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Oh. I see. Because they are determined lexically, you don't necessarily have a problem with figuring out morphosyntactical alignment. If the object is an animal, then you know that it is animate, etc, and so you now that one ending has to be the Direct case, as opposed to the Inverse case, and so fo...

Maybe it's because it's closer to the evening and I've had a long day, but I'm having a hell of a time wrapping my head around your morphosyntactical alignment system. Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that the usage of the noun class suffixes is dependent solely on lexical distinctions be...

You really fleshed this out, Theta. It's good to see a well developed phonlogical system, as opposed to just a phonemic inventory and some bare bones allophony. To be perfectly honest, phonology is pretty much my weak spot, especially when it comes to judging them. Still, I do think your pitch accen...

/f s x/ ?

That's pretty bold. I generally suck at examining phonological information, but I'll keep a tab on this thread. Have you got any morphosyntactical information up yet?

I didn't know that the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia operated in this way, Ketumak. That's interesting to now. Symphia seems, to me at least, kind of similar to venician cultures during the time of the renaissance. Well, the stereotypical italian culture, I suppose. I'm very likely completely wrong i...

It looks pretty good, galactose. I'm no expert on conscripts, so I'm afraid I don't have much in the way of advice to give. Although, if this script is designed to be carved into stone, I'm not sure if your conpeople would use the variable width strokes. In particular, curves might quickly end up as...

This is some really good stuff. I like how this Dravian guy is just no-nonsense awesomeness. Would it be all right if I asked a question of my own? Basically, could you ask Ted about the architecture in Dravia, and the different styles that exist within the capital and around the countryside? Thanks...

Birds in english don't say Tweet. They say Chirp.

Or at least, they did when I was younger. Don't know about today, with Twitter, and shit. Also, what do foxes sound like? I don't think I've ever heard one vocalize.

Interesting stuff, Chagen. Although, anyone trying to pronounce this is going to butcher the sounds, especially with that "c" being used for "ts". Having said that, I had a good time practicing the pronunciations, and eventually got to a point where it sounded pretty cool, at least too my ears. The ...

Hello, Grin. Lovely language you've got here. That's a crazy lot of plosives you've got, and only four vowels!!!! Awesome. I glanced over the morphology, but it's a bit difficult without the tables. You can simulate tables with the [ code ] and [ \code ] tags, which preserve space in a nifty kind of...

Well, "Shell" is jargon for a unix-command line. There's also "Root", which can mean a linux system administrator, or the start of the Linux filesystem. Also, I don't know how widespread this is, but I often use "Hash" when referring to a "#!", which is a special number used in initiating shell scri...

There's always the route of having a moderately plentiful and good lifestyle available to the denizens of the planet. The living conditions might not need to be plush and super comfortable, but they could be tolerable enough to prevent innovation out of desperation. Also, a culture that promotes res...

Do you think there might be a correlation between the deviations presented here and the L1's spoken by the conlanging community. My theory is that the native languages of the community would have a weighted affect on the types of conlangs that we create. For a purely hypothetical example, if the maj...

Jawohl, Herr Schmidt! <-- Fur paese, ender die deutschuntteunlahn sie traetste.
Yes, Mr. Smith! <-- Technically, this is both German and Teunen. Go figure.

Oh, that sounds cool, Ketumak. If I may ask, how similar are you making your alternate earth to ours, with respect to history and language, I mean? Do you, for example, have an alternate Spanish that sounds just like Spanish, but isn't Spanish? (I've always loved that Idea. )

This is an overview of a constate, which exists in an alternate earth with history similar to our own. It is a Work In Progress. Teuneulieg Teuneulieg is an island to the north-east of the United Kingdom, roughly two-thirds the size of Ireland, in the Northern Sea. Despite the high latitude, head fr...

Ich fur dein wehltspaegen ender die otertreute gegratchen, Mijneera KathAveara!
KathAveara! Thank you for your nice comment on the [simple noun system] thread!

Tatt, Ich fur dein valtlahn muhtwehl hatte, Click.
Also, I really like your conlang, Click.

I've only got about 100 to a 150 words in the Teune Lexicon. I can derive a large set with compound constructions, but in general, I'd say the language isn't too unbalanced. There's a lot of words missing, of course, but the proportion of simple to complex seems to be about even.

This is looking pretty interesting, Salmoneous. Do you plan on writing any stories about this cosmos?

It should have no verbs and no nouns. In the name of political correctness, everything should be described in terms of adjectival qualities. Also, you should have to say 'dot' after each sentence. You know, to make it more naturalistic.

Ein gutspaegen, haefe Ich. Fur neue, nist mein piehrnbrechen. Pehrte nist guttrehffste die piehrne, auf. I have good news. My leg isn't broken, but it looks like I might have torn my Anterior Cruciate Ligament. WeepingElf, Ich sehrturen dein lahne, aufe. Sist sehr de apneulieg, Mijneer. WeepingElf,...

Herr Dunkel, you've actually touched upon something that plays out within the history of the Cauldron. It deserves its own post, so I will discuss it at length at another time. Still, you have touched upon something very big within the world.

The Next Post is Coming.

The Machine People & The Deserts to the East A vast expanse of sun-baked sand stretches eastward from the Kievan Ranges. This sand turns to salt flats in the north, while the lower lattitudes have patches of silicate and iron ore in places. At the southernmost, the Behltrus River flows off from the...

Hi fearful Jesuit. I just want to say that there's a lot of meat to these two posts, and I like it. There's a lot that I can kind of understand, and a lot that I think I'll do some research into. The pitch-accent system looks like something I'd enjoy trying to learn how to pronounce. I'm interested ...

The Kievan Ranges The Kievan mountain ranges, or Die Dehnten , as they are known to the Russmen, is a long chain of mountainous terrain that cuts off the western part of the greater continent from the eastern. This is not to say that the chain is impassable, however. The Kapital of the Russieg peni...