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Bayoya na 2003 masahatay.
spring-LOC GEN 2003 since
Since the spring of 2003.

Izambri wrote:The first Hellesan papers are lost now. I begun the conlang in 1992.

Wow! Hats off to you!

Le su-sungyang dabas menanye bisuayyena yam Ayeri. Kuranreng avantisana 14 Desember 2003.
PT.INAN again~find-1SG.A today first-PL.T idea-PL-GEN DAT Ayeri. Date-A.INAN file-GEN 14 December 2003
Today I found the first ideas for Ayeri again. The file is dated Dec 14, 2003.

I'd expect a "Gregory Anderson" to at least write in idiomatic English, though.

Pretty banknote. The only thing that grates is the blue writing at the bottom on the front side. It doesn't contrast well with the background.

Nortaneous wrote:German with a Finnic substrate, or?

The only words I can't make out are "iavezen" (iavezen certainly corresponds to wes-, one of the stems in sein 'be') and "maashmo" (maashmo ~ manchmal). Other than that it's all German/W-Germanic words indeed.

http://i.imgur.com/XzOS0xP.png Talaymanreng nahampanas vana. Manayang-nama. analysis-A.INAN task-P 2.GEN. Invent-1SG.A=just. Analysis is your task. I'm just inventing. Thanks, though :) convert -density 96 -trim in.pdf out.png makes the characters look so uglily irregular :| I seriously should lear...

Le saragoyreng tarela yaman siyam ang eryava telbānyeley kāryo kong narānjya …
PT explain-NEG-3SG.INAN still reason.T REL-(P)-DAT AT use-2SG.T letter-PL-P.INAN big inside word-PL-LOC.
That still doesn't explain why you use capital letters inside of words …

<pharazon> omg there's a tiny spider on my arm it's so cute <pthagnar> kill it <pthagnar> (your arm) <pharazon> no!! <pharazon> no <pthagnar> so the spider can eat it <pharazon> it's too small and my arm is too big <pharazon> gluttony is a sin A certain penchant for absurdity is probably the best p...

Aj'm syrprajzd hał łel źis łerks. Iksept źat Inglisz – ynlajk Połlisz – dyzn't hew [w] from /ɫ/.

^ Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww In the same vein (from Wikipedia):



Also, more on topic:

ST… + OTTER + …ONE
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finlay wrote:If you're gonna use long s, you don't use it at the end of the word or in a double letter!

Tell that to late 13th century German scribes.

Nort, you may wanna look into Thaana …

kanejam wrote:Tosk Albanian as Greek

Has in fact been done:

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language#Script]Albanian language[/url] article on Wikipedia wrote:Originally, the Tosk dialect was written in the Greek alphabet

Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_o ... characters

Just to clarify Drydic's objection to a supposed overuse of slashes for the casual passer-by: Of course, since there are no MHG speakers anymore and we only have written sources with wild orthographic differences (which nonetheless show some regional consistency and allow to make educated guesses al...

OK, since the different e-sounds seem somewhat complicated in MHG, here's a summary of what Paul et al.'s Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik (25th ed. 2007) says on a normalized version of MHG phonology (of course, individual dialects may differ and as usual, historical sources confront us with a great va...

Nortaneous wrote:уай нат джыст суич ту сирилик? итс гат мор ваулз, фор уын, анд иф пийпл ар гоинг ту хаф ту лрн е нуу систм енийуей...

But that would turn us all into filthy pinko commies!~

As far as I can remember from an introductory class on German linguistics I took a couple of years ago, there are regions where a difference between /eː/ and /ɛː/ is only made for minimal pairs, but /eː/ is preferred otherwise. (I think I may actually do that?) I'm not sure if there's a Wenker map f...

Thanks, finally someone who explains to me how sound change works Let's stop this mess of changing pronunciation then, before laziness makes us degenerate fully into just grunting like animals. Instead, let's keep pronouncing things properly, i.e. the way they're spelled.

awer wrote:why don't people just learn not to be lazy and pronounce words as they're written instead? you'd prolly sound like you're from the middle ages.

Because a) it's nothing to do with lazyness and b) this is not how it works.

Generalizing about "sighted" people is just as stupid as generalizing about the blind. Stupider, even, given that we make up a much larger sector of the population and have correspondingly more diversity. Not all "sighted" people's brains function the same way and thinking they do is racist Says th...

Is what is being referred to here, and I suppose I should never mention her again, since No Girlfriends in the Clubhouse etc. etc. If I do, you're free to slap me around a bit with a large trout. That rule never passed, actually :) /me uncharacteristically but gleefully talks about girls all over t...

[02.09.2013 22:12:35] <guitarplayer> someone messaged me here [02.09.2013 22:12:40] <guitarplayer> but i was talking with my gf [02.09.2013 22:12:45] <guitarplayer> (for the past 4 hours) [02.09.2013 22:12:50] <guitarplayer> ((because.)) [02.09.2013 22:13:06] <Legion> guitarplayer that's not how yo...

Sorry I didn't pay attention to the grouping when I looked over this list the other day, too. I just paid attention to spelling and even then seem to have missed some things. :O

http://i.imgur.com/OJ3ZFzV.png Sa eryyo narānang Keymani iray terpeng narān kamo sanoyam ( zunge ), nāroy narānang Keynami takanena ( Sprache ’narān’ – Zunge ‘lā’). PT use-3SG.N language-A German high middle word.T same both-DAT ( zunge ), but.not language-A German modern ( Sprache ‘speech’ – Zunge...