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http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmaswa/fluency/101.png Swa teuk flet Bol Ler Kmarng Wdeum keun mger pgihjoot swa geuot cheung loguang keuong kao wkerchmui dang bio'eu huoo. Biat heataon ktaat aadang ach peuol bo. swa tʰœk̚ flɛt̚ bɔɭ ɭɚ̰ː kmɑ̰˞ːŋ wə̯̆dœm kʰœn mə̯̆ɡɚ̰ː pɡɪ̤çʤuːt̚ swa gœɔ̯...

Kesasine, sotankaht tayka.
this-place previous.night rain
It rained here last night.

(Masah kerevet. Teti teverei vekuna isah paokahla.)
PST true-ADVR point first during time large-GEN
(It really did. First time in a while.)

ɛnæ oʊ tældoʊ? i ɛnæ sɛlɪn imæ; i tərvæ, ɛnæ solp sɛlɪn. Are you kidding? I love the rain. I wish it rained more here. Aht hiseta iat ysoi tayka vankuvahla natseire? Q believe 2SM-DIR REL rain -DIR Vancouver -GEN sufficient -NEG You think that Vancouver doesn't get enough rain? Naikia iatot, ahnah ...

English (Canadian). I've heard plenty of accents, but I doubt I could imitate any of them convincingly enough to pass for my native accent. Japanese (Kantou-ben). Don't really speak anything else well enough to have an accent except my attempts to fake French, which is probably Quebecois, and Spanis...

Jerian_Nostigia wrote:next: handshake (or if your society has a different way of greeting people, then what is it, and what's the term for it?)

Nayraki

keika, to bow; a bow
vetyrinka, crossarms: arms crossed in front of the chest, fists in front of opposite arm's shoulders

next: corrosive

Whie gren ha ney ein Rhud fure Auyeglesse ? [ʍiː gɾɛn hɑː neː eːn ʁʉd fʉɑ̯ 'ou̯.jɨ'glɛs.ɑ] Why don't they have a Word for "Goggles"? Kahrere syvah omahrytot ymaht. Palityrana nene yn ahrere vope. have .AN-NEG 3P-DIR high-knowledge many eyeglass -DIR simple QUOT know -NEG most They don't have much t...

valiums wrote:Jò io jiàné un mao á la szuótienne. / La szuótienne, jò io jiàné un mao.

Yrana vanyla! Goggles, veiere kesa toiala!
eye-DIR 1SM-GEN goggles do.IN-NEG PROX nothing
My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

no they don't have a word for goggles

Ykkh. Ahrysatet masah van kavot iatot.
tell-POT PST 1SM-DIR MED-ACC 2SM-ACC
Yuck. I could have told you that.

Nayraki kopeteki, false role

next word: probability

first time doing stuff with new MSA, let's see how this goes

Kaukana elievet van valtevot sapanyla. Rukahtere neletevet iatot.
remember good-ADVR 1SM-NOM summer-ACC Japan-GEN envy-NEG complete-ADVR 2SM-ACC
I remember Japanese summers well. I don't envy you at all.

I insisted that they [should] be locked up.
I insisted that they [previously/presently] were locked up.

Canadian.

Soap wrote:next: topiary; the art of hedge trimming

Nayraki suletaleiai, tree-cut-art

next: fertility

Soap wrote:brunette; having brown hair

Nayraki lahviatese, "earth-haired"

next: mercy

clawgrip wrote:next: the bottom of a body of water

Nayraki aevateilu, ikuateilu - river-floor, sea-floor

next: feisty

Milloniare wrote:Next: An epiphany

Nayraki milytela, a conflation of milyta utele (thought sudden)

next: conclave

Nayraki: 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] 2. Phonemic voicing [half mark if voicing is only part of the distinction] 3. Two and only two parallel series of phonemes at each ...