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Great diagram! Obscure terminology can't be clarified much better than that.

Do I even need to give a translation, or is it clear without one? Det damue ourseteng omue verasae doue dit sue dekoe ie tie. /ˈdɛts damə ˈəwəstə ʊmə βɛrzə dəʊ ˈdɪt sə dɛkʊ j tɪ/ right that:on ourseteng REPORTED not:understanding but 1s under clear COP from Well, apart from not understanding ourset...

Uutue mue uutie tie at tie uutie mue uutue tie at tie deue? /ˈəʊtʊ mə ˈ͏əʊtsɪ tɪ ats tɪ ˈəʊtsɪ mə ˈəʊtʊ tɪ ats tɪ ˈzɛʊ/ orange:color on orange:fruit from coming from orange:fruit on orange:color from coming from what Orange: does the fruit come from the color, or the color from the fruit? I suppose...

erkoe /ɛrkʊ/ verb, transitive amaze; impress; stun literally "trap in thought" from er "think" + koe "catch" teerkoe /tsɛəkʊ/ noun amazement; awe; wonder verb, transitive be amazed or awed by from te marking the tee (patient) argument + erkoe "amaze" Next: input output

clawgrip wrote:is there even a need to distinguish between agent and patient? They're clearly both just nouns.

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Daroue amou mee deses tie mee mue deren ties tie trat mue trie mee tes nie en sie tie. /ˈdarəʊ ˈaməʊ mɛ ˈdɛs tɪ mɛ mə ˈdɛrə tsɪs tɪ trts mɛ tɛs njɪ ˈɛn zɪ tɪ/ that:but past in us from part on second person from language on learning in time with having COP.1 from But there have been times in the pas...

ost sue /ʊs sə/ (postposition phrase) forbidden; prohibited < literally "under defending"
iet mee emae /jɪts mɛ ɛmə/ (noun phrase) taboo < literally "never spoken"

Next word: upstart

Risla wrote:so I'm afraid they'll seem noobish

Surely not. How many of us write about syntactic change at all? Looking forward to it.

Digraph nie vedet ue deue sie nie?
/ˈdəɪgraβɪ njɪ ˈβɛdɛts wə zɛʊ z njɪ/
What's wrong with digraphs?

umie /ʌmɪ/ (noun) sense of smell

Next word: unparralleled

Serafín wrote:

Since everyone is making polysynthetic languages,

No, they aren't.

In fact, this is starting to feel like the claim that the board is predominantly gay: widely exaggerated. Between my own conlang, Culla's Kŋau, and others, there are plenty of analytic languages on the board.

I guess what's interesting here is how the thing that means 'could do' involves no less than three pexes in a row What's the reasoning behind the double pex irrealis construction? Is it that more auxiliaries increase the feeling of indirectness and thus add uncertainty? Could one possibly use even ...

miedesie /mɪdzɪ/ (noun) emotion bond or connection < mie life + des hand + die thing, "lifehands"
motanen /mʊtsnə/ (noun) bond; obligation; requirement < mot need + [/i]anen[/i] line, "needline"

Next word: alarm clock

It's still essentially person, just split along the lines of (1st+2nd+proximal 3rd vs. distal 3rd) rather than (1st vs. 2nd vs. 3rd). Might make for an odd person system, but it would still be a person system. Not quite. The distinction is actually first vs nonfirst, where nonfirst is further speci...

The world, as seen from the Bay: We try not to talk about Ubungu , except when we want to try funding another coup. At least they're doing a pretty good job of helping us keep the straits open this time. Of course Lower Bay thinks that Upper Bay actually encourages the corruption in the country, but...

Still following this; it's quite interesting. Preposition choice is always a fun thing to play around with, so I like a vek "by in front of" for the benefactive. And the crash course in Shorragite mythology was a nice cultural addon. How "real" are the gods in your conworld? Will they be involved in...

I like the simplistic elegance of your phonology and morphophonology. Thanks! Of course a length distinction in trills is attested. Finnish! Long trills being attested? What's wrong with that? As Nort said, Finnish! Good to know. It's a keeper, then. Do you have any words that consist of just VV? B...

marnenteree /marnn̩tɛrɛ/ (noun) totalitarianism; authoritarianism < marnen complete + teree command

Next word: apathy

Just started reading this, so sorry if I'm commenting on old stuff that's already been dealt with. Oh wait, apparently I have read this before. @_@ Yeah... it's been a while. Imagine my (pleasant) surprise when this thread was resurrected from the grave. You don't allow a /nr/ cluster intermorphemi...

I write all my long posts in Word or OneNote, which looks something like this. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hKW3FID-B_8/Ud8A1HtETTI/AAAAAAAABLM/hXDHCONgEW4/s640/introduction.png https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SOBiwl75Ivc/Ud8A1Pin-3I/AAAAAAAABLI/VfHxa9RGL2o/s640/sketchpad.png For the early ...

http://i.imgur.com/ezxi5oi.png The Bay countries are a thouroughly corporate pair of countries that despise their socialist pig neighbours to the south. The confusingly named Upper Bay (to the south) and Lower Bay (to the north) are run by a few conglomorate companies who would like nothing better ...

Wow. Okay. I think I got this. teieranen /tsəɪranə/ (noun) axis < teier "turn" + anen "line" neeteen /njɛtsɛə/ (verb, intransitive) go back; recede; retreate < nee "back" + Middle teen "go to" teieranen mue neeteen axis TOP receding "receding of the axis" Maybe a bit straightforward, but it'll have ...

This reminds me of something that I've been wondering about. Here in Canada, thanks to official bilingualism, politicians usually like feel forced to switch between English and French when they're giving their speeches, so the news networks need to have translators on hand to perform simultaneous tr...

This looks like an interesting folktale, and once again this is an excellent way to present a conlang. Some comments: The etymology for "west" and "desert" is very well done. The language doesn't have pronouns, so you repeat jôyand vé nôkôčé "village's adults" where the English translation uses "the...

Isolating languages are my personal favorite. A couple of comments and questions: I like your morphonology and allophony. You have some simple touches that fit together nicely. I also like how you have the case markers being derived from demonstratives. From that, I can't help but wonder whether the...