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Saravyérya rezseteté. Vintshai il thúplinelío sara tsheyúzepenizeia lí. sarav-yér-ya rez-set-eté. vintsh-ai il thúplin-elí-o s-ara tsheyúz-ep-en-izeia lí. desirable-COMP-ADV must-eat-AOR.1.SG. employee-PL.N.NOM of fry-PLACE-SG.ART.Ø 1-SG.ACC remember-INCH-PROG-PRES.3.PL DEDUCTIVE. I need to eat bet...

While expressing dismay at Legion's assignment of blame re the Pacific Theatre of WW2,

That sounds entirely understandable. Keep in mind that the concept of a two-spirit person has a pretty narrow cultural origin, so make sure it's appropriate before appropriating it. ...and I think I'm going to split my post so it doesn't grow forever in obscurity: 13. Mímíaté Lexembris—hedí kelí stu...

CatDoom wrote:anq'ay [ænq'ɑj]
1. (n.) the pursuit of a wife or female sexual partner
2. (intr. or tr. v.) to go pursue or look for a wife or female sexual partner

From anq, "woman, wife; to marry," and 'ay, "man; to hunt"

...so what do you do for hermaphrodites and/or androgynes?

«Iret»-ú kelnoseí venzekíenú vezé. Mares illotetelíekú, ro lú réya arledré. Khé, mefañgréú, roní okhanai lezgedrim.
"Iret" is a pretty weak curse. You should take that back to the drawing board. And, seriously, lighten up.

Sa thímeké ídeté híéú; yeñgí stai alezsarezeia dí?
I vote for warmth (thíme) as well; doesn't everyone?

Cev/Rhetorica: scouse is the easiest one to learn to recognise, because it turns coda (sometimes even non-coda) /k/ into an affricate or fricative (sometimes lightly, sometimes very strongly). Also, it fronts /A/, /U/, and /u/ quite strongly, and I think the first element in /oU/ as well. Right, I ...

Canadian here. I've been watching trashy BBC panel shows for a few years and experience has led me to be able to distinguish the following English accents: Really Northern (e.g. Ross Noble), Just Plain Northern (e.g. Johnny Vegas), Southern (e.g. Sue Perkins), and of course Cockney and RP. Monty Pyt...

Thessian Standard Kuanid kuu [kwu]

Ekla trúedré kin dí, tsenú atetíai «Cinnamon Toast Crunch»-enú amezeia kwedzin?
(No translation required.)

Eek! Time to catch up. 9. Tsipíaté Lexembris—vintshika (the manner of an employee) bíze : work, especially manual labour ( bízé , to labour) sare : activity or work ( saré , to do or make) kyétabíze : job ( kyéta , indicating habituality + work) zíbízo : reward or payment ( zí , response + work + ar...

In my experience, honestly, Antichamber was about forcing you to think outside of the box on every problem. There are only ever a limited set of actions you can make in any given puzzle, and a fair number of them rely on paying close attention to environmental cues and taking time to experiment with...

metzoridto (mɛtzoːɹɪˈroː)—sweet bit. (-idtu = locus)
metzoripso (mɛtzoːɹɪˈpsoː)—sweetie, sweetlet (-ipsu = dimunitive)

Masculine (-o) gender indicates artificiality; grapes could probably be described with the same words in the feminine (-a) gender.

Next: credit (any definition)

Rhetorica: How about a gloss for your unicorn sentences? Katei! Sa elenú sariza kin. Right! I could do that. libr-enú hed-ya mithéy-il-is book-N.SG.ACC about-ADV unicorn-F.PL.GEN-postfix.ADJ book about unicorns libr-enú mithéy-il-is book-N.SG.ACC unicorn-F.PL.GEN-postfix.ADJ book of unicorns Ol-ú v...

Every now and then you come up with a phrase or word in one language that sounds utterly ridiculous in another. Unconsciously as conlangers we may try to avoid these (I'm sure everyone has giggled at least once at the frequency and inbocuousness of "shit" in Japanese) but a few generally still get t...

Khé otalya «hedu» hé «hedí» ilú «about which» hé «about» aninkai. (Pensí kaporurezei gésturíhé vizeia.) And now I'd like to test "hedu" and "hedí", as "about which" and "about". (Semi-complementizers are fun.) Olú vizé, mí librenú hedú mithéyanai vezé. This is a book which is about unicorns. Olú li...

I think we now need a new theme of the week, however vague it may be? Come back to us, Sir Cedh of Cheddar.

natosarobí. a. Reversible. (nato- = reverse, saré = to do, -arobí = -able)
anatosarobí. a. Irreversible. (a[l[é[z]]]- = not, only reducible to a- before certain prefixes like 'nato')

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Most clusters these days run Linux on standard Intel or AMD 64-bit CPUs. You actually can run climate simulators on home computers (if they're running Linux or Unix), but they'd take years to run enough data to be significant. The real issue is that you can't get the source code or binaries for most...

Vesíaté Lexembris: stílegidtu : guideline (write + lead + locus, by analogy with stízellidtu, write + natural/true order + locus) stílegiku : guidebook (write + lead + path) érepé : to explore (egé, 'to go' + repé, 'to find') entrúé : to look at (relocated progressive infix + to see) ané : to examin...

I did actually define an idiom as being a metaphor or euphemism, not just a metaphor, but close enough. I'll put a link to your post in the OP. Íomanezinení Lilitika: Ra hemai dí, Zéa? "Even you, sweetheart?" (Notably this uses NOM instead of VOC for "Zéa," suggesting baby-talk bad grammar, and is f...

CC/CC/_ works by keeping the first value it encounters (atka → atta), so you'll need to write rules for every final voiceless plosive, e.g. Ct/tt/_ This is why you can't do metathesis with DC/CD/_ (where C = D). The special metathesis rule, DC/\\/_ can't be combined with other characters (e.g. DC\a\...

<Legion> I would think they'd rather use sodium cyanides <Legion> for poisoning an individual? <Rhetorica> Pretty sure they do, yeah. <Rhetorica> Bitter almonds contain glycoside amygdalin. When eaten, glycoside amygdalin will turn into prussic acid, a.k.a. hydrogen cyanide <Legion> the liver can b...

Artaxes: NS/SS/_
Where N is the assimilated category and S is the assimilating category.

Yeah, I thought about the smell-y part. But with eating it's a sentence fragment so we can't really say.