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- Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Ja, ig iss a hi. Yes, I'm a he. Hà nẽu ngá «they» mà ciub'õuk kâ ôm lae tiub'û thĩng yí ẽe ciub'õuk. 2S CONT equal "they" INST LANG-human DED because COMP sex language NEG DAT LANG-human [hɑ̀ nɘ̰ ŋɑ́ sǣi mɑ̀ cɨɓo̰k kɑ̤ ʔɔ̤m lǣ tɨɓṳ tʰḭŋ jí ʔɛ̰ɛ cɨɓo̰k] You are still "they" in Proto- rəgyam because ...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Ci kos ha avi udra tiger an mi.jal wrote:Maynifisan. Sta montan layan kom dok. Wo lebl...
Great. From mountain lions to ducks. What a level...
JAL
[tʃí kos ha ávi úrːa tíɣer am mí]
1PS still AUX.1P see no-MOD.2B tiger COMP speak
I still don't see any talking tigers.
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Mi a kway taya fi lisn bo yunu tok bo dem beya an layan. A dis a olda mata yunu me tok bo dem? I'm pretty tired of hearing y'all talk about bears and lions. Is that all you can talk about? JAL Sen hai mig shanónis tiger du. [sén hai̯ miŋ ʃanóːnis tiɣérːu] 1PP AUX.1-PL be_able discuss tiger-PL We ca...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Łmiwošemet var The Hobbit , o isbum si. Voifës gu swerelzak ul var Babylon 5 . To šuisbem li, thav šalbraidem xyližot zvë gu li gus vasoz gkaž. read-PFV-PRS-1s-NOM ART The Hobbit, and like-PST-1s 3s.PROX. EPIS-be-PRS2*-3s.PROX ESS depressing TERM2 ART Babylon 5. NEG2 EPIS-like-PRS-1s 3s.OBV, but SJ...
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Ci ha citov saunékis kánso dia, soteu ci si kohiuo hau pai citov sarapur em hauo. [tsí ha tʃítov sau̯néːkis kã́(n)so ɟa | sóteu̯ tʃí si kóʃiwo hau̯ pai̯ tʃítov sárapur ẽ háwo] I keep meaning to write something, but I've been busy and keep forgetting about it. Tú séjer práte, egh séjer hin spansce m...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 11:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 152075
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Actually, I apparently have *still* been getting it wrong all this time. "upholster" is not a compound of "up" + "holster", and it apparently has a short o (/ɔ~ɒ~ɑ/ depending on dialect). That means either Ive never heard the word spoken out loud in my life, or there are other people getting it wro...
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 152075
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
In short, if I'd been reading the name, I would've said /ˌloːsˈgatoːz/, but instead I imitated his /ˌlasˈgætoːz/. I can understand the pronunciation of "Los", esp. given "Los Angeles", but /ˈgætoːz/ makes my teeth curl a bit. Oh. But with t-flapping it's probably something like [ˈgæɾoʊz]. "gaddows"...
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:05 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 152075
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
... Ghiradelli ... ... Ghiradelli ... Da(r)fuq. Though this reminds of a time years ago driving through Georgia, when my dad and I stopped at some place for dinner and were asking the waitress what sorts of beer they had and she mentioned one called " ... [ʤɪnɪs]?" . Other than that, I don't think ...
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Ci ha var jah mut. Komu mig un, ci si mauo jahaie. Óvueréssa konu beniki cin.
I kinda feel that way. Or maybe I'm just tired. School [i.e. University] wore me out.
On the other hand, I just discovered that Vaida Mi ha didn't have a word for "or". So that's fixed.
I kinda feel that way. Or maybe I'm just tired. School [i.e. University] wore me out.
On the other hand, I just discovered that Vaida Mi ha didn't have a word for "or". So that's fixed.
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:52 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
"Modify" probably isn't the best word to use here, but an entire adpositional phrase can itself "refer to" either a noun or a verb / whole sentence. Thanks for the clarification. However, I think that in traditional linguistics, in both cases "on the horse" is described as a PP, and in both cases "...
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
I thought I had some examples of languages (Semitic ones) where adpositions could only modify verbs, i.e. are adverbial, rather than being attributive, i.e. modifying nouns, but I am from looking back not quite as certain about this, so I will omit those examples. I have a bit of a problem with you...
- Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Wgachny'wh kryh chrsa'shllz yoch, nllth'ngyshy'yh xn? [wʊgaʧn̩jʔʊwh krih ʧr̩saʔʃl̩z jɒʧ nl̩θʔŋiʃjɪʔjih χn̩] use-1p.-past.imp. should constructed.language 1p-gen, be_correct-1p-pres.perf. query We should be using our conlangs, am I right? Sen anar hai. [sen ánar hai̯] 1PL should AUX1.PL We should. C...
- Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Ləneskâpní čəlxãydit yəvènə álēla cēġvàvə. [lɨneskɒːpˈniː tʃɨlˈχɒːjdit jɨˈʋenɨ ˈæːleːlɐ tseːʁˈʋɐʋɨ] Writing in a conlang is hard. Pai mus-e? Sen hai nigno guie, meuo uanaj. Vada min car ha koseuo ierauo. [pái̯ múse || sén hai̯ níŋno ɡúje | méwo wánadʒ || vá.a min tʃár ha kósewo jérawo] And? We come...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
we sort of use the Leipzig standard though. if you have a clitic you use an = sign to connect it instead of a dash. ya, mo kalamya tayo ka Hey! Where is your conlang? Ci ha kiumi korowo, Finlai . Soteu ... nehak uistot ha gus? :-) ( hwhatting sifaki ...) [tʃí ha cúmi kórowo | fínrai̯ || sóteu̯ ... ...
- Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
- Replies: 94
- Views: 39373
Re: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
Could a preposition before a noun end up prefixed to a verb (in SOV word order)? Why not, through prepositions > adverbs > prefixes? But it is the location that makes me feel it can't, and I could never figure out how to get something on one side of a word into being on the other side, not without ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
High tone. Vaida Mi ha has pitch accent rather than stress accent.schyrsivochter wrote:This is maybe a stupid question, but what do the acutes mean?Boşkoventi wrote:[... pái̯ san | z̪ánːu ɡó.uː úmi hoháːso múse]
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
::|| mɛ >kaalaaz< dɜi eemɛ mɔ̨i | mɛ mɔ̨i eth leepee ::: cashlɛ̨itsįjhee dɛ̨m ||:: My conlangs are in my mind; my mind is slow at translating into them Vadda uk si ihingi (uda). [vádːa uk si iʃíŋːi (ú.a)] that-C5 NEG COP excuse-NMLZ (MOD.NEG-C5) That is not (no*) excuse. * Double (i.e. repeated) ne...
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:49 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 741393
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Nehak uistoddu króu hau gus?
[néhak wistóddu króu̯ hau̯ ɡús]
Where's ur conlangs?
*Proper/formal:
Nehak uistoddu koróadu hadu gus?
[néhak wistóddu k(o)róː(.a).u há.u ɡús]
[néhak wistóddu króu̯ hau̯ ɡús]
Where's ur conlangs?
*Proper/formal:
Nehak uistoddu koróadu hadu gus?
[néhak wistóddu k(o)róː(.a).u há.u ɡús]
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How many words does your conlang have?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8773
Re: How many words does your conlang have?
does anyone here go at it and say "right, I'm going to do the colours!" and then make words for as many colours as you're likely to need or can think of, and then say "next - plants!" and do the same? Both. I tend to cover obvious categories like numbers and colors as sets, but otherwise add indivi...
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How many words does your conlang have?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8773
Re: How many words does your conlang have?
Old Gzho: 2080
Panaka: 296
Victot li Rhak: 1182
Mzta: 301
Vaida Mi ha: 907
Sntibo: 67
* Basically just counting word stems / lemmas / lexemes (i.e. ignoring inflected forms of verbs, etc.)
Panaka: 296
Victot li Rhak: 1182
Mzta: 301
Vaida Mi ha: 907
Sntibo: 67
* Basically just counting word stems / lemmas / lexemes (i.e. ignoring inflected forms of verbs, etc.)
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 418037
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
linguoboy wrote:Today, for the first time, I spotted the plural "magnum opi" in the wild.
*cries*
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:59 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Please call Stella — Polish edition
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2640
Re: Please call Stella — Polish edition
http://lescordesnoires.com/amtanehsa/so ... edySie.mp3
I probably sound a little bit ... uncertain / hesitant ...
I've long suspected that Polish should be spoken while (mildly) drunk. I'll try to make another recording soon, while sober.
I probably sound a little bit ... uncertain / hesitant ...
I've long suspected that Polish should be spoken while (mildly) drunk. I'll try to make another recording soon, while sober.
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Please call Stella — Polish edition
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2640
Re: Please call Stella — Polish edition
y u talk so fast
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: please call stella
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7437
Re: please call stella
It might be interesting to try this with a non-English elicitation text. Maybe Pole could provide us with one, so us Anglophones can all demonstrate how much worse we pronounce his language than he pronounces ours :P If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that? ;) Proszę! :-) --- Here's a...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7339
Re: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
If you grew up in the U.S. then place names ending in ee are as ubiquitous and American as apple pie. Tennessee, Milwaukee, Okeechobee, Menominee, Wausaukee, Missaukee, Kewaunee, Chatahoochee, Muskogee, Tuskegee, Tittabawassee, etc. I could go on for hours I was tempted to agree with you, but it tu...