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by Cockroach
Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:10 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Genesis in Ojibwe
Replies: 26
Views: 7875

Re: Genesis in Ojibwe

Astraios wrote:In Lakota too: Wašíčuyapi < wašíču 'white man'. Nobody knows where wašíču really comes from, but I've heard some people say it's from wašíŋ ičú 'he takes (all the) fat' (I think it isn't, though).
Perhaps derived from Washington?
by Cockroach
Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:28 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Colours as surnames
Replies: 56
Views: 8894

Re: Colours as surnames

Green describes people who lived near the village green.
by Cockroach
Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:50 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Colours as surnames
Replies: 56
Views: 8894

Re: Colours as surnames

I've seen some Blues too. There's also Blancs. Never heard of a Pink though
by Cockroach
Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:21 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Invent an Idiom
Replies: 362
Views: 78817

Re: Invent an Idiom

Tll-Fusyn: Qos khunshyk talshyk

"The arrowsmith stabs the swordsmith"

Next: "I thought that went without saying"
by Cockroach
Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:45 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words and expressions you overuse
Replies: 46
Views: 7384

Re: Words and expressions you overuse

I use indeed alot. I also tend to be very indirect and circumlocutory in my speech.
by Cockroach
Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:21 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

This is my first time making an isolating language, so I don't know how good it will be, but I'll shoot for a sketchy grammar by sunday or monday
by Cockroach
Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:09 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

I too am still in. I've just been feeling kinda down lately. If anyone needs anything from me, feel completely free to ask. I'll see if i can't have som more Tll characters up by tommorow In fact, I've been considering the idea of setting deadlines again. Maybe something like at least one new contri...
by Cockroach
Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:10 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
Replies: 322
Views: 55266

Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily

I can't hear the difference between [ɺ] and [ɾ]
by Cockroach
Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:29 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: My beef about ɨ/ɯ
Replies: 62
Views: 9765

Re: My beef about ɨ/ɯ

linguoboy wrote: ı--A nightmare. Just what were the Turks thinking? While you're at it, why not use j for /ʤ/ and dotless j for /ʒ/ too?
How dare you! Who do you think you are to mock the linguistic innovations of the most magnificent Atatürk?
by Cockroach
Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:22 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

I've had a really bad sleep schedule lately, and inspirations been lacking. I promise to make up for lost time though.

Anything you need?
by Cockroach
Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:47 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
Replies: 197
Views: 44861

Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan

There's also Baronh, though I don't know how developed it is.
by Cockroach
Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:36 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Again, the question isn't could these inventions happen, but would they. The mechanics aren't in question, but the invention's conformity to known trends of technological development. Upon research, the only people to have developed the pot-in-pot refrigerator were from the Middle East, which leads ...
by Cockroach
Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:44 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499795

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

Damn, I've been reading the Cambridge language survey of Australian languages and I've been wanting to do a conlang based on Aboriginal languages too. O well, I guess there can be two....right?
by Cockroach
Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:26 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

But the fact that it can happen isn't the point. A quick look at the history shows that the first thing remotely approaching a refrigerator was done by William Cullen in 1756. Prior to that the height of low temperature technology was the icehouse, the world over. And yet, somehow, civilization mana...
by Cockroach
Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:27 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Also, to paraphrase what Berek said on IRC, the refrigeration system is a "Gilligan's Island" mechanism that serves only to introduce modern conveniences into your consociety.
by Cockroach
Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:46 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Started a history of the Chäng. I apologize to the Ibabawans: the Tll-Ikish have been receiving the majority of my attention, and it's quite possible that I will have to hand the responsibility of the Chäng off to one of you.
by Cockroach
Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:07 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784101

Re: Lexicon Building

Tll-Fusyn: Kinkho' [kin.xoʔ]. Like most complex Tll-Fusyn words, a compound word formed of Kin "near" and Kho' "feeling/emotion"

Next: Pious
by Cockroach
Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:55 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

I say sure! As to where to put your people... 1.) There's a few deserts and tundras that no one has claimed 2.) You could go with something like the pacific islands, where your people inhabit chains of islands that are too small to represent on the map 3.) If all else fails, I'd be willing to donate...
by Cockroach
Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:14 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Late on my promise by ten minutes >< http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww96/cephalopod_/hpqscan0001-2.jpg Also Leaci, keep in mind that any piece of Tll culture that reaches them is probably going to be filtered through the Slavasko, who the Tll-Ikish have had much more contact with. What if they d...
by Cockroach
Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:08 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Of course! I'll have at least one new page of characters up by midnight tonight, cross my heart, hope to die.
by Cockroach
Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:33 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: How do you store your lexicon?
Replies: 44
Views: 10637

Re: How do you store your lexicon?

Word
by Cockroach
Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:16 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Tll-Ikish culture test. I made it in ~4 hours, so I know it's not perfect :P FAMILY 1.) You have a mother, a father, a grandmother, a grandfather several brothers and sisters (both by blood and by adoption), and several cousins 2.) You revere your father and obey him, but feel no particular bond to ...
by Cockroach
Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:36 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

Go right ahead Amuere! Take whatever you want. If you have questions, feel free to PM me. The history of Ibabaw that's posted isn't what I'd planned for. I wanted the Chäng to be uncivilized at least until the 200 or so (the equivalent of earth 500AD). Looking at the map though, that seems kinda unl...
by Cockroach
Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:16 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Dresden Dialect
Replies: 9
Views: 2780

Re: Dresden Dialect

In a (sort of) unrelated note, what ever became of the dialects of the former eastern territories of Germany after WWII? Did they just die out after all the expelled Germans settled down in the west?
by Cockroach
Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:57 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting New)
Replies: 882
Views: 143644

Re: Yucopia Project (Massive, Collaborative, and Recruiting

BTW great job on the Qhalqon writing system Leaci. Looking at it reminds me that I still have quite a few symbols that I need to supply (I didn't make a word for arm or hand? How foolish!). I like the clear linearity of your script though (I imagine, since the Qhalqon are a forest people, that there...