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by Jonlang
Fri Sep 02, 2016 2:06 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

din wrote:nextː shard
Well seeing as a shard is just a piece of glass:

Quebric: quet /kwɛt/ piece, shard (masculine noun).

Next word: lay, narrative poem, ballad
by Jonlang
Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:56 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

The vowel sound between /g/ and /r/ doesn't really seem to matter but moving from /g/ to /r/ without a vowel seems pretty impossible. It's perfectly possible. Syllabic rhotics are a thing--just ask the Czechs. I don't doubt it, but not with a Welsh accent. Welshies stretch out vowels pretty much ev...
by Jonlang
Thu Sep 01, 2016 7:48 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

Pedant wrote:Next: embarrassing incident you try to get everyone else to ignore
Quebric isn't quite that specific, but:

Quebric: tígynolh gwedyr /tigənɒɬ gwɛdər/ embarrassing incident
- tígynolh event, happening, incident (masculine noun)
- gwedyr to embarrass (verbal-noun)

Next word: to avoid
by Jonlang
Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:51 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

Going off Wiki, it's basically something like ['ɬɔɨ̯.gɨr~'ɬɔɨ̯.gr̩]. I think it would be more like: ['ɬɔɨ̯.gər] in the North, and ['ɬɔi̯.gər] in the South. Although there are more than two dialects, apparently five discernible ones. The vowel sound between /g/ and /r/ doesn't really seem to matter ...
by Jonlang
Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:02 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

WeepingElf wrote:Next word: grindstone
Quebric: bráwanedvór /brɑ.wa.ˈnεd.vɔr/ grindstone
- bráwaned /brɑ.ˈwa.nεd/ to grind
- mór /mɔr/ stone

Next word: Curiosity.
by Jonlang
Sun Aug 28, 2016 12:26 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

Arzena wrote:Next word: instant (moment of time)
Quebric: egrad /εgrad/ second (unit of time), instant, moment

Next word: Butterfly. I just did this one for Quebric: mallom alef /malːɒm alεv/ flying flower.
by Jonlang
Fri Aug 19, 2016 3:39 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

The creator of the Welsh Duolingo course said: Except that Welsh doesn't have possessive pronouns that meet this definition. Eg to say This car is mine , we have to use an emphatic sentence ' Fi sy biau'r bêl hon ' = It's me who owns this ball . So it makes more sense to refer to 'fy.....i' as a pos...
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:00 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Gender agreement in English
Replies: 28
Views: 7175

Re: Gender agreement in English

Google finds 11.6 million instances of "pretty woman", just 602,000 of "handsome man". It's about that imbalanced with most adjectives I could think of that describe appearance. Yeah but how many of those results are for the movie? Terms like "pretty girl" or "pretty lady" could well have fewer mat...
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

Does anyone know why Gareth King refers to fy , dy , eich , ein , ei and eu as possessive adjectives instead of possessive pronouns? I mean they correspond to the English pronouns my , your , their , our , his and her :? What makes you say those are "pronouns" rather than "adjectives"? Probably bec...
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:31 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

Does anyone know why Gareth King refers to fy, dy, eich, ein, ei and eu as possessive adjectives instead of possessive pronouns? I mean they correspond to the English pronouns my, your, their, our, his and her :?
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:23 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Gender agreement in English
Replies: 28
Views: 7175

Re: Gender agreement in English

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be about actual gender agreement in English, i.e. the near-obsolete use of blond for men and blonde for women. Gender-dependent connotations of adjectives are a different phenomenon from "agreement" as that word is used in linguistics. ...
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:43 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Gender agreement in English
Replies: 28
Views: 7175

Gender agreement in English

I got thinking about how modern English, especially the simple every day spoken British English, uses certain words for referring to males and females. The words which got me thinking are handsome and pretty . They are used nowadays to mean the same thing, but it's always "a handsome man" or "a pret...
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:53 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

Soap wrote:next: to splash, make waves
I don't really see 'splash' and 'make waves' as being the same, so:

