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GrinningManiac wrote:and they call themselves "That which is".

Damon tie imerau sue tat nie ene, daroue?
that-people from self-important under small with have or
[ˈdamn̩tɪ 'ɪmrəʊsə ˈtatsnjɛnə 'darəʊ]
A bit pretentious of them, no?

Monk wrote:Kuzgesmiš tukumon enadozu?
[ku'zgɛs.miʃ tu'kumon enɑ'dɔzu]
"I thought we've had winter?"

Deue ue? Damue tee sie dert daroue vee.
[ˈzɛwə 'damətsɛzɪzr̩t 'darəʊβɛ]
"What? I would like that, but no."

I'd love to translate out of somebody else's language and into English. It should be fun, as long as their grammar and vocab lists are sufficiently detailed. Bring it on!

Hey, has anybody had any success using lex manager on a local server? I tried setting it up with WAMP and XAMPP, and I ran through the config, but LexManager cannot see the tables in the lexicons database. That is, I can create a new lexicon through the LexManager interface and see the tables that i...

The time for voting has come to its close. The time for celebration begins now! Conlanging Best Conlang Mecislau's Alashian won this category easily with 9 of 11 votes Best Phonology MONOBA's Siwa took this category with 3 of 6 votes . Best Morphosyntax It was Cuhbi by Yng here with 3 of 5 votes . B...

A nice and well-developed conlang that is also lovingly presented with pretty graphics. The graphics are of course not the main reason why this language is good; but they earn some bonus points. Good work, Sevly; rock on! Thank you! I hope to do just that. Morphology MORPHOLOGICAL PROCCESSES (CONTI...

We will never have (own) another cat. Demant dee sue vurie nie veene sie mee. /ˈdɛmantsdɛsə ˈβʌrɪnjɪ ˈβɛnəzmɛ/ de=mant dee sue vurie nie ve-ene sie mee DET=now down from cat with NEG-have COP.1 in "We will never have another cat" < "From now on we don't have a cat." Next: Additional information is ...

Yeah that song really is annoying. It's probably a good song, but because I hear it five times a day it's hard not to hate it. Yeah, I don't even like it that much but it's an earworm. Fo puvewopom, plinap tobvwobbo, nadžabwobabop mes lapabo YAY! I did it with exactly the same number of syllables! ...

Of all the worst things that could happen, this is the worst possible thing ! Dert sue met tee vedet mue datie dert mee tee mue vedet ie doane . /'zr̩tsəmɛtstjɛ 'βɛdɛtsmə ˈdatɪzr̩tsmɛ ↗ ˈtsɛməβɛdɛtsjɪ ↗ ˈdʊnə/ dert sue met tee vedet mue possible under put to bad on "the worst that could happen" da-...

Next: You have five minutes to clean your room. Dotee satie tee rake mee met datee demee sue des ie nie. /ˈdʊtsɛsatsɪtsɛ ˈrakəmɛmɛts ˈdatsɛdɛmɛsə ˈdɛsjɪnjɪ/ do-tee satie tee rake mee met PROX-to room to clean in put da-tee demee sue des ie nie DIST-to minute under five COP with "You have five minut...

I'd expect /ɪ.ˈzn̩t/ if it was in the context of: "Did you say 'it is red'?" "No, I said 'it is n't red'", but not normally elsewhere. The thing is, though, I'd still give <isn't> initial stress– stronger initial stress, but still initial stress. Or maybe "it's not"; that's not terribly likely (or ...

Next up is nominal morphology, which I’m aiming to post about on Friday might show up by Tuesday? Maybe? Eh, it's Wednesday. Just a few days behind schedule. But this post focuses mostly on verbal, rather than nominal, morphology, cause that's how it came out. Next Wednesday we'll get more into com...

I do want to, however, use this thread for a quick rant. I have met many people who speak of their grandparents as native speakers of a language and I certainly believe them, but then these people (my generation) claim, well when I was young I could understand everything my grandparents said, I was...

Self analysis of speech is ever so hard, but I'd say that the pairs in bold rhyme when I say them, and that the syllables in italics have the same vowel. sad - facade - sod spaz - pla za - cause candy - Gandhi - blondie gra vel - la va - poverty dally - Dali - dolly stab - Saab - sob Overall judgeme...

Well, all I'll say is that I was expecting this to be a cliche storm and that it's instead troperrific. It's an amazing conworld and I've really enjoyed reading about it. You've spent some time working on the details of how everything interacts. I especially like the nature of Oak, since it explains...

native lang languages we were brought up with mother tongues languages of our heritage Let's suppose that I am slow witted. What is the difference between the above four? I don't quite get it from Asahi's post. Okay. Here's a perspective from a person who has some very good reasons to make subtle d...

The thing is, though, that just as mixing together equal amounts of magenta yellow and cyan doesn't produce a perfect black or grey, neither does mixing together 0% of each produce a perfect white - thus the need for white ink. You can fake it with 0% black, but a keen eye can still tell the differ...

What's preventing a lang from having an SAE inventory, but non-SAE grammar? Nothing is preventing it. I thought I just said that this was the case for one of my own conlangs, and their are plenty of other examples in this thread of interesting, a priori conlangs which score high on Sal's SAE phonol...

I will never understand conlanger's rabid hatred of SAE inventories. Me? Personally, all of my conlangs are SAE. Eurolangs are my favorite langs in the world (Latin is still the best language I have ever seen. So eloquent, so concise, just a pure joy to see/hear/write). In the conlanging community,...

First, to answer Atom's question: Do you have notes on Old Deevie? Looking forward to the sound changes, those are always interesting, and it's obvious you put much more thought into phonology then most people do. Notes? No. Plans? Yes. Middle and Modern Deevie follow one historical developmental pa...

Imagine my pleasant surprise to see a total of ten responses to a mere phonology, and then imagine me shaking my head, thinking "I should have guessed", when it turned out that most of it was a bicker about graphics. Ah, gotta love the ZBB. Well, I personally love the images and wouldn't have spent ...

Yeah, congratulations, everyone. Congrats especially to Eandil, whose great approach to magic has single-handedly inspired me to work out a few details of a alternate physics / magic system of my own. And Kereb's quote? Had me literally laughing out loud.

An Introduction to Deevie Table of Contents Modern Deevie (ModD) Deevie Notes Middle Deevie (MdlD) Phonology and Orthography (this post) Vowels Consonants Phonotactics Allophony Transcription Examples Morphophonology Consonant Sandhi Vowel Sandhi Resolution of Vowel and Consonant Clusters Morpholog...

It might be worth you learning Hiragana and Katakana, just because if something is transcribed with that it will help you. The tables for these aren't very big. Having an idea of how they fit together with Kanji is useful for background too. Sigh. I suppose so. So many projects. Too little time. I ...

Hey, anyone know a good resource for learning about Japanese grammar without bothering too much with its convoluted writing system? I'm looking for a book that serves as an introduction to the Japanese language with the assumption that you have a fair bit of linguistic knowledge--that is to say, a b...