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- Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
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Re: Lexicon Building
I just happened across this thread - that's a very nice idea. Is there a list anywhere of the words that have been proposed? Does someone check if a word has already been proposed, or doesn't anyone care? No list of words that I know of, apart this thread. Just go through it if you want to see. And...
- Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:06 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
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- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
anyam hayo kue kunye nala a [a:ɲam ha:jo kʷe: ku:ɲe na:la a:] eye-PL 3sg.POSS like moon to.light to.be Her eyes are lit like the moon. Maus les oils o se briller comme l'ac o la soleille. [maːs ɾaiː aːil so su pliːa kaːmː la ko la saːlailː] But his eyes shine like the Sun. (VLR) Vé lóm wónget sa xa...
- Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
anyam hayo kue kunye nala a [a:ɲam ha:jo kʷe: ku:ɲe na:la a:] eye-PL 3sg.POSS like moon to.light to.be Her eyes are lit like the moon. Whiese ? ['ʍiə̯.za] Whose? Isqw ki nswi ra qwgmar? [isqʷ ki nsʷy ɣa qʷɣmar] isqw ki insw-i ra qwg(m)-mar DEM.PL.M DEF.F.LOC woman-LOC REL.F 3PM>3PF...
- Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
Next word: rain Mzta: -uŋk [ɯŋk] (v) rain, shower -- dialectally also -unt [ɯnt] -- gyuŋk [ʝɯŋk ~ jɯŋk] "it's raining" ŋka [ŋka] (nf) "rain" -- also hmuŋk [χmɯŋk] (nf) "rainwater" --- *Ninja'd* >:-O Next word: rain Illyrian: Rein (n.n.) — Rain rennen (v.) — to rain Next Word: inappropriate, offensi...
- Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Thet Rhud fure Spettel ? [ðɛt ʁʉd fʉa̯ 'spɛt.ɛl] The Word for Spit? En theoria el verb mesm a "ascupir" vendria d'una onomatopeia (n'es is mais el cas n'inglés, l' escupir románic, etc.?) Presumably the word for "spit" would come itself from an onomatopeia (is it not the case in English, in romance...
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Back to Vaida Mi ha ... hiqwgyisy [χ(ɨ)qʷʝiç] Eng lentara adanya ku-sicyamanas. AT.INAN sound-3S.INAN that.T like=spit-PTCP-NMLZ-P That sounds like spitting. Midtua paskásak ma - tukana uinjavodu madu nu tinde sadre, uistotuo mauo an saga nu tinde tukansana? [míttwa paskáːsak ma | túkana wiɲːávo.u ...
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Eandil wrote:S'es folia total: [χqʷʝ]
That's total madness
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
New madness: Mqa twuhn. Mi hiqwgyisy tah tasw tkwhonw [mqa tʷuχn | mi χ(ɨ)qʷʝiç taχ tɒsʷ tkʷχʷonʷ] i-mqa twu-hn mi hi-qw-gyisy tah ta-sw tkwuh-onw 4P-hot here*-1P and PL-3PM-stupid MOD* INDEF.M-PL person-PL “It’s hot here. And people are stupid.” * twuhn means "here"; other forms of twu-...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:49 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
Next: grandeur , splendicity Vaida Mi ha: shof [ʃof] (adj., 1st decl.) "great, grand, awesome, wonderous" -- from Victot li Rhák shof "big, large" shoftuk [ʃóftuk] (n., class 5) "greatness, grandeur, awe"; (pl.) "wonders" (e.g. Seven Wonders of the World) -- from shof + -tuk "-ness, -ity" (forms no...
- Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926793
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Gelnanneu sunuitisapu lusefansu. Sinukusakakulikupete. [ɣɛːɬnɑnːəu̯ sunuinɪzɑːβu luzɛvənsu. ʃinuŋozɑːɣɑgodɮiguptɛ] There are too many Germanic languages! I must stop this. Ci ha kiumi. Emdu uk uin uagó, soteu haisa ma nu iamado. Sen nos sie murasag koso, pesis uardinet uadu! [tʃi ha cúmi || ẽ.u uk ...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Two kinds of patients?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7076
Re: Two kinds of patients?
For instance, you may have a dictionary definition under which the example you give is "correct". But a native speaker will use their "knowledge of the world" to observe that this example is semantically incorrect - that the vet is using an inappropriate word, with a meaning it does not have in "th...
