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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...

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...

Yeah, absolutely. I'm definitely going to be in the same boat. Thanks for a great implementation!

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.

The glory! The worship!

...the burning feeling of jealousy that I didn't do it first!

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.

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...

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...

Finally, an answer:

3:06:46 AM - pthagnar: I'M A SUB-MARXIST ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PSEUDOLOGIST

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...

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 ...

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...)

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.

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".

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?...

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...

Makrenei saritē kin. Trūindeia sakan, mītevīkan il makrete il nolī melīne!
I could do macrons. Look at me, queen of macrons everywhere!

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...

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...

Sanlíyerya trúindré, khé des trúedré...
Look closer, and you'll see.

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!

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...

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.

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...

Alkúenéú! Alez ptenú vizé.
Precisely! It's no defect.

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