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by maıráí
Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:59 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Phrase Building
Replies: 59
Views: 18207

Re: Phrase Building

The barbeque should be lit up for the stakes, though that idiot over there might have forgotten about it; if he did, smack him for me will you? La-Pu, featuring my patent NFG Gloss: Prrstabawa haspibuabi cudā sizī, mū, shuňňuňisa rbakitatih. Sizasi sī, anitsita balkaki hu. Prrst-ab-awa hasp-ibuab-i...
by maıráí
Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

La-Pu:

ttaki- to take one's turn, to begin a shift, to take over a watch, to begin one's shift in guarding; to act as lookout; to scout

next: to walk out, to leave (in anger)
by maıráí
Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:46 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 763997

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Awagālaba skadaki au?
what-become-OBJ-N practice-you-do Q
What are you training in/for?
by maıráí
Sun Dec 16, 2012 11:30 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

clawgrip wrote:What's the next word?
Huh, I completely forgot that. I should stop conlanging right before I need to go somewhere.
by maıráí
Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:39 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

next: technichal difficulties La-Pu zakkan taiqa, zakktaiqa stage-GEN difficulty, stage.difficulty Originally for problems on stage (e.g. a lantern falling over), now refers to problems in anything inhuman. (Broken bridges, pockmarked roads, squeaky doors, etc. etc.) zakkaihtaiqa stage.on.difficult...
by maıráí
Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:10 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 511909

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

Kūh too kim nyyhūā me sīūkiotoona mah gia soi nyy mi. Gi gje mūīcuusagōprū jwyp pāū zyy sap xjo. Nyy xīī! Ciu wōī giuxuaree nye neek? Ki tua taisianwe kjoi sīāmoa. Nui ce zuk dih mēȳ rykiomuai. Nog xii gye tah pony ko. Tyy nīs tūā kao māpniokiag cey tȳ. Sēȳde tui mii cia tīī gosmōg. Tā kaa xou din ...
by maıráí
Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 511909

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

/m n ŋ/ m n g /p t k/ p t k /s ʃ x/ s x h /ts tʃ/ z c /ʋ ɹ ɰ/ v r w /ⱱ ɾ/ b d It's certainly more concise, but / ʃ / x D: D: D: D: D: D: Also, I'm really curious about your image. What is that? Any can you link what it is or a full copy? It is a card from the Nusantara Tarot. http://www.alchemywebs...
by maıráí
Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:56 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 511909

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

This is more an inventory than anything, of yet another conlang I've evolved from a minimal phonology challenge the ZBB held a year back. Consonants /m n ŋ/ m n g /p t k/ p t k /s ʃ x/ s sh h /ts tʃ/ c ch /ʋ ɹ ɰ/ w r j /ⱱ ɾ/ b d A terminal and initial consonant can form a single long consonant. (kan...
by maıráí
Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:54 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 763997

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Zhammrī pavrāi. with.honey-ADJ girl-P.DIM Drunk girls. Zhammrī pavrāi. with.honey-ADJ girl-P.DIM Drunk girls. Zhammrī pavrāi. with.honey-ADJ girl-P.DIM Drunk girls. Zhammrī pavrāi. with.honey-ADJ girl-P.DIM Drunk girls. Zhammrī pavrāiv hautī qikkaktān ttsuini. with.honey-ADJ girl-P.DIM.-DEF hand.AD...
by maıráí
Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Phrase Building
Replies: 59
Views: 18207

Re: Phrase Building

Sadly, we haven't had time to take in the sights yet, but we'd like to visit the palace. Repetitive semi-formal La-Pu, because long words are fantastic: Dauunuu anqinauan ansaghak anaa sizuiiamaadiamprakamia, taudautuu anjadak pharkaadipautshagabi. dauun-uu an-qin-a-ua-n an-sag-a-k an-a-a siz-uiiam...
by maıráí
Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:48 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 763997

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Psouh wao hyat zièh ûm yau mhì wao ròhm syúh pè syúh ò deîhkyám ê.
one ADJ.(filler) guy there manner ADV.(filler) all ADJ.(filler) people talk do talk (filler) current-moment yeah
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
by maıráí
Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:43 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
Replies: 488
Views: 75020

Re: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.

I completely forgot I was participating in this. :o
I'm trying to look over everything that's happened and catch up, though.

