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by Rhetorica
Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexember
Replies: 135
Views: 45984

Re: Lexember

27. Leraipaté Lexembris—kadushí tetivitrai'l Terra (important Terran taxa) virina : viruses batrína : bacteria tshentéina : (/tʃɛntena/) archaeans [calqued; tshentu = past] alfeghilerina : animals [with alf- meaning "Earth"] trat-lerina : plants [Ks. tratbaga , pink-hide ("human") + lekhileru , immo...
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 9:31 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Alé! Alya idzhindra apas sainí sútshas! Hey! You're not putting him in our gender! (The Lilitika feminine gender is derived from an inanimate gender in a language that was almost as sexist as Ngolu, but mostly towards aliens. The language now actually has 5 genders: fem, neut, masc, supernatural (f...
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 7:20 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Compose key for Windows
Replies: 16
Views: 8508

Re: Compose key for Windows

Yeah, absolutely. I'm definitely going to be in the same boat. Thanks for a great implementation!
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:33 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Compose key for Windows
Replies: 16
Views: 8508

Re: Compose key for Windows

It's not entirely bad; I don't think I could ever completely give up a custom MSKLC layout in favour of a compose key. Being able to bind AltGr+E = é is a lot more efficient than, say, binding AltGr, E = é.
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:59 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Compose key for Windows
Replies: 16
Views: 8508

Re: Compose key for Windows

Image

The glory! The worship!

...the burning feeling of jealousy that I didn't do it first!
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:18 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: If natlangs were conlangs...
Replies: 120
Views: 33383

Re: If natlangs were conlangs...

KathAveara wrote:English's orthography was designed by a troll.
Yeah, but only out of admiration for the masterwork of various Gaelics. (As we've discussed.)

I think French is probably the result of someone trying to fix unwieldy roots with diachronics and failing to plan ahead for homophones.
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:37 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexember
Replies: 135
Views: 45984

Re: Lexember

Almost... there... 22. Míshutíaté Lexembris—popévai (holidays) Vendashrí Tshemsha : pageant about the exodus from Ksreskézo, often structured around spoken-word readings of accounts from the event ( Vendashro , name of the event ("Under Dashro") + tshemshé , to fall into kῶμα , i.e. lyre-trance) Ats...
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 3:09 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 719990

Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread

and at the same time: 3:05:24 AM - H13: anyway i was saying if humans were like bees it would be a good thing 3:05:25 AM - H13: sadly 3:05:29 AM - H13: humans are not like bees 3:05:39 AM - Rhetorica-L: no, it's a good thing humans are not like bees 3:05:44 AM - Rhetorica-L: bee colonies are like hu...
by Rhetorica
Fri Dec 27, 2013 3:09 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 719990

Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread

Finally, an answer:
3:06:46 AM - pthagnar: I'M A SUB-MARXIST ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PSEUDOLOGIST
by Rhetorica
Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:26 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 719990

Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread

con_quesa, upon seeing Donatan-Cleo's My Słowianie <CUM_quesa> Man the holocaust was great. <CUM_quesa> Only wish hitler had killed even *more* jews. <CUM_quesa> I am now a slavic nationalist. ...I feel I have to point out that this is deliberately taken out of context, lest a misunderstanding of c...
by Rhetorica
Thu Dec 26, 2013 10:11 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Actually, does a one person dialect count as a dialect at all? I mean... isn't that like declaring my livingroom is a micronation? Apes antes, thelurafú vezé kai... Pensí-sarafai zelwidhanai hé militrenei ossilezeia! At best, it's an idiolect... dialects require history and community! È tants? Aim ...
by Rhetorica
Thu Dec 26, 2013 12:54 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
Replies: 57
Views: 17131

Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?

