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This website wrote: Buffalo. "Engage in bamboozlement." Buffalo buffalo. "American bison are characteristically given to engaging in bambloozlement." Buffalo buffalo buffalo. "American bison are characteristically given to bamboozling other members of their species." Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...

I've heard the name Kennedy comes from the Irish Gaelic meaning "ugly head."

It's a pretty fuzzy topic, IMO, but I'd say that "seeing" in that sense would be a straight out verb, because it doesn't function of an adjective. A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective, as the past participle baked in We had some baked b...

I wouldn't say that's a participle, Merc, though the -ing suffix is found in participles. A participle is basically a verb turned into an adjective. For example: Look at the man sing. Look at the singing man. In the first sentance, "sing" is a verb. In the second sentance, "singing" is an adjective ...

That's pretty interesting, but I think most of Zomp's influences came from Slavic langs for Verdurian. Tho' I could be mistaken. Regardless, welcome to the board! We have a lot of Finns on this board, I believe you're number 8. So you should feel right at home. If you're a geek or a pervert, even be...

There's Shm for Shriftomi.

(I think thats how ya spell it.)

Drydic_guy wrote:something....Kamehameha....something

Wasn't he the king of Hawai'i?

Despite years of Spanish, I always had the bad habit of forming the future tense as "Voy a X" instead of properly using the conjugation I should have. It wasn't actually incorrect (at least by the dialect I was learning), but it sounded a bit...juvenile. "I'm gonna do X, I'm gonna do Y" isn't the m...

I wrote:Pentekonter in Wede:i and Kebreni

Heh, I'm by no means fluent with either of them. I just whipped out the grammar and lexicon and did my sentances. I wonder what the bilingual demographics are on Almea.

I would imagine just as if you were saying "shh!" and then "mmhmm" without the "hmm". (Syllabic /m/, don't you know.)

I just tried the Flaidish. 7ok sachno porrt; neva 7emvon mauk troomen. 7ok sach-no porr-t; ne-va 7en-von mauk troom-en. I eat-definate-irrealis glass-acc; it(sub.)-me(acc.) habit-not can hurt-infinitive A little more complicated then Wede:i syntax, I must say. (Not sure if syntax is the right word t...

Hehe, if you noticed, I avoided Zomp's langs with gender, case, etc.

How'd we do, Zomp?

I've seen the following sentance on a few sites, translated into various conlangs. I can eat glass, it does not hurt me. I've tried to translate the above sentance into Wede:i and Kebreni. Here goes: Go:źingju ngol-zaukaming; go:źur koksazeno. Go:ź-ing-ju ngol-zau-ka-ming; go:ź-ur koksa-ze-no. Eat-I...

I'd have to say that I agree with Rory on the colons. They just aren't too ?sthetically pleasing. Of course, I don't particularly like macrons, either. Wede:i Wedeei Wed?i Wed?i Wed?i Hmmmm ::remembers that it's not his conlang:: I really like the daughter languages. They do a good job capturing the...

For your information, Zomp. The "Cool! I want to do that" and the "What a geek you must be! Get a life!" links aren't working in the italian translations of the LCK. Also, in the portuguese translation, they link to the English answers. Just thought I'd let ya know. How's that Finnish translation co...

It did that to me, too, Glenn. My problem was that I had to change my Screen Area from 800 by 600 pixels to 1024 by768 pixles. (To do this in Windows, just right click on the desktop and click properties and then click on the Settings tab...then use the little slide bar to adjust the screen size) An...

I don't know, I find that kind of stupid and offensive. Between listing Ebonics as a constructed language, and performing an over the top parody of it. Ick, somebody needs to have their cultural assumptions washed out with soap. Meh, i dont find it offensive. (Then again, i'm white) I think that it...

I took a look at the other ones. The Our Father in Ebonics...hahaha.

zompist wrote:Since I don't really like inventing roots (and yet did that aplenty for Elkar?l), I usually borrow vocabulary from all over. For Flaidish I decided to steal most of the vocabulary from a single source. See who can find what it is...

We never found out the source!!

Zomp in the Elkaril grammar wrote:Though they cannot be written in our transcription (they can be in Elkar?l), vowels between u / ? / i can be used to indicate finer distinctions.

I checked the orthography section and i didnt see anything about in between vowels. Maybe I missed something, but would you care to elaborate?

zompist wrote:It's not like a medieval Arab choosing to live in China; it's more like choosing to live among orangutans.

Wow, very good point. Of course, wouldnt it be a little different considering species can communicate?

Hehe how fun!

Honestly Zomp, how the hell do you come up with this stuff? That was incredible. Once again, you have not ceased to amaze me. I'd definately like to see some more Elkaril samples, preferably in the stylized form as in the original stone head.

WHAT'S THE OTHER ONE!!!!!

This is really for natural languages, but if you're looking for foreign curse words, why not try your local neighborhood search engine? (google, yahoo, etc.) Then try a search for "The Alternative Dictionaries"