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Mbwa

At the Scriptorium, brank wrote:Bingo! Use the Alphabet Synthesis Machine!

It will generate randomized/evolved glyphs based on your input.

It's not great, but after playing around with it a bit I found it can certainly be helpful.

Mbwa

I'm guessing all those vowels is probably the main reason he wrote it. Not really that weird to us, but look at it cross-linguistically.

Also, I will try to contribute a weird language once I find one.

Mbwa

How about we just do the whole thing:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/

Mbwa

Nortaneous wrote:Bottom Biting Bug: the music video

Surprisingly enjoyable.

Anyway, here's a cool virtual drumset. It requires the download of a small plugin:

http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/4896

Mbwa

I've never commented in this thread before, but I should've. I really like the language. It has some familiarity, but does retain a more archaic, Germanic feel. I didn't read too in depth on any of the articles, but it looks well done. Nice job, man.

Mbwa

I'm not gonna join in, just to let everybody know. I don't feel up to the challenge yet, at least with the bar set as high as it was.

Mbwa

Maybe me. I have a pretty full plate as far as conlangery goes, but I may have a spot freeing up. Either way I'll be following this.

Mbwa

A comparison of some words from a few Austronesian languages:

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8908/fir ... rames.html

Mbwa

I think they're saying it wouldn't be.

Mbwa

TaylorS wrote:Eridanian update:

Now Eridanian is Ergative-Dative

bo- = Ergative case, derived from English "by"

Bill ate = boBiu xeyee'
Bill ate breakfast = Biu xeyeedi' bobrafosh

I'm pretty sure 'Bill ate' is an intransitive sentence, and thus would use the absolutive case.

Mbwa

Wycoval wrote:
Cut the chatter. This thread is for quotes.

Sorry sorry sorry, I'll go start a separate thread for linguistic synesthisia.

Mbwa

Not that the picture with the dragon and the bear was any better, though. Finnish is the bear, dammit, and it's about to kick the dragon's ass. :evil: What does that mean? I didn't offend you, did I? I was just thinking of their grammatical structure. I see Finnish as having more bells and whistles...

Mbwa

And this is our interpretation of Finnish in general. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL-S2JdCDHU I'm no stalker, but that seems quite different from Xonen. And our other Finns, too, come to think of it. And this is all of Scandinavia as it truely exists. I'm also not a homophobe, but that is just b...

Mbwa

rickardspaghetti wrote:More specifically, Finnish wants to piss Swedish off.

Hey no offense, I love Swedish, but this is my interpretation of them fighting:

http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo31 ... 1250628021

Mbwa

We were discussing how Finnish adjectives act like nouns. Then Yiuel said that French adjectives and nouns might be even more similar than those of Finnish. Then I said... And French doesn't even have to inflect for case. Maybe Finnish doesn't have to either; maybe it just does it to piss the rest o...

Mbwa

Oh, I thought Dewrad said capitalism, and I was like WTF?

Mbwa

^Was that actually some kind of philosophical lecture?

Mbwa

Jesus Christ, you have a valid excuse for pulling a sickie and you're not going to? What is the world coming to? Honestly, kids today. Too much work ethic, too much respect for their elders. It makes me sick . I was doing some stretching exercises under the covers Is that what they're calling it th...

Mbwa

That looks awesome! You've seen it, Yiuel?

It kinda reminded me of this, with all the random ridiculousness and all:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=19553

Mbwa

A brief but interesting bit of Maranao grammar:

http://iloko.tripod.com/Maranao.htm

Mbwa

Wow. I must say that this project is very impressive. I've sorta kinda looked at it before and it is very cool, but I didn't know new members could join. This may be something I'd like to be a part of at some point, if nobody minds. I'll start reading up on the conhistory. One thing I'd really like ...

Mbwa

Yes! A pidgin.

Mbwa

http://www.geocities.com/tsca.geo/dansk/

A good Danish grammar.

Mbwa

http://www.freewebs.com/themulders/luoguide.htm A guide to the Dholuo language. It seems to be not loading right now, but it may work later. It's kinda written more for the layman, but it still has some good info, and looks pretty nice. EDIT: Just loaded, and uses more linguistic terminology than I ...

Mbwa

I should have wrote:
hwhatting wrote:I always had the nagging feeling that the Verdurian languages were somehow, you know, constructed languages...
Yeah, by those darn Kebreni monks!

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