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@masako, @dyolf, I appreciate your suggestions and links, but I'm not new to this. I read these things many times over the years. And you can see my registration date on this forum as well (2010). Linguistics is my hobby and I spent quite some time researching the subject, even though I don't have ...

So, here's my story. 1. I decide on a beautiful phonetic system for my conlang. 2. I create an amazingly cool grammar (in my opinion, obviously). 3. Profit? No... not quite. So, then I create a script that would generate some gibberish sentences in that language abiding by the phonetic rules and by ...

The general answer is "Yes, you can do whatever you want." If you've read the LCK you're aware of how other natural languages do things. If there is no morphological way to do something, it can be done lexically. Some specific comments: Might not be a bad idea to re-read that again. Pt's been some ...

So, I'm back to designing conlangs after some time doing something better with my life. And I have a few questions :) I did my research obviously, but I am still not sure and would like to hear your opinions guys. 1. What is the point for having grammatical future tense in a language? I have designe...

Not a Lexipedia reader, I guess. :( I guess not. Let me google that and see what I missed :) Kind of a provincial way to put it. Statistically, less familiar languages will always have exotic features-- no matter which languages are familiar. If there are 5000 languages, only 50 of which are well k...

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but search didn't show any such topics. Anyway, I was reading an article on NY times and it raised a very interesting topic about direction distinction in languages, and specifically about languages that don't have relative coordinate system and instead use g...

DePaw wrote:Link?

Well... you can google "risen 2" for one
Or here http://www.risen2.com/us/dark-waters/ and here http://store.steampowered.com/app/40390/

What do you think of Risen 2 conlang? It is very simplistic, but they tried to make it sound like some kind of african lang. Also they mix it with english so that anyone can understand at least something :) My feel - they could have done it more interestingly. But all in all it's too much to expect ...

Good day everyone. I remember there were a few awesome topics on this forum where people duscussed ways to design conworlds from perspective of realism. I was only able to find few discussions but not these big threads that I remember reading before. Can anyone point me where to find these topics pl...

Which clicks are you having trouble with? Bilabial ejective, velar ejective, uvular ejective, alveolar lateral ejective affricate. But I didn't really practice them, so maybe they are not that hard aftaral :) Oh, and I have trouble with labial-velar nasal. How do I pronounce epiglottals? I can't te...

Lots of 'sha shy shu' definitely sounds like it could be a dialect of Mandarin. Here are some youtube clips of different dialects: ... Oh. Thank you :) Now I can tell that it was most likely Dalian dialect. All other seem totally off. But still the way they spoke were slighly different. Maybe it is...

Just by probability it was most likely Mandarin, Cantonese, Min Nan or Hakka... It was not mandarin, that's for sure, as I can easily distinguish mandarin. But for the rest... Do you know any places where I can find samples of these dialects. I tried to search youtube for some videos, but found not...

Here's another one for you. This one is from Russian.

"Водку найду" = "What can I do" (pronounced in very simular way)
But russian one means "I will search for vodka" xD
So it is from the song which goes like "Водку найду, What can I do"

Hi everyone ^_^ I don't know why I didn't think of that before, but here it is. My way to train yourself to pronounce all sounds. Obviously by all I don't mean "all", but quite a lot :) To prove that it works - I can pronounce almost any sound from ipa table (expect few odd clicks and lip flaps) and...

Far too little information. That description fits something akin to 3/4 chineses! Yes... I understand that, but as I said there's no harm in asking, so maybe someone has an idea, or at least could point me into right direction. As I said I found this dialect very interesting and I would like to lea...

I have encountered a group of tourists recently and I had a chance to listen them speak. They spoke some chinese dialect as I can conclude. I don't know what it was exectly but I'm really interested in knowing. Ok. They used a lot of sha, shy and shu sounds, almost NONE explosive consonants, and the...

Hm, then it seems that I was wrong aftaral. Never the less the truth has prevailed :) I have to read more about the subject then. Thank you for all the replies. Also a little question: do you by any change know where I can find comprehensive article about agent, patient and the third thing, I forgot...

We (my friend and I) have an argument about whether one word in a sentence is a subject or object. If any of you are professional linguists (there are many, i know :)) could you shed some lite on that problem? >> >> >> .... (from our previous conversation) >> >> > I am a bit puzzled by your answer t...

If you learn to talk like Jane Austen then nobody will be impressed-- you won't sound intelligent or sophisticated, you'll just come across as pretentious and weird. This is because nobody talks that way anymore, no, not even smart people. This is why I wrote explanation in the first post, I'm not ...

Nannalu wrote:Early 1900s English isn't that much different from todays, it's just a bit more formal.

I couldn't disagree with you more...
It has a totally different feel to it, and it uses mostly completely different phrases and figures of speech that we use today.

You are right... but by "old english" I didn't mean the actual term "old english", I only meant english that was spoken about 100-150 year ago in it literature form.

upd: ah, I didn't notice your "seriously ..." part. Thanks you for the info I will contact him right now.

Now long ago I was reading Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and I was just literally blown away by the language used. It is very old english, I guess from 1860-1910, and it is just beautiful! How can I learn to use that kind of english? I guess I just need to read more old books... but... I do ...

That is funny
But can you include subtitles in video description... or at least give a link to the thread to every video, so I can open it and see translation.

//braggin mode:on Hm... I can pronounce pretty much perfectly everything from english, japanese, russian (native), ukrainian, spanish. (tho most phonology of these langs are similar) Also to some degree sounds from vietnamese and korean including nasalised vovels and aspirated/unaspirated consonants...

I've seen starts and sketches and so forth but no full language. It's likely too daunting. I think it's fascinating idea to make such lang :) I've thought about the concept of developing a language that'd be played on the guitar, but it's beyond my musical ability to actually make it, let alone "sp...