Quebric: aussquenef (to splash). /aʊ̯sː.ˈkwε.nεv/
- aussquen (splash) masculine noun.
- squenef (to jump)
- aus (water) feminine noun.
- squen (jump) masculine noun

Next: sea monster
by Jonlang
Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:42 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: An Important Linguistic Development
Replies: 12
Views: 3294

Re: An Important Linguistic Development

Salmoneus wrote:'SpecSavers', a seller of cheap spectacles.
Yeah, £500 is cheap...
by Jonlang
Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

din wrote:next: flag
Quebric: merqui flag, banner (masculine noun).
- meirqui (plural, flags, banners)

Next: to put on clothes, to dress oneself.
by Jonlang
Wed Aug 10, 2016 12:25 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784379

Re: Lexicon Building

masako wrote:to go against; to be contrary to; perverse; rebellious
Quebric: andebrydhië to rebel, to go against
- andeb against
- rhydhië to make war

Also, andebrydhiair a rebel; andebrydhiód a rebellion.

Next word: to invent
by Jonlang
Sun Jul 31, 2016 1:31 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Share your Magic System
Replies: 35
Views: 10691

Re: Share your Magic System

Mr Edgar "Artifexian" Grunewald is actually in the process of building an interesting "magic" system. I think the only documentation of it is within the Artifexian podcasts, rather than written form. It's worth checking out. Artifexian is awesome. Do you watch Xidnaf? I've seen a few of his videos ...
by Jonlang
Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:38 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Share your Magic System
Replies: 35
Views: 10691

Re: Share your Magic System

Mr Edgar "Artifexian" Grunewald is actually in the process of building an interesting "magic" system. I think the only documentation of it is within the Artifexian podcasts, rather than written form. It's worth checking out.
by Jonlang
Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:27 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Things you've slipped into a conlang?
Replies: 4
Views: 2058

Things you've slipped into a conlang?

This could be interesting. Has anyone here ever slipped in little references to their favourite things (books, TV shows, movies, natlangs, conlangs) into their conlangs? Or put something like a private joke in there? An example of mine is the word cuts /kʊts/ which is similar to the Wenglish word "c...
by Jonlang
Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:21 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

No, a productive suffix is one that can be used freely to form new words, as opposed to an unproductive suffix which can’t. In English -er is a productive agent suffix, because you can add it freely to any verb you want (killer, dancer, walker, eater, seer, …), while -ant is an unproductive agent s...
by Jonlang
Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:48 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Cellar door
Replies: 95
Views: 25285

Re: Cellar door

Zaarin wrote:I fell in love with Welsh English thanks to Merrill in Dragon Age 2
Ah yes, Eve Myles :wink:
by Jonlang
Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:40 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

What's the difference between the agent suffixes -wr (gwerthwr) and -ydd (arlunydd)? Not much that I can see. Nowadays -ydd seems more productive. (Of your two examples, gwerthwr has been attested since about 1400 whereas arlunydd is barely a century-and-a-half old.) So you'd say that -wr seems to ...
by Jonlang
Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:06 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Questions about Welsh
Replies: 308
Views: 61169

Re: Questions about Welsh

What's the difference between the agent suffixes -wr (gwerthwr) and -ydd (arlunydd)?
by Jonlang
Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:29 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Cellar door
Replies: 95
Views: 25285

Re: Cellar door

No, but it would affect the pronunciation of cellar door that he found so attractive. This one: /sɛlə dɔ̝ː/ (or near it) I imagine. But one can't just assume that he intended all of the -or words in Middle-Earth to reflect his affection for /sɛlə dɔ̝ː/. Anyway, his point about "cellar door" wasn't ...
by Jonlang
Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:34 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Cellar door
Replies: 95
Views: 25285

Re: Cellar door

Gondor, Mordor and Eriador all have rhotic Rs, and so don't really fit the /sɛlə dɔ̝ː/ thing. Did J.R.R. have a rhotic or non-rhotic accent? Non-rhotic, I'm pretty certain. Why does it matter? Tolkien spoke with a non-rhotic, near enough RP accent. I don't see how that affects his intended pronunci...