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This is really cool. The script is awesome. I like how you've managed to give it a unique visual feel rather than making it look like a kanji ripoff. I think the vowel system is pretty cool too. I like how breathy front vowels are followed by [C]. I haven't looked at the grammar yet but I'm intrigue...

Nortaneous wrote:[ti.'ni.su] Insular Kett tineisu [tɪˈnɪjsʊw] Kien tnĩu [d̥ʲɲ̊iw˧˥]

I fucking knew it.

Alahithian diñesho [di.ˈɳe.ʂo] Ennuyeux tinisu [ti.'ni.su]

(this isn't actually a conlang of mine, I just wanna see how quickly this can be mutilated.)

hwhatting wrote:A: "I heard Jim wanted to go to Bill's party."
B: "Well, as far as I know, he didn't come, but I wasn't there."
Basically, B takes over the viewpoint of people who were there.

It definitely sounds better to use 'go' there, to me.

Ok, so I got around to reading the first post, at least. Sorry for taking so long. I'll work through it post by post I guess. One thing that stuck out to me was: No verbal particle, argument or other material can intervene between members of the construction. Specifically the part about arguments. I...

In the last picture I posted I looked 12, so here are some where I look more 13: http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t482/thunderbread/moi.jpg http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t482/thunderbread/moiga.jpg I guess I'm pretty incapable of taking a picture with an expression that looks natural, but.....

I'm posting this to say that I definitely will give this a proper reading and then comment. I'm interested in serial verbs, it's clear that there's a lot of thought and detail put into this, and you've been known to produce some good stuff in this past, imo.

I wanna grow a tiny plant of some sort, just for the experience of growing a plant, really. I think it'd be a soothing experience in some ways. Probably a non-edible one but I guess it doesn't matter, my biggest criteria are ease of not completely failing, and price.

Theta wrote:You could have 0 > w after back vowels in open syllables, and then have diphthongs simplify, so you end up with a > ɔ or something

Just gave me this idea, but I dunno how wacked it is:

V > V: / in open syllables, V: > V@, then develop a rounded schwa then go from there.

This and that logography? Mad conscripting cred, man.

Apparently my dad spoke Quebec French as a young whippersnapper but wasn't raised to continue speaking it. So I don't either.

Chagen wrote:

Moanaka wrote:Chagen, you might wanna change your sig.

You know, I keep trying to be a productive member here, but then someone like Wattman goes "NOPE" and decides to start screwing with me.

Ignore him.

Chagen, you might wanna change your sig.

Admittedly, Wikipedia was my main source for that. Anyway, I hope my post didn't come off as accusatory. It wasn't meant to be. Not that your post sounded defensive, I'm just making sure, you know?

Strange... I've always had an image of them as seperate: analicity refers to a lack of inflection paradigms, and isolationality to a near 1/1 M/W ratio Therefore, Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese are on the opposite sides of isolationality: Mandarin has compounds, but is very analytic; while Vietnam...

dubl post dunno how

My latest endeavour is basically all analytic, and mostly isolating. So far there is only one affix, for derivation. It doesn't have a phonology right now, and I would feel weird throwing up random glosses, so, I guess I'll just work on this till it sticks, or is at least semi-presentable. EDIT: it...

My latest endeavour is basically all analytic, and mostly isolating. So far there is only one affix, for derivation. It doesn't have a phonology right now, and I would feel weird throwing up random glosses, so, I guess I'll just work on this till it sticks, or is at least semi-presentable. EDIT: it'...

Nortaneous wrote:germanic-chinese inspired thing

(this is mbwa)

It's cool how you worked out all the finals like that, and the language does give off germanic and SE asian vibes. Where did the pharyngeal(ized) consonants come from though?