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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Eandil wrote:S'es folia total: [χqʷʝ]
That's total madness

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-...

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...

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 ...

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...

Sinjana wrote:inb4 somebody mentions that "pea" used to be a mass noun in english

"want some more pea in your soup?"

Actually, it was "pease", with the singular "pea" being a back formation. (As if we derived "rie" to mean "a grain of rice".)

"Want some more pease in your soup?"

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...

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...

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...

finlay wrote:Have you got a list of all the languages that have been featured?

The Conlangery website has an entry for each podcast, including the Featured Conlang.

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: ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

Boşkoventi wrote:

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

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And .. now it's working. I can sorta hear the distinction between the Bulgarian words, but it's not clear.