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by Risla
Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:57 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your premodern conlang fluency
Replies: 166
Views: 37900

Re: Help your premodern conlang fluency

Ey vah ce mas. Dude, what a name. É ma ténakiš ésepeniniš yá. Ší neqéneme ayaháyan ná e Amačálkwine. [ˈɛː mɒ ˈtʰɛːnakɪʃ ˈɛːsɛpɛ,niːnɪʃ ˈjɑː | ˈʃiː nɛˈqχɛːnɛmɛ ajaˈχɑːjãn ˈnɑː ɛ amaˈtʃʰɒɬkʷinɛ] So are we Islanders named. You foreigners could perhaps refer to me as Amachálcuin. Ihorka leh gin ge, sna...
by Risla
Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:37 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your premodern conlang fluency
Replies: 166
Views: 37900

Re: Help your premodern conlang fluency

Amačálkwine cóšta-Nósiš-ƛáye sitlálwiwelósire nóhane. I am from-Amachálco six-Void-like-rising covered-in-starlight wanderer. No c'ákmanános ma p'élme. Qac'óiče'a c'ákmanános. Wé mó palésa'a nanán ka ší 'i nóha'a. You speak of slavery. Slavery is barbarity. All people should be free to go on wander...
by Risla
Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:28 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Replies: 933
Views: 237899

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

I am now back home from the LSA annual meeting. It was fantastic, and a lot of really good stuff happened. And now I'm sad it's over.
by Risla
Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:57 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906333

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

Image

Face masque on + henna and indigo in my hair (although you can't really tell how green my hair is from this picture). I look like a lizard person.
by Risla
Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 573695

Re: Sound Change Game

:> Acranasian úqumu [ˈoqomu] :> Modern South Eresian óqomi ['o:qomi]
by Risla
Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:35 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Videogame Thread
Replies: 68
Views: 17161

Re: The Videogame Thread

I've yet to play Dragon Age, though I'll probably get around to it eventually. I absolutely love Mass Effect, and was somewhat less impressed by the later games. Mechanically, the first one had some faults, but I think the story was incredibly good in ways the other games never managed. I really wi...
by Risla
Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:46 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Videogame Thread
Replies: 68
Views: 17161

Re: The Videogame Thread

I've been working through Mass Effect, in lieu of playing through Dragon Age 2 the squillionth time (I absolutely love that game to teeny tiny bits, for most of the reasons people hate it). I also seem to be back to playing Plants vs Zombies a lot.
by Risla
Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:19 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemic /əɪ/ in Inland North outside of /t d/-flapping?
Replies: 13
Views: 3117

Re: Phonemic /əɪ/ in Inland North outside of /t d/-flapping?

Pretty relatedly to this, how do people pronounce 'louse' versus 'Laos'?
by Risla
Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:17 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What is "to be" + infinitive in English called?
Replies: 4
Views: 1611

Re: What is "to be" + infinitive in English called?

Yeah, that's just what's left of the subjunctive in English (and it is being quickly subsumed by "If I did that...").
by Risla
Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:16 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemic /əɪ/ in Inland North outside of /t d/-flapping?
Replies: 13
Views: 3117

Re: Phonemic /əɪ/ in Inland North outside of /t d/-flapping?

I'd be inclined to hypothesize that this is a phenomenon affecting morpheme boundaries. If I heard a hypothetical word like [klaɪɹ̩], I'd be inclined to analyze it as the dimorphemic /klai+ɹ̩/, but if I heard a word [kləɪɹ̩], I'd probably assume it was some monomorphemic word /klair/. (I'll also not...
by Risla
Fri Dec 13, 2013 3:36 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 366039

Re: The dream thread

I keep having dreams where I have to rescue my professors from deadly situations. I had one last year where my semantics+pragmatics professor was being held in a massive underground cavern and my old D&D group had to go rescue him because there was an army of faceless nurses slowly injecting poison ...
by Risla
Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:34 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Replies: 933
Views: 237899

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

I'm GRADUATING. People keep saying that I must be so excited, but I'm really not. I'll be glad to finally have a degree, but I'll be cut off from basically everyone I know, I won't have any source of academic feedback anymore (and positive academic feedback is one of the few things that is capable o...
by Risla
Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:04 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926760

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Qá aháča'a okwá e q'óc? :P
What the hell is going on in here? :P
by Risla
Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:02 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: An overview of Acranasian
Replies: 14
Views: 4390

Re: An overview of Acranasian

annnd I'm going to bump this up again. Sorry for the lack of updates (still!), I've been busyish.
by Risla
Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:52 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 573695

Re: Sound Change Game

Bearlandic dúvezē ['du:vezɛ] :> Acranasian tū́fisa [ˈtuːɸɪsɐ] :> South Eresian tójisa [ˈtʰoːxisɑ]
by Risla
Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:58 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 573695

Re: Sound Change Game

Hathe viiyōne [vʝ̩ʝɔˤnə] :> Acranasian fiáuna [ɸiˈaʊ̯nɐ] :> Modern South Eresian jiyáuna [xiˈjɑʊ̯nɑ]
by Risla
Fri Aug 02, 2013 6:31 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 913197

Re: Lexicon Building

1. MSE ismólic- vi "bend down", from Acranasian múlu "curved, bent in the middle," plus ussu (reflexive particle) + c'a "go" (later an inceptive marker). "Be bent down (by oneself)," as a stative, is ismólw- 2. MSE mačíwaqs- vs "anonymous," from Acranasian mākífuā "mask" plus aq'ussa "hide" (later g...
by Risla
Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:46 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: An overview of Acranasian
Replies: 14
Views: 4390

Re: An overview of Acranasian

Sevly wrote:
Risla wrote:so I'm afraid they'll seem noobish
Surely not. How many of us write about syntactic change at all? Looking forward to it.
...Good point. Thanks.
by Risla
Thu Aug 01, 2013 2:03 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: An overview of Acranasian
Replies: 14
Views: 4390

Re: An overview of Acranasian

Hopefully. At some point. I keep redoing the syntactic changes because I actually have very little knowledge about how syntactic change actually works in language aside from "it is a thing that happens," so I'm afraid they'll seem noobish. :oops:
by Risla
Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 573695

Re: Sound Change Game

Proto-Takayo: soquna [soʔuna] :> Acranasian su'unā́ [sʊʔʊˈnaː] :> South Eresian sihná [sɪʔˈnɑː]
by Risla
Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:02 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 366039

Re: The dream thread

Mosquitoes had crossed with woodpeckers, and they were swarming people and furiously pecking them to get their blood.

My D&D group suggested that these such abominations be called "bloodpeckers."
by Risla
Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:41 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 573695

Re: Sound Change Game

Çuvvakkoçim ǰañë [ˈʝan̪ɤ] :> Acranasian hiā́na [çiˈaːnɐ] :> South Eresian xána [ˈʃɒːnɑ]
by Risla
Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:38 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: No Person
Replies: 44
Views: 10255

Re: No Person

Coincidence: I was just over in the C&C questions thread and had typed out "Is it too implausible for a language to not make a distinction between second and third persons on the basis of speech-act participanthood, but rather make use of a similar distinction based on proximity or some other sort o...
by Risla
Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:35 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: An overview of Acranasian
Replies: 14
Views: 4390

Re: An overview of Acranasian

I am going to bump this up for now while I repeatedly rewrite some new posts. I probably should have put this in C&C proper.