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"lath".

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<Anaxandridas> How many artists do you know get paid?
<Anaxandridas> Seriously, name five.

kink - (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
I have no idea what that is

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

Can we consider Shtetl one syllable?

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

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And now Sunàqʷa the Sea Lamprey with our weather report:

Just watched the Creation, which has reminded me of the great word 'purl' - in all five of its meanings! This in turn (no pun intended!) reminds me of 'burl'. And come to think of it 'furl' is a pretty specific word too.

The libretto also uses the word 'pen' in the now obscure meaning of 'feather' or 'wing'. Looking it up, apparently it's also used for a structure inside cuttlefish, and for female swans. Wiktionary doesn't mention it, but it's also sometimes used, particularly in some rural parts of the UK, for a small hill (because a lot of hills are called Pen Suchandsuch).

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas

Not Nahuatl. Polish.

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The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.

If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.

Urbanan, while (presumably) extinct and poorly documented, seems to have been rich in these:

/kak/ 'penis (one's own)'
/kax/ 'penis (of another)' -- but these are single morphemes; the -k/-x alternation doesn't seem to appear with this semantic distinction elsewhere.

/o/ 'prime minister' and 'DNA' (homophones)
/kom/ 'shot to the side pocket (in billiards)'
/kag/ 'depersonalized one'
/vak/ 'the grammatical category of direct address'
/nak/ 'malfunction in an internal combustion engine'

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CONLANG Code: C:S/G v1.1 !lafh+>x cN:L:S:G a+ x:0 n4d:2d !B A--- E-- L--- N0 Id/s/v/c k- ia--@:+ p+ s+@ m-- o+ P--- S++ Neo-Khitanese

Yeah call me skeptical.

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OMG AN ACTUAL CONPOST WTFBBQ

Formerly known as Drydic.

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CONLANG Code: C:S/G v1.1 !lafh+>x cN:L:S:G a+ x:0 n4d:2d !B A--- E-- L--- N0 Id/s/v/c k- ia--@:+ p+ s+@ m-- o+ P--- S++ Neo-Khitanese

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OMG AN ACTUAL CONPOST WTFBBQ

Formerly known as Drydic.

Their 94-year-old informant was killed in a freak surfing accident?

I apologize for chiming in about Urbanan -- I thought it (and its ilk) were more widely known among linguists & linguophiles, and that the joke would be obvious and not derail the actual thread to the degree it has.

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CONLANG Code: C:S/G v1.1 !lafh+>x cN:L:S:G a+ x:0 n4d:2d !B A--- E-- L--- N0 Id/s/v/c k- ia--@:+ p+ s+@ m-- o+ P--- S++ Neo-Khitanese

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Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = , ACS / ICS = , GDV = , SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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A salp is any of a group of free-swimming tunicates of the genus Sarpa.

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

A rag is a group of colts.

My favorite word to use in Scrabble: zax (n.)- a specific roofing tool with edges similar to an adz/adze. From OE seax "knife", whence also sax (tool). Initial "z" perhaps from West Country English's pronunciation (as with vane, vixen, and vat) or for differentiation from sax (musical instrument abbreviation).

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Hey there.

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Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = , ACS / ICS = , GDV = , SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific
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