The suggestions for the Eastern Untersprachbund are very similar to a conlang I've been fiddling with, so expect something about that soon.
by maıráí
Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:17 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

La-Pu:

klaassa, kalasa - flake, snowflake, petal, sheet of paper, reciept
klaassai, jiaulla, jiaullai - sliver, thin piece, slice
klaassii - thin
jiaullii - marginal, unimportant

Next: anxiety, worry, concern
by maıráí
Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:10 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Pazmat
Replies: 72
Views: 16213

Re: Pazmat

Not being able to critique, I do want to say that I like this a lot: "And": Anyway, if you want to say "X and Y" in Pazmat, you have not one, but three words to do: "N" (it's just a syllabic /n/) is the most common. It has no soecial connontation. It just means "X and Y". "R" also means "and", but i...
by maıráí
Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:08 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

Lanr: koiih bóúk khat - "a strike to the back of the mind"; for very strong realizations yam neihp vý, yam yeuhr vý, yam vý - "really seeing the facts", "finally seeing the facts", "seeing the facts" vú yam, leh koiih bóúk khat -"see fact", "feel realization" - to realize Next: to add to, to increas...
by maıráí
Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:06 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

La-Pu

gazdviva, gazdvivaia - misandry (from gazda formal version of man viva, vivaia hate)
gazdvivai/gazdvivau, gazdvivaiaqai/gazdvivaiaqau - misandrist
gazdak vivrqii, gazdviviqii misandrist (adj.)


Next: to dot, to check, to mark, to make a mark
by maıráí
Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:11 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Invent an Idiom
Replies: 362
Views: 80805

Re: Invent an Idiom

Next: "to take pains to make sure someone doesn't like you, specifically because having that person like you would make you feel like you're not a good person" La-Pu: ustan khiikar siaji to wear a razor collar This implies that it hurts the person. For instance, the performer avoiding the homophobi...
by maıráí
Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:33 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 511909

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

Some distant sister to La-Pu: <m n~l> m n <p b t~d k g q~ʔ> p b t k g h <s ʃ> s sh <ts tʃ dʒ> c ch j <ʋ~ɹ ɹ~j> w y a i u au ai aa ii uu <ɑ i ɯ ɤ ɑi ɑ: i: ɯ:>word-finally <a~æ ɪ ʊˑ~ɘ ɛ~æ a: ɪ: ʊ~ʊ:> elsewhere (C)(y,w)V(V)(p,s,n) (Syllable constraints not entirely decided yet.) Terminal P doubles the ...
by maıráí
Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:49 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Culture test (you might be a X if...)
Replies: 20
Views: 6765

Re: Culture test (you might be a X if...)

You might be Lamaunan if: - you would never imagine having something lime flavored with something lemon as well, and vice versa. - you feel inexplicably smug when you see a 20__ date, instead of a native 4K__ date. - you learned a handful of English before giving up and learning the phone number of ...
by maıráí
Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:33 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Invent an Idiom
Replies: 362
Views: 80805

Re: Invent an Idiom

Lamaunan Putšgala

ramsar bru ħitsa tsiini; ramsar iu X haudi
to sprinkle wine onto a fire, to throw wine at someone

Next: to act as if one is fine when one is in fact ill or hurt
by maıráí
Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:05 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

Lamaunan Putšgala: akasaka, akska - circle akskii - round, circular kaatsa - line akskii kaatsa, akskaatsa - curve akskaatsaia - curve (mathematical) birdrausta - torus birdraustan akskaatsaia, tsiiriiamaia - elliptic curve :? My setting would have these words, but I' m not so familiar with them. N...
by maıráí
Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:33 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The dream thread
Replies: 1807
Views: 321669

Re: The dream thread

Had a dream about a forum town. People sat on their porches just silently staring at each other under a hot sun. Occasionally, a family would huddle together, an elder would right something down, and send their kid to go post the note on this huge wall on one side of town. The other families would s...
by maıráí
Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:43 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

Saerienne: croister o'lle sonne [klauista al: sa:n:] to amplify (sound), to turn up (volume); lit. to grow the sound enrarer o'lle sonne [anɾaɾa al: sa:n:] to turn down, make quiet Croistez o'lle sonne le stéréo . Turn up the stereo. Ixus enrarez o'lle sonne la musique o tu. Please turn down your mu...
by maıráí
Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:11 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 808786

Re: Lexicon Building

Saerienne: la débandisme [la daipːantːisːm], le falot [lu psalaː] crime, felony la crime [la klim] crime, offence, misdemeanor débandiser, faloter [daipːantːisaː, psalaːta] fer o'lle débandisme, fer o'l falot [psa alː daipːantːisːm, psa al psalaː] fer o'lle crime [psa alː klim] commit a crime, commi...
by maıráí
Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:46 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 763997

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Maus les oils o se briller comme l'ac o la soleille.
[maːs ɾaiː aːil so su pliːa kaːmː la ko la saːlailː]
But his eyes shine like the Sun.