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Alternation of generations basically means it either reproduces sexually or asexually, depending on the way it was conceived. Ps. Gumi is my favorite (especially the V2 version. And she's my favorite Engloid since her English version came out too.) Pps. Most of you won't understand the postscriptum....

Just yesterday, I found another great German word to add to my collection of amusing "untranslatables": Morgenmuffel "person who is grumpy in the mornings". I like that word. I don't know if it exists, but I'm looking for a one-word synonym for "inhabitant of a capital" as in Spanish "capitalino" o...

ma himeta virikava hii ute >makaronoña< kaa rope ipa peukahuva: I like to watch two males with large macrons playing together. soo ta mano niimu kanekahuvo: If you know what I mean. Hanonic luzevaecvai bivelca?! ['xanɔnik lu'zevægvaj bi'vɛlka] man-exp-gen sex-exp-gen-Q say-impf.subj.sing.thrd You m...

I like the way you've used metathesis, I usually don't get any more exotic than reduplication ! Just a question: is it completely a priori or are there loanwords from earthlangs?

Tor santhut gulelcasvai irenaesen?
[tɔr 'santʰut gu'lɛlkazvaj i'rɛnæsɛn]
You-act.pl candy-exp.pl eat-fut.subj.sing.thrd-Q be.angry-fut.subj.prog.speak-NEG
Why don't y'all have some sweets and stop fighting?

Last night's dream made absolutely no sense. I was on a family holiday in some sort of house with a giant buffet. My sister got mad at me because I ate the last piece of apple pie. We drove away in what was probably an English car (the driver's seat was on the right.) with two houses and a trailer b...

Old Kaʔoosyu teeʔeena [te:ʔe:na] Lothan teina ['tena]

Bìlechte donazulyikinazubi [dɔ̃ˈnˠazʊˌʎekɪ̃ˌnazʊbɪ] Aran δοννάζουιεκινναζουβι (donnázouiecinnazoubi) [dɔ'nazujesɪnazubi]

My native language, Dutch, has two different types of the phoneme /x/: "soft" (southern, my variant), and "hard" (northern, the standard Netherlandic dialect). According to Wikipedia, this difference is due to POA: "soft" is palatal /ç/ to front-velar /x/, and "hard" velar /x/ to uvular /χ/, but I b...

Esmelthien wrote:

sacemd wrote:

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: Where is the toilet? - Warr iss dē pispott? [ˈʋɑrː ɪsː dɛ ˈpí:spɔtː]

DAT CONLANG

Is that an unlikely Dutch decendant I see there?

Nah. Probably a sister language or an alternate history.

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: Where is the toilet? - Warr iss dē pispott? [ˈʋɑrː ɪsː dɛ ˈpí:spɔtː]

DAT CONLANG

I've never heard the word hoerenzoon and I would laugh at anyone calling me that. And most English swear words/phrases can't be translated directly: e.g. teef (bitch) neuk jou (fuck you) and stront (shit). I reccomend using the English equivalents when shouting at a Dutch native speaker.

Dutch:

Kaasomelet or omelet met kaas
"cheese-omelette" and "omelette with cheese", respectively.

Jęžьlьšь sanъ [sa.nʌ̆] Unnamed Proto-Conlang sana [sana] Unnamed Ancient Conlang than [θan]

A reverse SCA. You have a naming language, and want to make a relative, but you have no ancestor worked out.

A checklist and a conjugator would be really useful too.

What will the orthography be like? My proposal: /ʙ ʟ̝ ɢ̆ ᴙ ɴ [glottal nasal implosive affricate]/ <b'r gll rgr hrq nqg 'nh> or <ȣ ƪ ȝ ṙ ƣ ƕ> A few words: b'rgll (intj): expresses disgust or discontent gll'nh (intj): help I am choking on a piece of cake please apply the Heimlich maneuver rgr'nh (intj...

I was thinking of throwing four of the sounds away and limiting the phonological inventory to /ʙ/...

Or are you okay with a glottal nasal implosive affricative?

Senbonzakura - Hatsune Miku (Maybe I should slow down a bit on Japanese music... nah.)

- The language has the following phonological inventory: /ʙ ʟ̝ ɢ̆ ᴙ ɴ/. There are no vowels.
- The language has interjections only: no nouns, verbs or adjectives
- The language has 7 cases: intrative, egressive, prosecutive, pegative, aversative, exessive and translative. These are marked by tonality.

What I usually do is first use the basic letters, and then ask myself if I want digraphs or diacritics. (This is usually diacritics for vowels and digraphs for consonants for me). I usually don't like to use the same diacritic only once (as in only â, but no ô or ê) So I'd spell /æ a e ə o ɪ ʊ i u a...

Azunan gúnyu [ˈgúnɥʏ] Aran γόυνϝυ (góunwu) ['ɣunʋy]

On a related note, what about the shapes of the letters themselves? I've always loved "c" and strongly disliked "k", and am ambivalent about "s"; hence, I try to use "c" in my conlangs as much as possible. Anybody else feel the same way? My native language is Dutch and <k> is much more common than ...

Cveban vnoˤnz [ˈvnɔ̃zˤ] Proto-Sor fenoz ['fɛnɔz] Fong föno ['fœnɔ]

Kócuok suópe [ˈsʋóβɛ] Sandae esfove [ɛs˧'ɸɔ˦βɛ˨]

Nan nan jekeek kwaloog. Woyar, naymo mar.
[næn næn ɖʐi:kʰi:kʰ kʰwælu:g. Wowjɑɻ, nejmow mɑɻ]
Human human always kill-aug. 3.obv.infor-pl, not-with eat.
People always commit homicide on each other. For them, there's no eating involved.