Neat, but not negative number, so I doubt that was what was meant. That's just classes of nouns with collective forms instead of singulative. (Which, I suppose, is where all the languages with "complete set" numbers have gone...)
by Rhetorica
Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Imralu wrote:
Thry wrote:Tant que? El catalán es un dialect d'ambs ils aspanyol id inglés.
So what? Catalonian is a dialect of both Spanish and English.
Har ahe?
Yeah?
Kataloníka pensí-sarafara il rezí sarafasa vizé korr.
It seems Catalonian is a dialect of most languages.
by Rhetorica
Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:53 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
Replies: 57
Views: 17131

Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?

Aino Meilani wrote:I remember one my early conlang having negative number. Don't ask me what it was, I don't know.
Maybe you use it to represent reversals, e.g. in motion? I could see "-3 people went home" as meaning "3 people came".
by Rhetorica
Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:52 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
Replies: 57
Views: 17131

Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?

That's cool. Reminds me that I wrote down something about a "group of" suffix, which would turn "dog" into "dog pack" and "tree" into "forest". And, now you come to mention it, if I suffix it onto "type of Noun/s" it could have a similar effect to yours. Have you found anything similar in natlangs?...
by Rhetorica
Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:27 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
Replies: 57
Views: 17131

Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?

Also, I haven't heard anything quality-quantity inflection: a dog, some dogs, a type of dog, some types of dog. Lilitika has this: kano (dog), mí kano (one dog), kanoi (multiple dogs), kanino (the class of all dogs, normally used with the gnomic), mí kanino (one class of dogs), kaninoi (multiple cl...
by Rhetorica
Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:19 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Makrenei saritē kin. Trūindeia sakan, mītevīkan il makrete il nolī melīne!
I could do macrons. Look at me, queen of macrons everywhere!
by Rhetorica
Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:11 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexember
Replies: 135
Views: 45984

Re: Lexember

And on, and on... time to start doing shorter lists for each day. 17. Mítalkíaté Lexembris—karsurivía (friendship) karsidzhé : to befriend ( karsu , friend + idzhé , to give) kéflasé or flasé ke : to hold hands ( ke , middle voice particle + flasé , to grip—easily confused/punned with keflasé or kel...
by Rhetorica
Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:31 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
Replies: 57
Views: 17131

Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?

I have a more or less similar thing in an otherwise vaguely defined conlang: Tense markers are clitics that can be attached to nouns and verbal nouns. In my case, it doesn't imply that all nominals are treated like events or processes. Diachronically those tense markers come from a verb meaning "ex...
by Rhetorica
Mon Dec 23, 2013 7:35 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Sanlíyerya trúindré, khé des trúedré...
Look closer, and you'll see.
by Rhetorica
Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:55 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Izambri wrote:Vengaboys ras gent atzui!
Vengaboys are back in town!
Í-äha, í-ha, olú dz·hé tsenú ife'sareté,
Woa-oah, oa-oah, this is what I wanna do,
Í-äha, í-ha, serlí gestenú arlintin!
Woa-oah, oa-oah, let's have some fun!
by Rhetorica
Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Examples of truly unique conlang features?
Replies: 57
Views: 17131

Re: Examples of truly unique conlang features?

I'm planning on putting together an alien language where all nominals are treated like events or processes, and hence are subject to verbal inflections. E.g. to discuss a person you discuss their life, and noun specificity is encoded via the hypothetical case. I'm hoping to go for a language with ju...
by Rhetorica
Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:24 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Tô! Ossya mí aporafthío haspí tshítsara tsila a Ossa mizhanezeia ighella.
Ha! Of course a conlanger thought of magic words that create the universe.

...fínanéú, sa olenú híeya ighella.
...all said, I thought of that also.
by Rhetorica
Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:13 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

finlay wrote:
Rhetorica wrote:Trúnil, thesith. Rhetorikara vité.
Hi, mouth. I'm Rhetorica.
"Sun, fesekapa, zangiipun lusete."
"Hi, Mr./Ms. Mouth, I'm your father."

I hadn't even considered the potential for dad jokes in Yaufulti. You've opened my eyes... :o
Alkúenéú! Alez ptenú vizé.
Precisely! It's no defect.
by Rhetorica
Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:05 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 926787

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Trúnil, thesith. Rhetorikara vité.
Hi, mouth. I'm Rhetorica.