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- Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:33 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 311322
Re: The dream thread
We were recently informed (IRL) that we're getting an extra 1 hour of colloquial Jordanian Arabic instruction per week from a PhD student who's himself from Amman (so should be pretty good and indepth). Obviously this Good News influenced my consciousness so much that I dreamt about our class discus...
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 783751
Re: Lexicon Building
Trurian: tächnepörtö (literally 'sibling-shame')Wattmann wrote: Next word: incestuous brother-sister relationship
Next: enthusiast (for), specialist (in), knowledgeable (about a subject or field of study)
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:53 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 783751
Re: Lexicon Building
Trurian: sibeyö 'embroidery' (lit. "beautiful tying-together") > sibeyeon 'to embroider'sano wrote: next: to embroider; embroidery
Next: to cut down, chop down (a tree), to chop (wood)
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you playing?
- Replies: 309
- Views: 93189
Re: What are you playing?
... that was my holiday crackpipe for the last couple of weeks. 120 hours or so, with 47/50 Steam Achievements!!! Should have been 48/50, but the game doesn't seem to remember your daedric artefact count correctlyRisla wrote:I seem to have acquired Skyrim.
- Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
- Replies: 391
- Views: 66098
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Arabic
Amharic
Portuguese
Bad:
English
French
Greek
Why all the hate for Arabic, by the way? I think it's a very beautiful language I love the 'pharyngealized' (or whatever) sounds, as well as qaaf /q/ (properly pronounced, of course).
Arabic
Amharic
Portuguese
Bad:
English
French
Greek
Why all the hate for Arabic, by the way? I think it's a very beautiful language I love the 'pharyngealized' (or whatever) sounds, as well as qaaf /q/ (properly pronounced, of course).
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:33 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
- Replies: 77
- Views: 30953
Re: Conlingual Telephone VI
What, there was lava in the original?
I was honestly convinced it was a creation myth involving some being called Pyan, but the moon-and-sun relationship was not entirely clear to me, so I made the best of it. Good to see that at least my own translation was more or less transparent...?
I was honestly convinced it was a creation myth involving some being called Pyan, but the moon-and-sun relationship was not entirely clear to me, so I made the best of it. Good to see that at least my own translation was more or less transparent...?
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:26 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Conjugating conjunctions?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3815
Re: Conjugating conjunctions?
I also believe Arabic does something similar Well, some conjunctions (such as inna ) just often add the subject of a following verb as a clitic in the form of an 'object pronoun', but I'm not sure whether that properly counts as 'inflecting the conjunction' (is adding the object pronoun to a prepos...
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:32 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Verbs (and verbal phrases) in Rawàng Ata
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6495
Re: Verbs (and verbal phrases) in Rawàng Ata
Things I like especially: 1) the first-person suffixes, especially the one "taught to foreigners" :) 2) terrestrial vs. maritime marking (and implications of ostensibly 'incorrect' marking!) 3) motifs Which verbs are more likely to take more modifiers in serial verb constructions? Do the implied mea...
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Divine Will - The Opening (Callambut)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4497
Re: The Divine Will - The Opening (Callambut)
I dont know if its just me or what but that rethoric style feels awefully abrahamic. Well, it is a monotheist religion, so in translating it I reckon the feel of it should be taken into account as well... I'll most likely do a couple of essays on the early history and basic precepts of Olerism in t...
- Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:32 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Divine Will - The Opening (Callambut)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4497
Re: The Divine Will - The Opening (Callambut)
Well, I'm flattered. Thanks!Mr. Z wrote:Oh, so High Eolic is your conlang? I remember it. It was one of the first conlangs I read about.
- Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:37 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Divine Will - The Opening (Callambut)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4497
The Divine Will - The Opening (Callambut)
Here's something I've been working on for the past couple of days. It's the introduction to the founding text of Calutist Olerism, the principal religion of the Eolians (who speak High Eolic). The PDF including all of this info is accessible here . This will also all find its way onto my blog after ...
- Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:25 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
- Replies: 77
- Views: 30953
Re: Conlingual Telephone VI
Done and relayed. Considerable mangling involved, but that's probably the point.
- Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:14 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
- Replies: 77
- Views: 30953
Re: Conlingual Telephone VI
Looks tasty... I'll try speeding up the link and do it tomorrow, or Sunday at the latest.
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:46 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The 2011 ZBB Awards: Discussion and Nominations
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10742
Re: The 2011 ZBB Awards: Discussion and Nominations
http://jonafras.conlang.org/?tag=grammar Bits and pieces of stuff I did this year. No really coherent project completed - I'm planning to release the new Trurian grammar in February (the "updated" High Eolic grammar version doesn't really count because it was just an update of something that was vi...
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 764595
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)
Some other nice-ish photos of myself with sunglasses, just because I'm bored.
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 351988
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
Bamako Rail Band: Duga
Somewhat trance-inducing. (And no, I don't speak Bambara, so I have no idea what the lyrics are actually saying)
Somewhat trance-inducing. (And no, I don't speak Bambara, so I have no idea what the lyrics are actually saying)
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:19 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
- Replies: 77
- Views: 30953
Re: Conlingual Telephone VI
Oh my. Did I get our team stuck? Sorry... I'm gonna get it done on time. I think there aren't as many mistakes as there were last time. I intend to translate the text into English tonight and into my conlang tomorrow. Well it's still on schedule, it's just that the other guys are rather... eager. :P
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 764595
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)
Possible... Correlations with other features of my acquaintances pending?MisterBernie wrote:Maybe he knows an unusually large number of human tetrachromats
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:54 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 764595
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)
The ZBB has spoken. Maybe it's just women that make the 'red-like' judgment... (Although I've actually heard it being uttered by men to. Very strange.)Theta wrote:Cathbad's hair looks quite brown, to me.
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 764595
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)
The most recent photo of me without a hat/cap: (from beginning of September I think, on a nice and foggy Slovene mountain)
... is my hair really reddish?
... is my hair really reddish?
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 783751
Re: Lexicon Building
High Eolic: lartámas "parade, procession", or lartámasa-harangec "holiday parade" (lit. "parade for festival/holiday")Theta wrote: Next word: parade, festival
Next: cooperative, obliging
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:26 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 764595
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (camel toes.)
I have very dark brown eyes that almost look black from a distance, and light brown hair that everyone tells me looks reddish, although I've never actually managed to see that personally. :? (I've also been told it's slightly 'blonde', but that's linked to other issues probably as well. I don't know...
- Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 783751
Re: Lexicon Building
High Eolic: lunder, literally "(tree) root", but can also mean "support", and thus, by extension, "scaffold".Izambri wrote: Next word: scaffold
Next: furrow (as in made by a plow)
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Rain (n) Rain (vb) ~ Different Languages...?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 11503
Re: Rain (n) Rain (vb) ~ Different Languages...?
Well and whatnot. If you associate Lebanon with the desert , you wouldn't think they'd call rain a shitty thing... Indeed. This was from the same stock where someone thought the al-Aqsa mosque was in India apparently. (There is a mosque called that in Pakistan, but that's not really the point...)
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 783751
Re: Lexicon Building
High Eolic: ngungúra-civándas (literally "egg-pipes")Soap wrote:Fallopian tubes
Next: drought