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by Ulan
Sun Nov 10, 2013 3:22 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784064

Re: Lexicon Building

Coffee plantation

fûycńul kovimeş
ɸm̥yðnːuʎ cʊβımɛʃ

fûyç - harvest, crop

guvi - coffee, mutated by preceding final l




Next word: immunodeficiency
by Ulan
Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:38 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726330

Re: Help your conlang fluency

polatsee swapau pepa zegaa yazyo "tazkulaa kopa jeidsizenah, - dsizemek katiin' sharpie kopa bugon [ɸə.lä.ʤəː zβə.βuː ɸɜ.βä ʑɜ.jəː jä.ɰə θɑ.xu.ɬəː xə.βə ʝɛː.ʤi.ʐɛ.naχ ʤi.mə xä.ðỹ ʒaː.ɸi xə.βə βu.ɣə̃] PLW [pɔ.la.tsɛː sʷa.pɑu pɛ.pa ɕɛ.gaː jaɕ.jɔ taɕ.ku.laː kɔ.pa ɟɛi.dzi.ɺɛ.nɑ dzi.ɺɛ.mek kat.ɰyn ʃaɺ.pi...
by Ulan
Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784064

Re: Lexicon Building

sombelji aylanmaahe kopa kuhpany
[ʒə.βɔː.ʝi aː.lə̃.mäː.χɛ xu.ɸə̃] PLW
catfish who turns away from shit

zaligapaali
[ʑä.li.ɣə.ɸəː.li] PLW
'Hypocrisy, purposeful ignorance'

Next word:
irrumatio
by Ulan
Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:13 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726330

Re: Help your conlang fluency

hoi hoi
ϩοι ϩοι
[xəi xəi] STND
done done

"Done deal"

Paumadzuunai ji jegu yabayanke
παυμαϻύναι γι γεχυ ηαφαηανϰε
[pɑu.mɑ.ʥuː.nɑj cʰi jɔ.gɯ jä.bə.jã.gɜ] NVP
1SG.think carry CONJ clear.ATTN.PL

I thought it might bring some clarity (as in easier to distinguish, but breaks are good 'nuff)
by Ulan
Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:47 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726330

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Hey! I've just noticed the 'Phonetic Symbols' in the character viewer now. This is way easier! Hesof fisebusosh? Ûx hesof fisebusosh? Ûx dhovajh? Character viewer? What character viewer? Where? dau kopa mac -- ahil negfuhe fok paudzimit ei θαυ ϰοπα μαϰ -- αϩιλ νεχβυϩε βοϰ παυϻιτ ει [tʰɑu kə.bä mak ...
by Ulan
Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:38 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784064

Re: Lexicon Building

Chuj (byushan)
Yurtsaa [jɯ.ʣaː] "Thunderstorm, scuffle"

Chuj (central)
Bezka [pʰɔʑ.kä] "Storm cloud, dust devil"



Next word: bradycardia / tachycardia
by Ulan
Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726330

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Oyo! fok pauzegaltee len 'Phonetic Symbols' kopa yalfa yetudaali nahpau! len-tzal hoi hasan οηο ! βοϰ παυϸεχαλτέ λεν 'Phonetic Symbols' ϰοπα ηαλβα ηετυθά ναϩπαυ λεν-ϻαλ ϩοι ϩαϛαν [βɔx ɸɑu.ʑə.ɣəː.θəː ɬɜ̃ ɸɔ.nə.ti sim.βɔz xɔ.ɸə jäːβ̯ə jɔ.θɯ.ðəː.ly nä̰.ɸɑu lɜ̃ ʥäː χɔi χä.ʒə̃] INT 1SG.see be.ESS:AS pho...
by Ulan
Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:36 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784064

Re: Lexicon Building

Next word: archipellago Arasamean: řajař [ɾæƷæɾ] though some pronounce it as [RæƷ.ƷæR] Next word: to see / to observe Already have that, so I guess this will be a Plawaswapala chuj word /zegaltee/ [ʒɜ.ɣə.θəː] "he/she/it/they see" The typical chuj word for 'he/she/it/they see' /yetu/ would be used f...
by Ulan
Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:30 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: the Old Granny thread
Replies: 624
Views: 188259

Re: the Old Granny thread

Dewrad wrote: What? Toad in the hole is sausage in a batter pudding. The above is egg in a basket.
O.o Egg in the basket is when you do poached eggs on toast without cooking them together here
What do you call frog eye?
Err tapioca
by Ulan
Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:03 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640057

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

Eandil wrote:?

