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I have been feeling that I'm moving up the Kinsey scale. Which is a new and strange experience for me. I'd say now that I'm closer to a low 5 / high 4 (5= predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual, 4= predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally hetero ). To compare to the pre...

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Ha yuh pa rklan aram ya lkhyun glya yuh? [ha juh pa ɻəklan ʔaɻam ja ləcʰun glja juh] Is it also influenced by Aramaic? Eywa bes lo ẖossēt ẖissat tatiraš agen anayi odi lugus asira, Arabiya her u her yani yes but NEG think-PRET.1sg thought-CONS influence-3sg now that-1sg know.fa'il language.pl conte...

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Ha sru ra ryan laora rklan 'kat kha leng at? [ha ʂu ɻa ɻjan lɔɻa ɻəklan ʔəkat̚ kʰa leŋ ʔat̚] Is that supposed to be modern-day Akkadian? Eywa! Ša lags ēš injeb ašoriy mütasar it arabiya u türkiya u farsiya u kürdiya yes | she language GEN descent Assyrian influenced with Arabic and Turkish and Pers...

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An ša šey jümel it lags-ē Agad an ša šey jümel it lags-ē Agad this 3sg.FEM thing sentences with language-CONS Akkad These are some sentences in the language of Akkad Dosti hünek yašu! Esmoš Aẖmad mor H̱üseyn tojir. dost-i hünek y-ašu esm-oš Ahmad mor Hüseyn tojir friend-1sg.POSS there 3sg-be... nam...

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The term 3āmmiyya muthaqqafa has been mentioned here and it does sound like what OP is referring to. In my experience with Moroccans, MSA negators seem to be preserved with more scrutiny when they speak with me in MSA. This contrasts to my experiences with Egyptians who tend to speak with MSA vocabu...

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Nortaneous wrote:i to used to be a republican before i grew up and learned better. restore the stuarts

hi mencius

Arzena

I've attempted to make a neo-Akkadian lang myself too! I'm interested to see what Greek, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish influences you put in! What motivates the transliteration of /ʃ/ as <sch>? What are the sound changes that you've imagined from ancient Akkadian to the present day?

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Since I can't find the "Fuck Ups in Your Native Language Thread",

Friend: "No translation (name of professor) is sick"
Me: "Oh yeah, I agree, she is really cool outside of class"
Friend: "...no Arzena, there's no translation class today because our professor is physically ill"
Me: "Oh"

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Arabic. Modern Standard for the past four years at university. Sprinkled with conversational competency in Egyptian Arabic. But since I'm staying in Morocco for the year, most of my effort goes to Moroccan Arabic now.

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Well I'm taking *kyãti and putting it into Empotle7á as kení and tsení

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@Janko, both of the languages I provided don't really have words for 9 and 10 because both count in base-8 rather than base-10. That is not to say, however, that one cannot say that 9 or 10 of things exist. So, here they are, for your list: Emp: ŋawo tsá tawo (9) and ŋawo tsá sí (10) Shtasa: tabdhïn...

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Hi Janko, I don't remember if I gave you these numbers already, but here they (in base eight) are in Empotle7á and Shtåså (can you spot the shared etymologies ;D) Empotle7á 1. tawo 2. sí 3. nalló 4. mená 5. 7otlá 6. mení 7. nallé 10. ngawo Shtåså 1. tab 2. shi 3. nasty 4. nheddh 5. us 6. mech 7. nai...

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At the host family in Morocco today, host father asks me if /stãws/ was a good time to go to the pool tomorrow. I thought he had slipped into French (not an uncommon occurrence here!) and so I got confused. Host dad sees that I'm not understanding and repeats himself in Modern Standard Arabic: sitta...

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Perhaps they were driven to conquer for partly religious reasons, not unlike the Kennan. (Perhaps they even informed the Destroyer myth that featured in Anheshnalåks culture.) There are lots of possibilities to explore - we may not have tigon-riders any more, but I reckon there's still plenty of ro...

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I think I have mostly finished fleshing out the sound changes for the major dialects of Gezoro now. (That is, I'm done with them unless I come across any phonologically illegal sequences when I have a closer look at the morphology.) They build upon Kodé's changes on the wiki page, add a bit more de...

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It's been a productive day:
*One hour ago* I will do some work on some names in a conlang
*Now* Discovers potential ablaut system in that conlang's proto-lang via etymological work on said names.

And leftover Ethiopian food to eat for dinner. Yummmmm

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Cool stuff Duke of Nuke! You're inspiring me to get back to working on Shtasa and Empotle7a and fleshing them out

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Xephyr wrote:Just got this in the mail.

It's full of barred lambdas, superscript w's, diacritical apostrophes, and other awesome stuff like that.

Yes.... yeess... let your anger FLOW through you....

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I was under the impression that Earth's polar areas were quite temperate several hundreds of millions of years ago. If my recollection is correct, then you wouldn't need a planet with a radical axial tilt to achieve a temperate Arctic/Antarctic zone.

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Pham nó láoékúmpeltshé tawolaŋ.
then oh {pl}-{NC1}-eat.meat/celebrate-{EVID3.taste}-{ERG.2sg} first-{ADV.manner}
Then you eat them first

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To kkue uo iji ha? thus NEG.JUSS deliberately.kill ACC.3p.DEF.ANIM Q So we shouldn't kill them then? Sétháwokam tésé láotlotlamwokam lákanellálo7í khétotla séwane ephákhá7ó tsá tísékhá7ó wesalló7ú tla {NC3}-make-{EVID8}-{ERG3sg} when {pl.NC1}-meet-{EVID8}-{ERG3pl} {pl}-strangers-{ERGpl} allowance.A...

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Cuezi and Xurnese are my top two. I really want to see finished Tžuro and Teôši though

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Tonight in "Rapid Midnight Conlanging," I present: Gaelic Esperanto! Patro naía caíu eastas aon la tsiálo sancta eastu bhaía nomo Bhaonu raedheat so bhaía eastu bholo bhaía caigheal aon la tsiálo taigheal ancamh sur la taoro Panomhan naían tsiútagan donu al naí hodaoamh Caigh pardonu al naí siúldaid...

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Verbs in Empotle7á , like its cousin Ayčasamo (both are set in the same language family in Akana), can get pretty long with affixes and incorporated nouns. So, my go-to example is the conjugated verb látáotéwowulipétháneŋam , which roughly means, "we will make them eat the meal of crabs". Parsing: l...

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din wrote:next word: prison

Empotle7á:
khálópá /kʰa˥.ɬɤ˥.pa˥/, [kʰa˧.ɬo˦.pɔ˥] (n) prison, jail;
{kháló (v) 'tie up' + pá (sfx) 'place where action occurs'}

Next word: zit

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