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to be frustrated at something to the extent that you want to physically injure yourself It's time to have fun with popular culture! Gomain yónggláksshí vüs úkóiund , "to rage against the machine" From the common experience of getting angry at some machine or other when it malfunctions. Next: annoyi...

to be chicken Gomain: ágêrtthí vôhéish údólbó zhgáxámblér (lit. "to shrink under the quetzal's shadow") Although the quetzal is a large bird of prey in the desert, it doesn't attack people, so being afraid when one of them passes overhead is seen as excessive fear. Next: something very repulsive

Astraios wrote:to be sick/fed up of smth/sb

Gomain: hrézbedhé émíhól/émíkái "to be drowned by smth/sb", e.g. ¡Hwehrézb^e zó! "I'm fed up with you!" (lit. "you drown me!")

Next: to be stingy

Yes, I think a red X certainly does speak for itself. In particular, it says:

"Schwhatever got my URL wrong!"

With that said, here's my contribution to this thread:

UTTER SEXINESS

EDIT: OK, your image works now.

Physically gume, rolewise ewez, attracted primarily to zimi and ewimo-zimi.

See also my sigquote...

linguofreak wrote:Because I've studied them all. Xurnash seems pretty cool, so I'm wondering when it will come out. Will it be the next to come out, or will it be three years down the road?

The answers to those questions need not be different...

Yeah, that still makes two when you consider the definition of a gerund; nice try, though.

OK, thanks for the participial phrase clarification, Shm Jay and Pente (acceptable shorthand?). It's back to the conlang lab for me now...

Yes, Pentekonter, that made plenty of sense. Unfortunately, I still don't understand how one could use a participle at the head of a clause, which the Sindarin course hinted at - consider the example "Seeing as there are..." from my first post. Is that a participle, or is it really something else?[/i]

In the development of my present conlang, I have been studying the various parts of grammar. I've understood all I've read - except for participles. In a Sindarin course I printed out, their meanings seem to suggest a function similar to the perfect tenses, yet in some way wholly different. Seeing a...