- Wed May 30, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 486315
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Actually, it was "pease", with the singular "pea" being a back formation. (As if we derived "rie" to mean "a grain of rice".)Sinjana wrote:inb4 somebody mentions that "pea" used to be a mass noun in english
"want some more pea in your soup?"
"Want some more pease in your soup?"
- Sun May 13, 2012 7:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
Next: Portuguese saudade , longing for a relative or a beloved one who is far away from oneself. Vaida Mi ha: hangó [ˈhaŋːoː], hangov [ˈhaŋːov] / hangoven [ˈhaŋːoven] 1) (vb., atelic) "to yearn for (sth. lost / unobtainable); (noun, cl. 5) "yearning, longing"; ~ Pt. saudade ; "unrequited love; unfu...
- Tue May 01, 2012 8:52 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
Next word: Soramimi, i.e. words in a foreign language misheard as words in your language, usually nonsensical Vaida Mi ha: sarauinak [saráwinák] (noun, class 5) "(sth.) misheard, misunderstood" - from sara "wrong, false, incorrect" + uin "to hear, listen" + -ak past/passive participle saravan [sára...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 486315
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
I just watched this video where the guy talking has /ŋ/ or /ɴ/ for final /l/ in English, and it was really jarring to hear; at some points I couldn't tell what word he was saying. Has anyone else ever heard this pronunciation before? Time index for the impatient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTrM...
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
- Replies: 974
- Views: 203902
Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #38: Derivational Morphol
The Conlangery website has an entry for each podcast, including the Featured Conlang.finlay wrote:Have you got a list of all the languages that have been featured?
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
What the hell, man? GrinningManiac posted "Prostitute / Prostitution" as the Next Word, and you / Bristel ignored it. Soap was just picking up the slack. :-) Next Word: insane Vaida Mi ha: patua (a2) (origin unknown) "insane, crazy; irrational, senseless"; koro si patuaio "You're crazy" Next word: ...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 486315
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Your explanation here seems to actually make quite a deal of sense as a way to explain this without resorting to telicity (and the problems with its use here). About "We ate all the food / I ate snails", to me they are almost identical to "We've ate all the food / I've ate snails" respectively. I d...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
- Replies: 974
- Views: 203902
Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #38: Derivational Morphol
Look, it's really simple. People are mainly talking about Ollock et al. making an effort to contact the creators of conlangs. If someone puts their conlang online, but has no contact information with it, then frankly, that's their problem. And it really doesn't take much time or effort to see if the...
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 486315
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
While there is a definite imperfective versus perfective element here, with aten in particular being clearly imperfective, there is more going on here than just that... ... Yet I do not know of a better term for neatly summing this up a distinction between past completion and left open-ended as is ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
Next word: allergy Victot li Rhák: la kéta, la-kéta /laˈkeːta/ (> [laˈkeːta]); also lakéta /laˈkeːta/ (> [l̩ˈkeːta]) (n) "allergy, allergic reaction"; from la "powder, dust" (short for gáva la "tree dust", i.e. "pollen") + kéta "illness, disease, mallady" sometimes also drola kéta , from drola...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
next: to weigh in a balance or on a scale Victot li Rhák: ómosic /ˈoːmosit͡s/ (< ó- "stand, be" + mos "heavy") formal, scientific; considered artificial, stilted in coll. speech "to weigh, weigh sth."; lóm ómosot li vana mastim "it weighs 5 mastim", lóbam ixom ómosso vé "I weighed that (one) today"...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 913222
Re: Lexicon Building
Next Word: bargain Vaida Mi ha: siakar ["Sakar] (n. class 5) "bargain, (good) deal, value" cf. omtuk ["o~tuk] (n., class 5) "cheapness, inexpensiveness, economy; (a) bargain"; from om "cheap, inexpensive" Siakar refers to getting something at a low price relative to its value - i.e. a good deal, "g...
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:13 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Judgment Tests
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6226
Re: Judgment Tests
The sentence is grammatical for me, because when you construct a relative clause with "that" (or implied "that"), there is going to be a missing pronoun somewhere. The reason it sounds weird to some people on this board is because the pronoun that gets omitted has to be deleted from two places in t...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
- Replies: 322
- Views: 64056
Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
And .. now it's working. I can sorta hear the distinction between the Bulgarian words, but it's not clear.Boşkoventi wrote:File not found.Io wrote:Here is with both English and Bulgarian pronunciation, ideally we should probably compare native English 'prat' with a [ɾ] to Bulgarian. http://ireylo.free.fr/ptar1.wma