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- Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:58 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318598
Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot
For the life of me I can't figure out why MS Word hyphenates "dwarven" as "dwa-rven", unless /rv/ is somehow a legitimate syllable onset in the Redmond dialect of English.
Re: Dheknami
My guess on this is that muchye refers to the same animal Verdurian bardinó does, and bardinó is translated coyote.
- Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322041
Re: The dream thread
I dreamed the US and Russia had decided to settle the Ukraine dispute with a basketball game instead of a war. Regulation play ended in a tie, 82-82. Didn't get to see what happened in overtime because I woke up. I'm not sure what significance the number 82 has in this - 1982 was the year the Falkla...
- Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Con-Programming Languages
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8190
Re: Con-Programming Languages
The conculture's off-computer mathematical notation would need to be taken into account as well - in most programming languages, we type something like "if (x < y)" rather than "if x is (strictly) less than y". This may present its own localization challenges if your conworld does not have a univers...
Re: Shrayom
Soa imonelirea voyorië - tšure!
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 209111
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
What the heck is a "hydronym" even supposed to be? A word named after a body of water?Drydic Guy wrote:Really, he lost me withMany years ago I noticed strange similarities between Irish and Serbian mythology, language, toponymes and hydronymes
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:04 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322041
Re: The dream thread
I had a rather awesome and yet annoying dream because I should have gone lucid at a certain point and yet didn't. I (my dream self) was sleeping in my bed when I heard some rustling going on and found someone who was supposed to be my coworker rummaging through my backpack apparently trying to steal...
- Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228778
Re: Confusing headlines, and other trips down the garden pat
Front and center on my Google News:
"Michelle Obama takes on heckler before crowd"
Did she take on the heckler in front of a crowd, or did she take on the heckler prior to taking on the crowd?
"Michelle Obama takes on heckler before crowd"
Did she take on the heckler in front of a crowd, or did she take on the heckler prior to taking on the crowd?
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114235
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Several rather specific animal names: drake (male duck) flange (a group of baboons) jill (female of various animal species) jack (male of various animal species) sawt (a group of lions; "pride" is more common and, in that sense, is quite technical) shoat (recently weaned piglet) Then there's also pi...
- Thu May 16, 2013 6:47 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What if William the Conqueror had been defeated in Hastings?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12887
Re: What if William the Conquerer had been defeated in Hasti
This is the most important part.KathAveara wrote:All it means is we never got the core vocab that we did get, plus whatever orthographical nightmares came with.
- Thu May 16, 2013 6:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What if William the Conqueror had been defeated in Hastings?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12887
Re: What if William the Conquerer had been defeated in Hasti
Yes, but not exactly. A Norman defeat doesn't necessarily mean the English would be spurred towards maintaining "linguistic purity" - there would still be Greek/Latinate loanwords, just not necessarily as many, and not necessarily with the same connotations.
- Sun May 12, 2013 6:48 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322041
Re: The dream thread
I dreamed I was updating, as a job, a database of people's progress in Pikmin Let's Plays, while watching a weird trivia game on which most of the questions were questions about previous iterations of the trivia game.
- Thu May 09, 2013 6:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What if William the Conqueror had been defeated in Hastings?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12887
Re: What if William the Conquerer had been defeated in Hasti
William the Would-Be Overrunner?Hallow XIII wrote:Now that I think of it, you might want to give William the Conqueror his proper name in the title... ^^
- Wed May 08, 2013 9:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What if William the Conqueror had been defeated in Hastings?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12887
Re: What if William the Conquerer had been defeated in Hasti
I don't see an English with a defeated William the Conqueror looking identical to Anglish. There would be borrowings, but likely not as many. For meats, we'd likely just use the animal name as we do for chicken , turkey , and other more "exotic" forms of meat that we don't have a French-derived word...
- Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228778
Re: Confusing headlines, and other trips down the garden pat
More, these all from the New York Times' U.S. news main page. "Charlotte Mayor Is Chosen as Transportation Chief" 1. "The mayor of Charlotte is chosen..." 2. "Someone named 'Charlotte Mayor' is chosen..." (cf. Melissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo) "California: Prisons Ordered to Move Some Inmates" So in ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Siųa
- Replies: 104
- Views: 28753
Re: Siųa
I love that you are providing your cultural explanations in Siwa as well as in English. A rather useful way of building the language, that.
- Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228778
Re: Confusing headlines, and other trips down the garden pat
"Marine biologists probe cause of sick sea lion pups" 1. [Marine biologists] probe [cause of...] (i.e. the marine biologists are probing the cause) 2. [Marine biologists probe] [cause of...] (i.e. a probe of marine biologists is the cause) "Abu Dhabi plans financial free zone, may resemble Dubai" 1....
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:52 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 322041
Re: The dream thread
I had a dream in which I was walking through this expansive video-game world analogous in general setup to a stage from Super Mario 64, but with better graphics. Then a dragon showed up and started breathing fire at me, so I had no choice but to climb into the pipe that was near me. Fortunately, the...
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:43 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conphysics and Calling a Rabbit Smeerp
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3266
Re: Conphysics and Calling a Rabbit Smeerp
You're mostly right, though I think if electrons were snowflakes they wouldn't be electrons any more, if you see what I mean. It's clearly a spectrum. Right. For me, the salient criteria that would justify calling something an "electron" are twofold and as follows: 1. It is microscopic - you can't ...
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:01 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: national anthems of Almea
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7603
Re: national anthems of Almea
"Sharp Dressed Gelálh", perhaps?zompist wrote:I thought I had mentioned somewhere that Verduria's anthem is "Far above Eärdur's waters", but apparently not.
For Dhekhnam, let's see... "Who's that Gelálh"... "Workin' Gelálh"... "Gelálh Just Wants to Have Fun":.. OK, maybe not.
- Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:18 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 765401
Re: Help your conlang fluency
bē ʂapɔ̄dēɳu bɛn āwɛdit ond bɔsādɛva sfoɖa: kāʐ skyrtāv prētɛzaɬjɛ fim ɔlu ɣa lōmaktī ʐɛ kāʐ būlurɛk mȳse āwɛdɛ timū bē bɔsa. bjō māgjeɳɛtɛʂi umpixātɔn ānø̄l fim baru tāsvɛ̄ bɛn bosɬāɣ ɣa stylmī agērɛv. the.abs story the.gen make:NMLZ 1s.dat conworld new: a.lat twelveyear together-come.pst the.pl.a...
- Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 765401
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Allöna, ma naidi kapissu samaguųa "nouseđi leen lęęnda runduųat" :P Ąlihnahi njęn ąŧad śalen, sųa anduhho sę kulas loudammiusen! Drat, I seem to have caught "perpetually changing basic elements"-itis :P Even being 9 years old doesn't protect Sjal from improvements! ɽēdon ɛm irēr da vɛ̄l hūn speak:P...
- Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:40 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 652191
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Really?Jerian wrote:[
b̰æ̰k̰ ɪ̰n̰ m̰ɑ̰ḭ d̰ḛɪ̰, w̰y̰ s̰p̰o̰ʊ̰k̰ t̰ʰṵʊ̰ æ̰ṵʊ̰r̰ ɛ̰l̰d̰ɜ̰ʁ̰z̰ w̰ɪ̰θ̰ ə̰ b̰ɪ̰t̰ m̰o̰r̰ r̰ɛ̰s̰p̰ʰɛ̰ʔ̰t
- Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 765401
Re: Help your conlang fluency
itara ɖistua fim kjaʂārɛk bɛn rūmāʂ.
perhaps get.rid:IMP def.pl.abs differ:NMLZ def.sg.gen long:quality
Get rid of the length contrasts, perhaps?
(Apparently my brand-new abs/erg conlang becomes nom/acc in imperatives... go figure.)
perhaps get.rid:IMP def.pl.abs differ:NMLZ def.sg.gen long:quality
Get rid of the length contrasts, perhaps?
(Apparently my brand-new abs/erg conlang becomes nom/acc in imperatives... go figure.)
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:36 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So malsfaom ďin et muatë
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3799
Re: So malsfaom ďin et muatë
Maybe. Maybe not.Yiuel Raumbesrairc wrote:Do you want to play a D&D game in Almea
Hardest part of the translation IMO was, somehow, remembering to use definite articles. Still not entirely sure I put them in the right places...