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Username: Matrix Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Skitty, Skittles Birthplace: Montreal Place of residence: Vancouver Occupation: Lapsed Student Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): Frankie, Sarah, Leo, Silly, and Spots, all cats. From the left: Fran...

Central Caber ile [iˈlɛ] Mecongai ele [ɛˈʟɛ]
Central Caber sizmo [sizˈmɔ] Mecongai szmo [sz̩ˈmo]
Central Caber mule [muˈlɛ] Mecongai mole [moˈʟɛ]
Central Caber sile [siˈlɛ] Mecongai szle [sz̩ˈʟɛ]

I think I have a handle on the phonological side of diachronics, and grammar generally has enough structure to where I can usually come up with some interesting and sensical changes. But semantic change is mind-boggling. Sure, there's always gonna be some words that keep generally the same meaning o...

So my graphics card (GeForce 660 Ti) has randomly decided to die on me. Last night, I took a nap for a couple of hours or so, and then when I woke up, the resolution on my monitor was too small, making everything stretched out and blurry. Thinking my cat must have mindlessly pressed keys and/or mous...

Well, there's La Langue Gauloise by Georges Dottin, 1920. But it's in French, so if you don't know that, you'll have a bit of trouble using it.

Tikkòn patrará [paʈará] :> Northeastern Pre-Xenosian paṭara [ˈpaʈaʀa] :> Northern Proto-Xenosian barā :> Old Xenosian para [ˈpaːra] :> Xenosian pera [pɛˈra] Tikkòn sümár [sʉmár] :> Northeastern Pre-Xenosian sumara [ˈsumaʀa] :> Northern Proto-Xenosian sumā :> Old Xenosian suma [ˈsuːma] :> Xenosian su...

All the Dama words speak to my senses. This is how I memorized them, although I did not define them. I feel the word JEMO is salty, BAWO is bitter, SUWO is warm, and so on. Some of you will laugh, I know, because somebody else told me he doesn't get feelings from words. American people, you see, we...

As a Canadian, I had four years of mandatory French from grades 4 to 8. I did not continue with it. I mean, I suppose it's technically not a foreign language, since it's one of the official languages of Canada... But all the francophones live on the other side of the continent. So it may as well be ...

hwhatting wrote:That said, learning German is always a good idea and very rewarding in itself.

Says the German.

While the Salenzian Tradition and Sublimism are the two largest religions on Salenzis, there are a couple other major religions, but they are, for the most part, confined to one country each. These are the pantheons of Propha and Xenas, respectively. Something interesting about the two is that while...

Directly, it could become something like [ʃ], [ɕ], or [ç] - perhaps even more than one of them, depending on the surrounding environment - and from there there are of course many ways those consonants could go. Also, there is a certain tendency - at least among English speakers, not sure about other...

Matrix, that's a lot of neat ideas! Thanks! I'm curious, though; is Maikros a setting where magic is clearly and verifiably real? Yes. And if so, are the gods actual individuals that a person could potentially meet and interact with? The way you write about the Sublime Goddess, it sounds like she's...

Viktor77 wrote:I've seen some doozies, like Aloe Vera/Aloë Vera.

Haha, yeah, we get a lot of shit like that in Canada.

On Maikros, the religions I've developed the most come from the continent of Salenzis, though there is also the Shorragite religion. As for the Salenzian religions, there are two major systems that account for most of the population of Southern Salenzis: The Salenzian Tradition and the Sublime Templ...

Bedik /p b mb ɓ t d nd ɗ c ɟ ɲɟ ʄ k ɡ ŋɡ ʔ/ <p b bb bh/hb t d dd dh/hd c j jj jh/hj k g gg gh/hg> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n nn ng> /r/ <r> /f s ʂ h/ <f s sh h> /w l j/ <w l y> /i ɨ e ə ɛ a ɔ o u/ <i ie ei eu e a oa o u> /fajər ləcəkɔ Urɨn ɔɗ ɟamani lɛ, la wɔ jeɗəkɔ ar kənjo Gindeʄ ɛn Urɨn alɛ. əŋɡ Urɨn ɔɗ jek...

Viktor77 wrote:but I can't stand Coleman. She's so dang perfect, there's nothing about her that's remotely interesting.

lolwat

Clara is far from perfect. She's a bossy control freak. She's rash. She can't get enough adventure. All of these are both strengths and weaknesses.

Hurga ker Maja has these so far: nalar - an epithet that refers to people who trade sex for things; roughly translatable as "whore". sarkart - literally, "dragon food". as an adjective, can be idiomatically translated as things such as "fucked", "screwed", "gone to shit", etc. as a noun, refers to a...

What kind of technology do the Là have, for context?

1. High tone lowers and fronts vowel. 2. Low tone heightens and backs vowel. 3. Falling tone lowers and backs vowel. 4. Rising tone heightens and fronts vowel. 5. Falling-rising tone centralizes vowel. 6. Standardization of negation particle. 7. Addition of negation particle before 'can't', which wo...

Sexual mores in the Maja Empire are in many ways more open than in our societies, but in some ways not so much. It is probably also worth mentioning that the society I am talking about here is more technologically advanced than us. So, the first thing to say is that sex, in modern Maja culture, is o...

Richard W wrote:What is meant by 'Indo-European' here? I would have thought that Hittite tables counted as Indo-European! Or are they no longer 'archaeological material'?

Indo-European as in Proto-Indo-European.

For me, dogs and docks are [dɑgz] and [dɑks].

Sorry, I just have to ask... how exactly does one go about rejecting comparative linguistics as a valid field of study? I mean, what does that even look like? Do they offer any reasoning behind that? That just seems so weird... Archaeologists who agree with Renfrew must dismiss what linguists have ...

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