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- Thu May 17, 2018 8:39 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 214577
- Thu May 17, 2018 8:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 325961
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Me three. I always have allergies, and they're worse at some times than at other times, but I don't recall them ever being that bad. My sense of smell is often shitty, though (because my nose is stuffed - but again, there are stuffed noses and then there are stuffed noses). Linguoboy, this may be a ...
- Wed May 16, 2018 7:28 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 325961
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Is this really the right thread for a political discussion?
- Wed May 16, 2018 7:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Pe jos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4629
Re: Pe jos
Never thought about it that way, thanks! I was thinking it would make sense because, well, feet are the lowest part of your body.
- Wed May 16, 2018 7:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
jal wrote:Min in se bo wo yu tok.Vijay wrote:Who is "Yu"?
I don't know what you're talking about.
JAL
Yeh!jal wrote:Yu must be a magic man!
JAL
This!
- Tue May 15, 2018 10:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Population numbers for languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13202
Re: Population numbers for languages
Huh, that's odd. Now I don't see anything about 37 million. It does however say "27,300,000 (2015)" for me. Maybe I misread that 27 as 37? Interesting, it sounds like you have access to a more updated edition of Ethnologue than I do. :) The estimate I cited was from 2001. :P I don't know to what ex...
- Tue May 15, 2018 7:07 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
"Yu" kaun hai?
Yu who is
Who is "Yu"?
Yu who is
Who is "Yu"?
- Mon May 14, 2018 2:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Pe jos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4629
Pe jos
AFAIK, in Romanian, the equivalent for 'on foot' is pe jos . This always confuses me because pe means 'on', but jos does NOT mean 'foot' but rather 'down' or 'low'! Apparently, pe jos can also mean something like 'on the floor' at least in some contexts. Are there any other languages that use an exp...
- Sun May 13, 2018 4:05 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Population numbers for languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13202
Re: Population numbers for languages
I suspect they've pulled that number from Ethnologue, where it says that all varieties of Minnan together are spoken by 37 million people in mainland China . Wait a minute, doesn't Ethnologue say that 25.7 million people speak Minnan in China (I presume this means mainland China)? Or is that outdat...
- Sun May 13, 2018 4:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Population numbers for languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13202
Re: Population numbers for languages
OK, on second thought, 80 million is probably way off. See below for brainstorming that led me to this conclusion :P But when I click on to the page about Yuehai, it says only 13 million. :? I know, but it comes with a question mark, and that estimate is from 1998, whereas the other one is from 2009...
- Sat May 12, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Population numbers for languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13202
Re: Population numbers for languages
The Cantonese spoken in Hong Kong is not identical to the prestigious standard spoken in Guangzhou. However, the Yuehai dialects including Guangzhou dialect are apparently mutually intelligible. This says there are about 80 million speakers of all the Yuehai dialects combined, including Guangzhou di...
- Fri May 11, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Aʻatun Scratchpad: Inventory questions
- Replies: 116
- Views: 65196
Re: Altrunian Conlang Scratchpad: Inventory questions
Malayalam has /jj/ and /ʋʋ/.
- Thu May 10, 2018 11:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Wowgrrr meow grroove kya grrowl aeiougrrr grrowrrr-grrowrrr xcrratching ke barre men.
adult.male.mountain.lion NEG know what say human cub-cub writing POSS about(?) LOC
I don't know what to say about Nort's new orthography.
adult.male.mountain.lion NEG know what say human cub-cub writing POSS about(?) LOC
I don't know what to say about Nort's new orthography.
- Thu May 10, 2018 10:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 210845
- Wed May 09, 2018 7:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Wê ad'òp d'ìum ẽe b'iuhaei càe hí mà ciujôp càing sí? INT sound same DAT word many REL INST LANG-cat mountain DIR [wɛ̤ ʔɐɗɔ̀p ɗɨ̀m ʔɛ̰ɛ ɓɨˈhǣi cæ̀ hí mɑ̀ cɨˈɟɔ̤p cɑ̀iŋ sí] Are many words homophones in mountain lion? Grrm, Wowgrrr meow grroove. "Grrowrrr" grrr "grrr." Rrekin bat grrowl oogrry makrra...
- Tue May 08, 2018 11:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Grrowrrr hai, wowgrrr hai, grrmph hai, xab grrowrrr. Rrekin wowgrrr grrr grrmph meow grrowka grrowrrr. mountain.lion.cub is adult.male.mountain.lion is adult.female.mountain.lion is all mountain.lion but adult.male.mountain.lion CONJ adult.female.mountain.lion NEG small mountain.lion There are moun...
- Tue May 08, 2018 7:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Grrowrrr.
Yes.
Grrowrrr grrowrrr grrowrrr!
The mountain lion cub is a good mountain lion!
Yes.
Grrowrrr grrowrrr grrowrrr!
The mountain lion cub is a good mountain lion!
- Tue May 08, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Grrowrrr! Grrowrrr grrek grrowrrr grrarrr.
yes mountain.lion live mountain.lion home
Yes! Mountain lions live in the Americas.
yes mountain.lion live mountain.lion home
Yes! Mountain lions live in the Americas.
- Mon May 07, 2018 1:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 230849
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
https://www.google.com/search?q=enginee ... gS2AOG5snM:Travis B. wrote:I wonder how you email or text someone an engineer.
- Mon May 07, 2018 1:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Montan layan in fit de bikton (o olda wan ton, fo mata). Dem u denja bis. Mountain lions don't belong in cities (or any settlement for that matter). They are dangerous animals. JAL Grrowrrr meow grrek xirrygrrarrr, rro aeiougrrr meow grrek grrowrrr grrarrr? mountain.lion NEG live city-cave or human...
- Mon May 07, 2018 9:33 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 778824
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Kabhi kabhi grrowrrr bi grrek xirrygrrarrrr.
sometimes sometimes mountain.lion also/two live city-cave
Sometimes, mountain lions live in cities, too.
sometimes sometimes mountain.lion also/two live city-cave
Sometimes, mountain lions live in cities, too.
- Sun May 06, 2018 4:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 675525
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
I just say [θɛjŋk].
- Sun May 06, 2018 2:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Is it better to say "for you and me" than "for me and you"?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7334
- Sat May 05, 2018 7:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 434277
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
A conversation at work today reminded me that the euphemistic term for a corpse in Malayalam is the English phrase dead body . The other term for a corpse is the Sanskrit loanword [ɕəˈʋəm], which nowadays is apparently considered crude. So instead of asking "[ɕəˈʋəm en̪d̪iˈjeː]?" 'where is the corps...
- Thu May 03, 2018 7:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages without Quantifier Hopping?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11355
Re: Languages without Quantifier Hopping?
I think something similar might be true of Malayalam, too, but I should probably test the 'not' part at least on my dad, and I need different sentences because I'll be damned if I have any clue how to talk about conlanging in Malayalam. :P Maybe something more like "in the field, the landlord doesn'...