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My conlangery Twitter:
Me? I'm just a lawn-mower; you can tell me by the way I walk.

It's also a phenomenal roleplaying game. :p

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"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”

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Sunàqʷa the Sea Lamprey says:

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"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”

oh god i had to look that word up (chitin) when I was reading a book because i'd never seen it before and i still ended up pronouncing it wrong...

So I just learned that Konkani is pronounced [kõkɳi] in the language itself. All this time I've been saying /kahn'kaniy/.

It's just like Romani.

I only know it's [kõkɳi] because one of my neighbors speaks it. When I was growing up, she and my mom hung out a lot, so of course, her kids hung out with me a lot. They were among the very few kids that did, and I soon ended up going to school with them.

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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.

No, no! The nasalized vowel is phonemic! Like in Polish!

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In Budapest:
- Hey mate, are you hung-a-ry?

Ah.

So…

CONKney, then!

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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.

Also the vowel in Cockney is considerably lower and more fronted than [o] IMD.

I guess I've been stressing Awadhi all wrong, too.

Spanish, you have so much to answer for.

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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.