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English also has no direct translation of German "nervig" or "genervt". If a thing is nervig, it is steppping on your nerves — genervt is the state you are in then.

Diogenes wrote:"eigentlich". I surely miss "eigentlich". LEO has lots of translations, which means that none of them actually hits the mark.

Most definitely, and all the other Abtönungspartikel, such as "halt" and "ja" etc. as well. I also miss "doch".

BTW, eigentlich literally translates as 'ownly'

It is still considered informal, like ihr/euch in German; Explain please. What is informal about "ihr" and "euch"? The present perfect? Continental European languages (German, French, Italian) have gone and tossed their real past tenses and now use present perfect instead. Rather annoying, if you a...

vegfarandi wrote:I don't quite understand what is being asked about here...

Your con/natlang's kinterms most obviously . Like, what's the word for dad, mom, brother, uncle, aunt etc. Plus some extra information about how other langs handle this.

Tom: I didn't read all rest of the original post, that's true. Sorry.

Alas, this is not Ayeri's strong suite. I really have to have a look at this again I guess. I'll give you the German words instead and the few Ayeri ones I have. --- genetic kin --- Father Vater / badan Mother Mutter / mahava Brother Bruder / netu Sister Schwester / kina Son Sohn / yan (same as "boy...

I don't know whether I have already given you these links: http://beckerscarsten.de/downloads/sprache/thepayne_topicworthiness.pdf http://beckerscarsten.de/downloads/sprache/basic_and_additional_vocabulary.txt http://beckerscarsten.de/downloads/sprache/common_placename_parts.txt I haven't had the ti...

The encoding of this page is seriously fucked up. I can see Georgian, I can see Cyrillic, I can see IPA, but not á, é, í, ó, ú, ç, å, ä, ö, ü and ß for some reason. Back on topic: The German word Herku nftsw örterbuch is quite nifty as well (5 consonants in a row). So is Swedish Er nstkts (6 consona...

If I had only time to check out half of those ... Sounds all pretty interesting, Wyc!

http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemid=GA00001 The German Dictionary of the brothers Grimm, now digitalized -- in German, though http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/english/sanskrit/sanscritoargentingles.html Sanskrit grammar http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/ge...

Don't forget the page of the Linguistics dept. of the University of Victoria: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/h ... nloads.htm

How do you make that infernal thing work on Windows ? That's something I hate about a lot of third party programs. They demand a mess of baffling technical knowledge or understanding that I generally have no use for, leaving me persistently either frustrated, confused, or worried that even if I mak...

Sheesh, I think I'm the only person under the age of twenty five left in the world whose first instinct when he wants a piece of software is to save up and actually pay for it. I agree with Nuntar: You aren't the only one. I'm glad when I can get burned a piece of really fucking expensive software ...

What he said

It's a great difference to the original picture. Very nice.

/me wishes he could draw

Just for what it's worth ... As for trigger systems, I have heard that some see the system as working with modes rather than cases, but I guess you know that. I haven't completely understood yet why, though.

Aszev wrote:Excellent!

What he said.
Elinam manaraiy?ng.

My name cannot be translated into Verdurian as it seems. I can't find Christian (from which Carsten is derived) on the names page of the Verdurian grammar - that's the only place I've looked, though. Also, there's no glosse meaning wolf, which would be part of my patronymic.

That's very nice work, Zomp!

What the hell are you talking about? Don't you keep the zompist.com change log open all the time and refresh every 2 minutes?????? No; I don't, actually. :wink: /me seconds that :P Maybe Zomp should set up an RSS thingy so that you addicts immediately know that there's been a change? ;) Carsten: Ma...

What the hell are you talking about?

German, lacking the continuous aspect as tenses, has two participles: Participle 1: gehend, stehend, schreibend, etc. Derived from the present tense (present participle) Expresses that someone is about to do something, similar to English -ing, though actually only used in writing, and even there it ...

Just wanted to say this - as the native speaker I am ... (I'm not going to get notified): ex. I would often say things akin to, "Ich du liebst.," instead of "Ich liebst du." Ack! That's wrong wrong wrong! It's "Ich liebe dich." - see, "du" is an accusative object here, and the accusative equivalent ...