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I think I might have what's on that blog (can't see the Youtube, not on broadband). If I say "I think that", then the "k" and "t" come out similar, though slightly different. I know I have a glottal stop, my girlfriend often makes fun of me when I say "butter" in a colloquial way. Fascinating stuff!

What are the effects of the English language on Maori?

And the effects of Maori on the English spoken in NZ?

Where I am in Spain chaqueta is more usual.

Interesting all the lingual connections with over all and overall. Too many to be a coincidence, surely.

Ejh vawes baraw angod, ejh vawes ajhey ang, ejh vawes ritew angod ing vawey ang thôopa gof. It's not original but I had to do it... Can you guess what it is? [/size]One Ring I agree with Grunnen. I too agree! It made me come up with a few new words and adapt a few invented ones to the translations....

It's not original but I had to do it...

Ejh vawes baraw angod, ejh vawes ajhey ang, ejh vawes ritew angod ing vawey ang thôopa gof.

Can you guess what it is?

@Darkgamma: maybe if I was Ali G

I like terei, tena and tera.

I was even thinking of the "there, out of sight". And maybe "there, beyond access". I don't know what sort of culture would justify their use, but it's interesting to brainstorm

I'd be tempted to add more just to experiment. If I find I have a surplus of pronouns it's easy to get rid of them.

So here's some work I've done on non-personal pronouns: Query: which, ki ; who, jhem ; what, top ; where, ij ; when, won ; how, pa ; why, ejh . This/that/these/those(adj/thing): this, bik ; that, bak ; these, big ; those, bag . Person: this person, jhim ; that person, sham ; these people, jim ; thos...

Just like it would be painstaking work for us to try and figure out what you mean with the letters you posted. More realistically anyone who speaks English could, with the use of the guide to pronunciation linked to, work it all out in about ten seconds, with perhaps a little bit of uncertainty abo...

:o ¡Qué bronca! Jejeje I'm finding out just how varied languages really are, that some lack one thing, and others lack something else, yet they all have their own way of making sense. I'm sure that if the word forms lack disinction between subject and object then there are other ways of doing it. Th...

Dog bit me: Onom sinirk. (lit. it bit me, since I have no word for dog yet) I bit dog: Omon sinirk Subject and object are combined in a certain order - SO - before the verb. With nouns as objects its SVO: Om sinirk oranij (I bit an orange). "It bites" is "on sinirt". "the dog is bitten" might be "si...

No, all I have is individual words, mainly verbs. I have enough for small sentences but not texts. Om alahirtel alahith, domon dekiwt. Om alahirt ingish, fiesipanis. I don't speak alahithian, I am creating it. I speak English, [and] little Spanish. Sifish sifurt. Dafak dafort, Udak udort. Water flow...

Ah yes, thanks. The difference in pronouns I get (exept the dative, which is a new one to me). It's when it gets to nouns. I look at the different noun cases in Latin and my brow wrinkles. I look at the possibilities in Finnish and my eyes cross. :mrgreen: For the moment all my possesive pronouns st...

Just like it would be painstaking work for us to try and figure out what you mean with the letters you posted. If you want people to comment on your conlang, on its content, you'll really have to present it in a way that people can just read it and understand. But you'd only have to do this figurin...

This is on my to do list!

I would love to use IPA or X-SAMPA, I really would. But I'd have to figure them out first, which I will, one day... My dialect isn't too different from most other English dialects. It's somewhere between cockney and the Queen's English, so the examples above may not be too hard to figure out. Somewh...

As I've mentioned in another thread I am working on a language I have called Alahithian (alahitiano in Spanish, Alahitien in French, Alaiteach in Scots Gaelic (???), Alahithisch in Dutch, Alahitisch in German and alahith in Alahithian (any more suggestions welcome, even from other conlangs)). So her...

My girlfriend has given me elocution sessions with the French ou. Sometimes I get it right and sometimes not. And if I'm not careful then I exagerate the "Frenchness" of my accent and that's when cou become cul. It's practice. I think also that because I hear it a lot it'll naturally get picked up. ...

My sister had trouble when she was in France pronouncing /u/. Nowadays she's all but given up on French, though, and prefers Italian. She has an Italian boyfriend. I have this problem. It means cou can sound like cul , which is a pain in the... Then there's merci beau cul ... My girlfriend's French...