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What, you mean like this? hea "poyano suure": mano sana 4ye. raka sokiva ita ha huno oma apiña kuripina neta otiñukava: ii payupa maña sunokiva hi, mape saro homepiñipa tutukavo karo utepa tayakavo: saki hea supañusa yakavo, sitaño, ma sunokiva, ita ta yoñi homepiñi raka yata netekayo: ha mana okura...

Isn't every christmas a white christmas in Finland? I went there once in february and it was minus 20 C, I could hardly breathe (such temperatures virtually never occur in Holland, at least not in the coastal region where I come from, though it occurs sporadically inland). Though I did go inland an...

Essentially, if you are making an a priori conlang, that implies you have to pull most of it e posteriori.

I've been prettydragoon from day one, and that is my name in most other places as well.

I use Open Office and Notepad. The Rireinutire lexicon lives in an .xls spreadsheet. I've got separate sheets for English to Rireinutire and Rireinutire to English wordlists. As of this writing, there are 3,638 headwords in the Rireinutire list and 6,697 headwords in the English list.

Missed this somehow. The age-old method is rivers. Having your own pool is an aspiration not only in Verduria but in (say) Xurno and Uytai. There are some regions (e.g. Luduyn) where that biological urge must be muted. Br-r-r-r! Not necessarily! In Britain there are people who like swimming in open...

Thry wrote: "I had loved her" .

ma hana repiko yakiva:

ma

1S.NOM

hana

3RS-PTV

repiko

romantic.love-PP

yakiva

be-PST-SENS

I had loved her.

Nortaneous wrote:henmxaz
gay

ñihipe:
ñihipe
normal.NOM
Lesbian.

Stephenson (1992) hinted at such a direction for research.

But it's not wokky if it's not sauce. D: Okay then. :/ Is this a Thing in Sweden or something? I mean "wok" meaning a style or genre of food? I would find that unsurprising. Here in Finland, 'wokki' seems to be used not only as the name of the cooking utensil but also as the word for a dish that ha...

The Rireinukave have many and varied kinds of performance art, as you might expect from a starfaring species. Here are a couple that I have especially noticed: Eiha , a traditional form of theatre, is highly stylised and formalised. The characters are gods, demons, and heroes. The face and body pain...

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KathAveara wrote:In other words, there is a very small closed class of verbs?

Yes, exactly!

This language no verbs.

Well, almost. I've been thinking about a conlang with no lexical verbs. It would use light verbs with an appropriate noun or adjective instead.
Such as

do word ::= speak
do food ::= eat
make food ::= cook
do foot ::= walk

yo Torokini to ipi noñena sukekiseyo: Q Tolkien.NOM also lonely fault-PTV discuss-PST-NEG-Q Didn't Tolkien already speak of the solitary vice? ita ñira· ma to sunemu nipoha omakava: and.then yes 1S.NOM also word-ACC masturbation-ADE have-PRS-SENS And yes, I too have a word for masturbation.

I am an accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest. Basics Username: prettydragoon Name: Other nicknames: Birthplace: Helsinki FI Place of residence: Helsinki FI Occupation: accountant Identity Gender: female Sexuality: bi Relationship: yes Nationality: Finnish Ethnicity: Finnish Reli...

I live on the sunny South Coast of Finland and I've lived here all my life. My first language is Finnish. I'm fluent in Swedish, I get by in German, and I struggle with Hindi.

If you mean cost as in 'to estimate the cost of', then yes, its past tense is costed.

"The company hadn't costed the marketing campaign, which cost them dearly."

Chin hīpaogmyūgīk Aŕthidə ḍūpeya grūwadi ŕiṭidagaldəh bŕūṇi wūl ḍūp hyouh kun chin gōwam ŕigaldidə beng xatī gomekəh. Just because on Earth it may be true that there is a need for states to have flags doesn't mean the same rules also apply in other worlds. saki kunukave· hii me heno miyamu vorata h...

sika soo raku yakasehu· niyi yote kerikahuyo· hii saha kiño yakahu: but if flag.NOM be-PRS-NEG-SBJV then how.Q know-PRS-SBJV-Q that there state.NOM be-PRS-SBJV But if you have no flag, how do you know that there is a state there? ke mpaka hamako The border guard. Ge d'adamaz tan eig nadardant s'adr...

yo kiño rakumu nopo yata hopokayo: Q state.NOM flag-ACC without be-INF can-PRS-Q You can't have a state without a flag. Ig denkt dē nikkt. I don't think so. sika soo raku yakasehu· niyi yote kerikahuyo· hii saha kiño yakahu: but if flag.NOM be-PRS-NEG-SBJV then how.Q know-PRS-SBJV-Q that there stat...

Kë acun dacëmrag i felitö pa gecn nvacho? Ë i nili nivachi? Ktâ hets b'bedgeves e flit p'khemni colnâvo? O e nâvid qura? Who here has made a flag for his/her made-up country? Or perhaps a national anthem? ma rireinuha rakumu teñeko yakava: 1S.NOM Rireinu-ADE flag-ACC make-PP be-PRS-SENS I have made...

Wait, wait, why are people still using the old test, I [completely forgot that I] revised it, use this one instead Well then. Let's see how Rireinutire fares now. As a reminder, Rireinutire has a fairly restricted phonology: /p t k Ɂ m n ŋ v s h ɹ j ɑ i u e o/ (C)V(Ɂ) True - green Half-true - blue ...

What's this about Finnish lacking profanity? Looks like gullible foreigners. And the fact that it's dead easy to come up with good stories if you don't expect to get checked. B-b-but I've got evidence and all! This picture right here, see! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/prettydragoon/new_ly...

You can have any name you want, but the name should have some meaning. I usually tend to create toponyms that may sound strange to the English ear, but have some relation to the location. Rosadure "from us(exclusive)" was the first Kutorenian settlement in the "new world". Yes, there should be mean...

siñi mano emotire rooroña kise yakave· ma mei yakava:
because 1S-GEN mother-language decree-COM weird be-PRS-HSY 1S.NOM happy/pleased be-PRS-SENS
I am pleased that my mother tongue is officially weird.