" - the Ahu, as Xuáli speakers are now known, have not encountered these before but if they did, that is what they would be called) Next: epitome (of X), archetypal (X), archetype, ty...

@ Jal: I think you misunderstood Io, as he possibly did you too, but I agree with the rest of what you said. I also just want to say that I for one am not posting pictures of myself in order to be told that I'm hot. I don't need an ego boost on the internet. I just think it's fun to share pictures. ...

But do I understand correctly that you believe this thread should be gay-only, and straight guys 'n' galls should be gone? Huh? Obviously, I don't set the rules, and I can't speak for Io, but of course straight people are welcome here. That's such a big "duh!". People who are bothered by the presen...

next: reptile,(lizard, turtle, snake, alligator) Kanic Xuáli (spoken by the general populace): halatehu - reptile, any scaly animal (usually not including fish) (from hala 'skin' and tehu 'scale, tile') tcarak - lizard, skink, gecko, any small reptile with four legs and no shell (hence tcaragdak or...

The really weird thing is when you get the odd chest hair just poking through the fabric of your shirt. I don't mean poking out the top, I mean, actually poking through. :/ YES! Or through the ... hang on! What do you call that ... the thing where the buttons are ... slit? (New word for my conlang ...

Skomakar'n wrote:Next word: to run (of liquids, et c.); to [be] pour[ed]

Xuáli:
suéhi - to run, to flow, to be poured
Hence:
dasue - river, torrent (from da(a) 'large')
tsisue - stream, creek, riverlet (from tsim 'small')

Next: daunting, imposing, intimidating

Suomi is outo. (Or is that "outoa"? I don't even know anymore.) Why is it "Musiikki on kaunista" instead of "kaunis"? Mä en tiedä. Suomi on vain niin. As was explained before, I think it has to do with whether the subject, musiikki refers to a specific or a general concept. I'm just as confused as ...

Next: to swagger, walk with a wide stance Kala: titsua Similar to the word in Ewed, an old conlang of mine which is being adapted into Xuáli: tatsung ... it also had the 1S pronoun na . The Xuáli word is different though: umbal next: pros and cons; advantages and disadvantages; gains and losses Xuá...

Next word: stout, sturdy, strongly-built Xuáli: dav - thick, stout, heavily built, beefy, burly (emphasising thickness across two dimensions, eg. fingers, arms, legs, body, man, stick, branch, tree trunk) tsahu - durable, strong, sturdy, strongly-built; fort, fortress, stronghold, fortified; tough,...

Well, I may have gotten that one phrase wrong, but I didn't use Google Translate for it. I was just not paying attention to the words I was using. I just thought it was funny that you said 'That's so wrong' and then proceeded to "correct" it to a phrase that would be, I assume, much harder for a Fi...

Do you freckle? You don't look like you get freckly. I have pale skin too, so I avoid attempting to tan because I get freckles and they never seem to go away. Yeah, I freckle. I call it a "cluster tan". One time I walked past a tanning salon and there was this big beefcake guy with his bimbo girlfr...

Oh I see, then "kumpi on väärin?" would have been better. :wink: It's difficult to say what exactly the difference is, but IMO väärin is used when there's something wrong with a thing, while väärä is used when you have picked the wrong option. Ok, that makes sense to me. They're different meanings ...

Mikä on väärä? This means "which one is wrong?" Väärä is an adjective, while väärin is an adverb. Well, I actually meant something like that because I didn't know if he was referring the "Minä haluan tuota paitaa" or "Sano moi! Opin suomen kieltä ja haluan puhua." That was completely by mistake tho...

Imralu: What happened to your beard? That's a few years old. I'm still bearded. And, also, a lot of my friends up in Wisconsin complained about their propensity for being scorched by the sun rather easily thanks to having the typical ginger complexion. I'm not surprised, as it seems like you qualif...

next: tracks; trail; footprint Xuáli: zun - evidence, trace, sign zun du - footprint ("foot evidence") zun umu - trail of footprints, tracks ("walker evidence") zun alu - animal tracks ("animal evidence") (tsu) sela zun - tracker ("(professional) evidence follower") (tsu) orua zun - detective ("(pr...

trollface.jpg S o r r y ! Das mach ich nicht weiter. I hate not being able to match the gloss to the morpheme spatially across the page (and I'm too lazy to use the code feature). When you've got full-stops and hyphens, I find it really hard to count the number of words from the left side to work o...

Minä haluan tuota paitaa. (I want to buy that shirt.) Minä = 1SG haluan = want.1SG tuota = that.DEM.SG.PARTITIVE paitaa = shirt.SG.PARTITIVE "I want that shirt." The verb haluta , 'to want', takes objects in the partitive case. As far as I can tell, this sentence is correct. On se niin väärin! Mikä...

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Bristel wrote:On se niin väärin!

Mikä on väärä?

You’re a cute couple, but your skin is much nicer than his :mrgreen: I think my boyfriend would prefer Ossicone's boyfriend's skin. It looks sunburnable. I don't know why but he likes too-pale-to-function skin. The other day, I sat next to an albino guy on the ferry and his skin was darker than min...

Yagia wrote:next: ignite

en X = "to become X", "to begin to (be) X", INCEPTIVE
dxe = CAUSATIVE
kal = "to burn", "(be) on fire", "fire"

en kal = "to ignite" (intransitive)
dxe kal ua X = "to ignite X", "to set fire to X", "to light X"

Next: wide, broad

Ulan wrote:next: dreadlock/dreadlocks/dreads

Xuáli:
pelictu = "dreadlock(s)"
(from pel "hair on the head" + ictu "snake", ie. "snake hair")

Next: knuckle

I think Imralu means that he generally likes both (a) synthetic languages and (b) head-initial languages. Unfortunately, languages which are both synthetic and head-initial tend to have mostly prefixing morphology, which he doesn't like. Cha-ching! That's it exactly. The solution here is to cheat a...

I prefer the look and feel of synthetic languages but because I prefer a certain morpheme order (modifiers following their heads) and have a dislike of prefixes, I usually end up with isolating languages. My latest lang, Xuáli, is the only lang I have made recently which has any bound morphemes at a...

Simmalti wrote:

MisterBernie wrote:whereas people who only see the shirt are almost afraid to talk to be about it.

I don't blame them, you do look rather scary at first

But what's the least scary thing in the world? RAINBOWS!