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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...

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...

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.

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.

Acranasian úqumu [ˈoqomu] Modern South Eresian óqomi ['o:qomi]

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...

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.

Pretty relatedly to this, how do people pronounce 'louse' versus 'Laos'?

Yeah, that's just what's left of the subjunctive in English (and it is being quickly subsumed by "If I did that...").

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...

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 ...

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...

Qá aháča'a okwá e q'óc?
What the hell is going on in here?

annnd I'm going to bump this up again. Sorry for the lack of updates (still!), I've been busyish.

Bearlandic dúvezē ['du:vezɛ] Acranasian tū́fisa [ˈtuːɸɪsɐ] South Eresian tójisa [ˈtʰoːxisɑ]

Hathe viiyōne [vʝ̩ʝɔˤnə] Acranasian fiáuna [ɸiˈaʊ̯nɐ] Modern South Eresian jiyáuna [xiˈjɑʊ̯nɑ]

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...

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.

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.

Proto-Takayo: soquna [soʔuna] Acranasian su'unā́ [sʊʔʊˈnaː] South Eresian sihná [sɪʔˈnɑː]

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."

Çuvvakkoçim ǰañë [ˈʝan̪ɤ] Acranasian hiā́na [çiˈaːnɐ] South Eresian xána [ˈʃɒːnɑ]

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...

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.