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sano wrote:next: shed; canopy; shack

Xuála: cuánti /ʃuˈanti/ 'shed', 'shack'; 'refuge' (from canti /ˈʃanti/ 'take shelter'; 'take refuge'; 'refugee')

Next word: tongue (of a shoe)

My latest language, Xuáli, lacks a difference between nouns and verbs. It is as though all verbs have been replaced by agent nouns. To say "I will kill you" you essentially say "I = future killer-of you". Consequently, transitivity is treated in exactly the same way as a genitive relationship. Trans...

Hehe. There was actually a six or seven metre drop down onto some spiky bushes and jagged rocks a few centimetres past me. [QUALITY OUTDOORS WEAR FOR TOUGH MANLY MEN ], then :D Some would see me risking my bodily integrity (possibly even life) for a cool photo to be extraordinarily vain, but I'll t...

[Photo] TASMANIA This looks like an ad for [QUALITY OUTDOORS WEAR] 1 . 1 I would use an actual label but I do not go into outdoorsy outdoors, so I wouldn't know. Hehe. There was actually a six or seven metre drop down onto some spiky bushes and jagged rocks a few centimetres past me. Two questions ...

TASMANIA

@Derward, you look good. You like you're a young 27 and a half. :wink: Thank you. I would be wholly engaged by your commiseration were you to put the bloody r's in their right places. Blame my typo on my constantly asking myself if it is Derwad or Dewrad. As a linguisticky person, don't you remembe...

"I called you" does not mean "I called you and successfully contacted you". "I was going to call you" means you didn't attempt this.

"I was going to taste the soup but it tasted awful."

I don't look White American, I look quite Mediterranean/Middle Eastern, hence I'm "ethnic" by Murrican standards. The worst credit I ever saw for someone in a movie was "Ethnic girl". I don't remember what movie it was. The Westminster is warped because apparently that's how iPhones make panoramic ...

pharazon wrote:Io = ethnic Mulder

Um, isn't everyone "ethnic" ??

you don't look like you could tear me limb from limb with your bare hands, and you don't have a face that screams "I just got out of prison". Haha, I laughed out loud at this! And no, I'm definitely not that type, I could barely snap a twig. XD (not really but you get my point) But thanks nonethele...

what do you mean by "inferred ergative"? sounds very unclear. Really, in most ergative languages that permit similar gas in coordintion, it's the man that leaves, even though he isn't overtly absolutive anywhere. Since your question is unclearly stated, I cannot really answer whether you're mislead...

Imralu, you and your boyfriend are indeed schmexy. Are you into bears/otters? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/128304170_2639608386.jpg Um, they're really cute and all, but we're not cool with bestiality. :D Seriously, I find the whole labelling thing quite tedious (although labels can be quite han...

[quote="finlay"][...]the people I was walking around (who I don't know particularly well but it's better than knowing no-one!) with [...][quote] Haha, the with should have been on the left side of the brackets. Before I got to it, I pictured you literally walking in circles around people and I thoug...

"to pierce, puncture, perforate" Niwari: metcol "pierce", "puncture" memmetcol "perforate" (from metcol + reduplication) Etymology: tcol from Eng. through (whence Niw. tcu 'pass through') and Eng. hole (cf. Niw. bejol 'hole in the ground', 'grave', from Eng. bury + hole ). Memmetcol is derived thro...

My boyfriend's the perfect husband because he'll do whatever I ask him to o , no questions asked. Except, of course, for the first question in which you ask him to do something ... :P As it so happens, I think I might be in the process of meeting a nice boy. Isn't meeting someone for the first time...

Actually, what surprises typologists and researchers wrt ergative languages is that in most of them, it's still the man that leaves. The number of ergative languages that have an absolutive pivot are vanishingly few, and most actually have an underlying nominative pivot. Would that mean the second ...

Viktor77 wrote:You need to post a pic of you and your boyfriend.

I'm at work now, but I will when i get home. We're both dressed like lumberjacks, ha!
You'll find it if you look through my pics on facebook.

I appreciate you sharing your story with me. I had no idea others were going through the same situation (though statistically I should have realised). :D That's why I shared it. I know he wants it really bad, and I am unwilling to compromise. That probably makes me the jerk in the relationship beca...

It's a bit like the time that I went to the cinema with my sister and the guy behind the bar obviously thought she was my girlfriend... Ugh, that's happened to me. She's 12 years older than me!!! When my sister and I were 12 and 10 (respectively), people thought we were twins. Identical male twins....

kelemta wrote:Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: [...] Auslan

You should. It's fun.

kelemta wrote:Religion: Agathist[...]

You're a follower of Agatha Christie?

Next word: leather Niwari: pil 'leather', 'skin' (from English 'peel' on analogy with fruit peels, cf. English skin which has become Niwari skin meaning 'clothing', and English leather which has become Niwari lera meaning 'money pouch', 'wallet'). Next word: tyre ( tire for the Americans, as in the...

YngNghymru wrote:You mean like this?

Oh, yes. Pretty close. My bad. That looks more complicated than my idea. I tried to search for it but didn't find it under "semantic drift".

Niwari: <insert standard fantasy phoneme inventory here, minus /θ/ and /ð/> Consonants. m n b d g p t k f s ʃ h v z ʒ l j w All consonants except /h/ may be single or geminate. The phoneme /d/, when not geminate is pronounced as [ɾ] between vowels or between a preceding semivowel and a following vow...

Xephyr wrote:Omg you only have 2 of /p t k ?/ I'm calling the police on you!

I wouldn't hold out much hope of them ever getting there. I called the police on Hawaiian a while ago and aside from a few postcards, I've heard nothing from them since. *sigh*

This thread is for anyone who's doing diachronics and not quite sure what to do with semantic drift. Basically, anyone like me. I'm having fun with sound changes and grammatical changes, but semantic changes are a bit more difficult for me. I've come up with a few changes that I'm happy with (for ex...