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(why are <why> and <I> spelled with |ai| while <like> is spelled with |í|?) I suppose that Tropylium⁺s dialect, like mine, exhibits Canadian raising, so <why> would be [waɪ] whereas <like> is realised as [lʌɪk]. Which, of course, is only evidence of one of the other big problems in spelling reforms...

I think it would be grammatically correct to say My sister and I's car , since -'s is only a clitic, and and modifies the whole phrase. (Compare Adam and Jamie's car ). Except that the "correct" rule for pronoun agreement in conjunctions is whatever case the phrase is in. What is the appropriate ca...

Done and sent. I must say that the text had several moments of lolwut. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Dautian very heavily tends to emphaize manner over path, the expression of the latter being left to prepositions. This is certainly true for verbs of motion: Dut mee datee dait zie tie. [ˈdʌtsmɛ ˈdatsɛ ˈdəɪtsɪtɪ] ø-dut mee da-tee dait zie tie DET -house in that-to run COP .1 from I ran into the hous...

linguoboy wrote:Are you sure the spelling wasn't (or wasn't intended to be) "Mekhiko"?

Well, no clue about what it was intended to be, but I'm sure that it was printed as "Mekkiko". I remember rechecking it, cause I was quite taken aback.

I read a book recently in which the spelling Mekkiko was used to show that an English speaker was pronouncing "Mexico" as it is in Spanish, i.e. [ˈmexiko]. I found this very odd, as I would have expected Mehiko or something like that, but as I started pronouncing it I realized that in fast speech, b...

Yeah, this was also mentioned in my introductory linguistics class, and I was dubious too. To me it's questionable without context, but certainly acceptable in certain uses. Donations to charities, as mentioned above, is one of them. However, I do hear a lot of argument-dropping from the Orthodox Je...

Intonation definitely makes the difference. Like, treskro, I find that 'no' can act as a response with both meanings; a rising tone means that the speaker is going to continue and likely contradict the premise of the statement/question. You didn't see her today? No. (falling tone) = 'No, I did not.'...

Mecislau has hit the nail on this one, I think. In all these examples, the modifier applies not to the subject in general, as it does when preceding its head noun in attributive use, but only with respect to the action being undertaken, hence a sense of non-permance. It seems reasonable then to say ...

bulbaquil wrote:Next word: procrastinate

DAUTIAN
takiemue [takɪmʊ] n procrastinate; delay doing (LIT continue over, FROM takie + mue)

Next word: prescience

Emma wrote:Oh! This is the first time I haven't just just missed this.

Me too. I'd like to join in this time, and I can do, in decreasing order of competence:

Edit: I'm going to be a bit bolder than I originally was.
FROM English, Any Western Romance Language (i.e. not Romanian)
TO English, French

sano wrote:Next word: comment

DAUTIAN
ere · nv think, ponder
erie · n [GEN] thought, thinking · [FIELD] philosophy
more · n [GEN] piece, morsel, bit · [FOOD] bite
->
erie dee more · n comment, thought, opinion (LIT bit of thinking)

Next Word: ubiquitous

DAUTIAN
more [mʊrə] n. bite; bit, small amount; [emotion] feeling, idea, intuition
stort [stwr̩t] n. sleep; rest
stort mee more · nap (LIT sleep bite)

Next word: committee

CONLANGS AND CONWORLDS Best conlang • Cathbad for High Eolic Best phonology • Egein for Siwa Best Roman/Romanised orthography • Neek for the craziness that is Rahfatge Best conscript • Risla for South Eresian Best morphology Best syntax • Curlyjimsam for his dedicated effort in Viksen Best diachron...

moerie n. imagination ( FROM mue/moe above, over + erie thought) :> stort mee ~ , dream ( LIT sleep imagination) :> tart mee ~ , daydream ( LIT working imagination) stortrie n. [INF] dream ( CONTR stort mee moerie ) tartrie n. [INF] daydream ( CONTR tart mee moerie ) Next word: underestimate

Dautian: ostie tee mendietie ['ʊstjɪ ʦɛ 'mɛnzɪʦɪ] n. machine intended to break through walls and other heavy fortifications -> siege engine, siege machine, etc. LIT ost-ie | tee | men-die-tie defence-thing | to | give-thing-thing giver to fortresses (refers to the act of giving immense forces to for...