Russia
Prussia
Russian
Prussian

/(p)ɹəʃə(n)/

My accents as interesting as a tin of saltines
by Ulan
Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:49 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Units of Measurement
Replies: 25
Views: 10149

Re: Units of Measurement

The Turupans being what they are, they use body parts as referents - to indicate a length of around 2'', a Turupan might simply say "my arm" ( mem mal ), for example. They will also do the same thing with weights. How do they measure things like 1 mm, or 2 km, or 50 L? "my pinky cubed, ? my arm-spa...
by Ulan
Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Units of Measurement
Replies: 25
Views: 10149

Re: Units of Measurement

Hmm the only standardized chuj measurements would be very archaic, and be something akin to hexidecimal divisions of how far a messenger could travel in a day, and a smaller scale measurement based on the length of a goat or something similar along with astronomical measurents. But in modern times ...
by Ulan
Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Units of Measurement
Replies: 25
Views: 10149

Re: Units of Measurement

Hmm the only standardized chuj measurements would be very archaic, and be something akin to hexidecimal divisions of how far a messenger could travel in a day, and a smaller scale measurement based on the length of a goat or something similar along with astronomical measurents. But in modern times t...
by Ulan
Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:16 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: the Old Granny thread
Replies: 624
Views: 188259

Re: the Old Granny thread

Okay so here's how you do breakfast the Shrdlu way You need: One egg A piece of bread. Make an hole in the bread and place it the pan, imidently crack an egg over the hole. Fry everything and don't forget to flip the bread so the egg gets done on both sides. Salt and pepper to your heart's content ...
by Ulan
Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:02 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
Replies: 391
Views: 66119

Re: Nice sounding natlangs

Ignoring some derailment .... +: Turkic languages *swoon* Slavic languages (Serbian and such is meh, but I find Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian to be pretty sweet) Danish -: Somali Italian (or Iberian Spanish could replace this, it is a close call) Greek Though those negative languages are closer to ...
by Ulan
Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:29 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499780

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

I don't see anything egregiously bad with that, ZMoring You don't need a digraph for [ʃ] since you have a bunch of unused glyphs, you could do something along the lines of [s ʃ] <c s> Why do you only have a voiced bilabial stop, and only a devoiced dental and velar stop? Also your bits with 'dependi...
by Ulan
Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:33 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640057

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

What do you mean? I read the majority of them as just exclamations

edit: derped, Bob below basically nails it
by Ulan
Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:17 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 323331

Re: Creativity of the day

Quick someone blow up those towers so I can drive faster
by Ulan
Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:01 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Mayan Glyph Question
Replies: 44
Views: 7890

Re: Mayan Glyph Question

Your sweat glands are subaxilliar, a puncture wound on your side is inferior to the axilla

And what point are you trying to drag on?
by Ulan
Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:11 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Mayan Glyph Question
Replies: 44
Views: 7890

Re: Mayan Glyph Question

Pthug wrote:subaxillary and subscapular you mean, surely?
Those are incorrect, if you wanted to be pedantic it would be 'inferior to the axilla/inferior to the scapula', its just beating a dead horse by now
by Ulan
Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:27 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784064

Re: Lexicon Building

tzau-sumilii

bezhihelbolee
bastard.CAUS.inf
[pʰɛɕ.çi.xɛː.pʰə.ɬɛː]

To make debauchery, raise hell, or muck about


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