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cromulant wrote:Then it evened out, I guess, and this guy who looked like Janko threw a rock at the car.

Have you ever refused him numbers?

I was writing a book where the characters were on a boat. I was going to write about a sea serpent that came up out of the water, and both the boat and the serpent would sink. The characters would then be swimming in the water, and the serpent would rise up and introduce himself, and he would have a...

I had a dream involving a girl who thought she was just a character in a novel trilogy. She was flying through the air. That's all I can remember.

Then I dreamed that I was going to get married, but I got cold feet and ran away.

Part of a long dream that I can't remember all of... We had a lot of guests at our house, and we also had some bombs, which looked like simple sparks. There were three types of bombs, and my mom accidentally left one of the most powerful type sitting out in the yard. I realized it would cause the wh...

I can't do this. I'm dropping out.

Since this topic has been bumped...
"We know that th dh sh kh had very similar values to Caďinor, thus [θ ð ʃ x]."
But Caďinor doesn't have /ʃ/.

There was a commercial for a device for writing your will. The commercial bragged about it being very portable, but it looked rather bulky. It showed a woman carrying and using it on the subway and in the grocery store.

My native language is English. My ancestors spoke Proto-Indo-European.

Why can't I have your dreams?

And how do you remember such long dreams?

Taernsietr wrote:Only 8 doesn't seem to make much sense for me (did that happen in any other language?),

Quite a few languages have h > ç / _j, and ç > ʃ seems quite likely.

Somebody had a conworld which was set on a second moon of Earth, and the continents were the same as Earth's, but narrower. This meant that some continents which nearly touch on Earth were not touching on the conworld. For example, as we all know, the north part of Australia touches the south coast ...

V > Ṽ / _N#, _ N [stop]
N > 0 / _[stop -voiced]#
[stop +voiced] > 0 / N_#
N > 0 / VL_#
ŋ > g / _#, _C
ø̃ > œ̃
ĩ ỹ ũ > ẽ œ̃ õ

Is this better?

Attempting to get some nasal vowels... How plausible is this?

(N = nasal consonant, L = liquid)
V > Ṽ / _N#, _ N [stop]#, _ N [stop] V, _ŋ, _LN
N > 0 / _[stop +voiced]#
[stop -voiced] > 0 / N_#
N > 0 / VL_#
ŋ > g / V[+nasalized]_#, V[+nasalized]_C
ø̃ > œ̃
ĩ ỹ ũ > ẽ œ̃ õ

A ZBB thread turned into an argument about the nature of color. Somebody said "You seem to have a different definition of color than me." Somebody else wrote something to the effect of green blue red yellow Also, I forgot to mention something about my previous dream about the woods: it had backgroun...

I think the dream was long and complicated, but the only part I remember was going into a patch of woods at night with four or five other people, and we tied our hands to each other's hands so we wouldn't get separated. We were (I think) trying to solve a crime, but the suspect had gone into a hospi...

• Kensiu puts Germanic languages to shame: it distinguishes six levels of height (seven if the diphthong /ie/ is included), and also has a retroflexed vowel /ɚ/. It doesn't appear to actually distinguish six levels: front vowels are /i ɪ e̝ e ɛ/ (five), central /ɯ ɚ ə ʌ a/ (five), back /u o̝ o ɔ/ (...

Darkgamma wrote:

Earthling wrote:(Side note: Why is this thread called "Akana Conlang Relay (Now with pumpkin.)"?)

It is a conlang relay set in Akana, and it has pumpkin.

I don't see a pumpkin anywhere...

(Side note: Why is this thread called "Akana Conlang Relay (Now with pumpkin.)"?)

treegod wrote:Isn't that the American Sign Language alphabet?

Yes, but N and O seem to be switched, as are S and T.

There's a more recent version of that map here (and also somewhere in this thread)

Astraios wrote:Because I'm better than you.

And to think that in my dream, you're nothing but gorilla bait.

I haven't thought much about methods of punishment. Lamprey baths. Lamprey baths!! ... What's a lamprey bath? I googled it and got a bunch of addresses (lamprey street, lamprey lane, etc.) Use your imagination. Oh. Well you see, I didn't know what a lamprey was, and I didn't think to google just "l...

Xephyr wrote:

zompist wrote:I haven't thought much about methods of punishment.

Lamprey baths. Lamprey baths!!

... What's a lamprey bath? I googled it and got a bunch of addresses (lamprey street, lamprey lane, etc.)

There was some giant and mean gorilla-like creature locked in a building, and for some reason ZBBers were taking turns going in to the building. I was afraid to go in because not that long ago the gorilla had picked up zompist and squeezed him for so long he almost suffocated. (because naturally bei...

Darkgamma wrote:And what be the capital of Warsaw?

I don't know. My head didn't tell me.