zompist bboard

I always end up pronouncing my Spanish /v/ as /w/, thanks to 7 years of Latin. I also mix vocabulary, like puer rather than chico, and I'm always tempted to add a /t/ to the third person singular form of verbs. And I'm not even proficient, either....

Proto-Sèferi for the Etheria project is heavily influenced by Tagalog, but I've been thinking about adding Germanic features as well.

Theta wrote:Squalipsh: <yosătʼ> [josətʼ] > Cétes: gioste [ɟ͡ʝostʰa]

Cétes: gioste [ɟ͡ʝostʰa] > Proto-Sèferi: ghosota [ʲɣɔsɔtɑ]

This is becoming addictive...
Also, I feel like PS's CV structure turns every word into a Gairaigo-like husk.

MisterBernie wrote:Proto-Sayetic [ɕɑʊŋ] > Coastal Dialect [sjoŋ] > Peninsular Dialect [sɪjɔ̃ɡ]

Peninsular Dialect: [sɪjɔ̃ɡ] > Proto-Sèferi: [ˈsi.jɔ.ŋɔ]

We can keep going?

Caleone wrote:Proto-Sayetic[sʊt͡suːɑcɑcuɑ] > Coastal Dialect [sut͡suːɤkjɤkjuɤ]

Coastal Dialect: [sut͡suːɤkjɤkjuɤ] > Proto-Sèferi: [su.ʧu.u.ɘ.ki.jɘ.ki.ju.ɘ]

Kinál: [t͡sɨjt͡sʼɬasaɔ̯sʷ] > Proto-Sèferi: [ʧɨʧɨlɑsɑɔsu]

Not really magic, but sci-fi equivalent systems popped into my head. a) Biological modifications: The obvious solution. "Implants" can interface directly with the bodily systems. Some can be triggered by thought, since they attach to the nervous system, and these are usually the showier kind: teleki...

I toyed with three different systems of magic: 1) Arcane Theory - the pseudoscientific one. Arcane theory posits that two elementary substances comprise the known universe: arcana (energy) and neutra (matter - not related to RL neutrons). Arcana and neutra aren't merely energy and mass; they are the...

I'm pretty sure most gothic fonts cross X, but not all cross x.

I believe it's from H. P. Lovecraft, acclaimed author of light-hearted children's novels.

Peto, petere to seek...
Or to attack, although that seems a bit aggressive for a mood.

Interesting and free Google book: http://tinyurl.com/3gz6wwc

tsi yé àip (star-silk, lit. silk PARTITIVE star)

Next word - large flightless bird (Ratite)

frog > slimy, unpleasant person > con artist > creepy person > bogeyman > imaginary > ridiculous > superstition > witch > toad > frog

Next word: complex (as a noun or adjective)

purple > grape > wine > drunkenness > vomit > orange

Next word: horse-shoe

At one point, I began to sketch a Romancified Greek, that exhibited changes evocative of those displayed by the Romance languages, but I got very caught up in the pronunciation shift of the alphabet to focus on grammatical modification. The problem was in learning the darn thing, and I never got aro...

It makes sense to have such a word, though, since herding the animals has been their lifestyle for hundreds of years.

The American system uses a million = 1,000,000
And the French system uses a milliard = 1,000,000.
There's actually a very interesting wikipedia article on the phenomenon.

No conlang yet, but it would be locust crop , since the farmers would offer one harvest per year to the locust spirit/deity to keep his minions away from their fields. In modern times, used sarcastically to mean a crude or futile bribe. Next: affirmative action (of any sort, not necessarily ethnic)

Qwynegold wrote:You should have left it in the other thread.

The thread is called "Words you love because of their sounds", not "Words whose sounds are mellifluous and pleasing to hear". The two are not necessarily equivalent.

Speaking of tone, it would be possible for a romlang descended from Classical Latin to develop a pitch accent, which could turn into tone. Ancient Greek had a pitch accent, and conquered Greece conquered Rome; educated Romans used Greek as much as Latin, many times borrowing words from the former in...

I don't think it has an elegant sound, certainly, but it's definitely amusing to say.

Ru ngario-ma t'aro'z pl. dog-patient I'walk'them Interestingly, Po Zhifmök does something similar, except it uses a symmetrical stop-based pronoun set: stops are singular, fricatives are trial, and voicing each yields the dual and plural, respectively. Velars indicate 1st person, labials indicate s...

Grra!
Yes!

It's only a matter of time before they conquer the planet.

More words I like:
German:
Flug
aufgelassen

Latin:
quamquam
quassâre
Basically every q word

Spanish:
cicatriz (especially with a θ)
murciélago
chocar
ganga
avestruz

English:
remora
kiwi
weir
shuffle and its rhymes
hurdy-gurdy

This time, I know I'm in the right thread.