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Jerian wrote:I made this map last week. It's the latest creative thing I've done. Don't have that much time to spend on conworlding b/c of school, but at least it's a step.

http://i.imgur.com/eOoOM.jpg

The link is bad.

Malsfaom Vanesa: Nib řoelutë. Boc Baďë: b12 Šriftî surkestei: Soî šriftî surkestei soei malsfaomei (et soa cumepesa bolëďë čilen šriftin) eu Irlädan (Zol), Meďir (Razum), Agolec Dašcam (Otišatësa), Zažombren (Otišatësa), Soter (Zol), Oir (Mudraë), Šadan (Manuantos), Tralirát (Mudraë), er Nuotan (Zo...

Chin muskarin leftadi sherta?
now tribe-PL.ACC require-PST.PART "estar"-3SG.
We have to have clans now?

To be fair, that may in part be the fault of Gaelic orthography, rather than the textbook. Imagine, if you will, a 'learn English' guide trying to explain how English vowels are pronounced. Don't think it would do much better than your book. HOW TO PRONOUNCE ENGLISH VOWELS The best way to learn how...

I usually refer to it as either the sidewalk median or the sidewalk strip , on the rare occasions when I need to refer to it. I associate the word berm with a steep, grassy slope much longer than it is tall (either by itself or as part of a structure), usually manmade and/or associated with a manmad...

I know "like" does confirm the hyperbolic nature of a hyperbole, e.g.: How are we gonna find Steve in this mess? There's like, 80 billion people here!"

Okay, I had another very weird dream night. It started out with what appeared to be some sort of sword in what appeared to be a meteorite crater with a tree in the middle, glistening like in some sort of fantasy. Then I found myself lying on my bed in apparent sleep paralysis. Notice I do not use th...

Ghostfishe wrote:Sounds like something out of a creepypasta, TBH.

Yeah.

Also, I don't know how relevant this is to the meaning of the dream, but cibum was sung with the Classical Latin /k/, not the Church Latin /tʃ/.

I had a dream associated with what was apparently a fitful night's sleep. In the first part of it I was at what I think was supposed to be some swanky hotel/office building, and I and a handful of my friends and coworkers were trying to do... something, I don't exactly remember, but I think it invol...

I remember in my dream last night checking the weather, discovering that it was "1089°F" (which should be 587°C), and being surprisingly pleased at this fact as though it was a nice warm day, if unusually warm. I think somehow my brain somehow had changed the Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion formula...

[ˈtɪs]

[t]?

I am from Northern Texas and have never heard intervocalic /t/ pronounced as just about anything other than [ɾ], except possibly mothers enunciating very clearly to toddler children. This smacks of a dialectical hypercorrection to me. I also pronounce /l/ as /ɫ/ in all positions, including word-init...

Report on Wyoming water doesn't end fracking debate just end the fracking debate already Every time I read an article on fracking, I think along these lines. Romney: $10G Bet is 'Outrageous' Sum for 'Outrageous' Claim." (yes, it's Fox News.) Misinterpreted the G as meaning "giga-" rather than "gran...

I was reading some sort of prequel to The Lord of the Rings . No, not The Hobbit , this prequel took place something like 20,000 years beforehand and the appendix in the back listed a crapload of ages that preceded the "First" Age. I think there was some influence of Zelda: Skyward Sword on this dr...

Ouagadougou wrote:How do you make -ly adjectives into adverbs, e.g. friendly, silly?
My usual cop-out is "in a ___ manner/way", but that sort of circumlocution can get quite tiring.

Generally, I employ synonyms.

friendly = ami(c)able --> ami(c)ably
silly = ridiculous (usually) --> ridiculously

din wrote:It's like feminism for men.

That makes it sound like a cologne.

FEMINISM
For Men
~By Calvin Klein~

Risla wrote:Lucius Malfoy had coerced me, by threatening me with Avada Kedavra, into going to his mansion and doing his taxes. A lot less exciting than my last dream involving him.

You'd think he'd just use Imperio...

I was reading some sort of prequel to The Lord of the Rings . No, not The Hobbit , this prequel took place something like 20,000 years beforehand and the appendix in the back listed a crapload of ages that preceded the "First" Age. I think there was some influence of Zelda: Skyward Sword on this dre...

future > potential (of something to happen) > ability > skill, talent > repertoire (the skills one has) > curriculum vitae > summary > thesis > essay > manuscript

Next word: fourteen

It does heavily depend on technology and geography. Mebhara for instance has a land area of ~663,000 km^2 (approximately 27% of which is used for agricultural or other food-raising purposes) and a population of ~40 million, with ~1980s tech, which is a population density of ~60 people km^-2, on par ...

míkl wrote:Next: star

star > night sky > night > work at night (via verbing) > prostitute

Next: pollute

sano wrote:next: intermediary; matchmaker; go-between

Mebharan: semdriker, from sem 'between', driken 'run'; i.e. "between-runner"

Next word: modulus (the mathematical operation; 15 mod 6 = 3)

I dreamed I was inside a church building attending what I think was supposed to be Obama's inauguration, though we were referring to him as Senator Obama the whole time. At any rate, I was talking with some other senator while in a T-shirt and boxer shorts and realized it was probably a good time to...

The US Declaration of Independence. You don't want me to post the whole thing here, let alone with gloss or IPA. Just the first few lines if you want. I'd like to see just a bit. I wrote it a while back and without including a gloss at the time, so I'm having to back-gloss a little. Also, for the p...

The US Declaration of Independence.

You don't want me to post the whole thing here, let alone with gloss or IPA.