Yeah, I think I thought you were older too, shimo. Happy birthday

So I want to kind of start over with verbs, because, while the information I provided before about verbs wasn't entirely incorrect, it was incomplete and I had rushed through it a bit mainly because I've found the verbal system so complicated and confusing. I don't like being confused by my own conl...

CarsonDaConlanger wrote: ↑

Thu 11 Oct 2018, 01:20

Next: osena [ɔ'sɛ,na] n. jewelry, adornment

ušínā /u.'ʃi.naː/ - pendant, amulet

Next: hémaks /'xɛ.maks/ - woodpecker

I'm pleased by how much of my Introduction to Linguistics course feels like review [:D] I guess I knew more about this subject than I thought. I owe most of that to conlanging, that's for sure :mrgreen: Yay! I had the same experience. I hope you're enjoying the class! Very much so :) There’s nothin...

I'm pleased by how much of my Introduction to Linguistics course feels like review I guess I knew more about this subject than I thought. I owe most of that to conlanging, that's for sure

Earth (and Erde) - أَرْض 'ard "earth"

I'm sure this one has been brought up many times before, but I just read it in a book about Arab history and that's just weird. I mean, how can they not be related? One has to wonder...

Essentially I view this as similar to people's preferences re. the sounds of other languages. You ask English speakers (not just American from what I've seen) what languages they don't like the sound of, they will say German/Russian/Arabic, and you ask what languages they like the sound of, they wil...

The people I hear say they hate it do sometimes reference the sound, so I’m not quite willing to say the sound has nothing to do with it. I hadn’t heard of it being used sexually, though, so that certainly would make sense in explaining some part of the revulsion (note that “wet” is more common as a...

Outside of the linguistic world (in the world of lay English speakers, that is), it's pretty universally recognized that the word "moist" is unpleasant. If you post a poll about what word people think sounds the worst, I swear, at least half of people asked will say "moist". Is it just because there...

Can Latin conjugations somehow be derived from PIE? The Latin conjugations are not a direct reflex of PIE verb classes, but they contain PIE classes within them (not always evenly distributed). The 1st conjugation is mostly denominative verbs (formed from o- and ā-stem nouns), as well as causatives...

Cool thanks

Test with TextEditor:
Yay. I honestly much prefer to use Mac, so it always bugs me when something works better on Windows than on Mac.

Hmm, I've written all my code tables in Mac Pages, and they've always worked fine for me. Really? Well I just tried again. Here's Pages: CASE SINGULAR DUAL PLURAL NOM léhēn léhenē léhenes GEN lhnés lhnéyaus lhnān And with Notepad on Windows: CASE SINGULAR DUAL PLURAL NOM léhen léhenē léhenes GEN lh...

Yeah, I guess I never tried it with a different editor. I will say that I've never gotten it to work on Mac, no matter what editor I use. Only seems to work with Windows for me.

this_is_an_account wrote: ↑

Tue 04 Sep 2018, 20:56

How does one make one of those code things with the green monospace font?

The way to do it is type something up in Notepad using a monospace font (like Courier New). Then copy the text from Notepad into the "code" brackets (press the button to the right of the "quote" button in the text editor).

Wow, there really are a lot of LGBT conlangers (I'm no exception) [:D] I had a feeling that would be the case, but I don't know why. Anyway, this is awfully personal, but I'll answer: 1. Cis-male 2. Bisexual 3. Right-handed 4. American (Californian) 5. French/German 6. OCD/Aspberger's (mild in both ...

Wow, you certainly have given this a lot of thought [O.O] Having been born in 2000, I still consider myself "Gen Z" over "Millennial" (a perception of being born in 1999+ is perhaps regarding "Millennials" as being in their 20s and 30s now and thus not qualifying as one at 18), but the group you des...

I mean, I live in wine country and we have a vineyard on our property, so...yeah...if I didn't like wine, my family would probably disown me That said, I haven't had much, but I have liked what I've tried, though it has all been locally made. Wine is a common gift around here :)

Loyalist who thinks about other conlangs, but will probably never create them. Lihmelinyan über alles

Khemehekis wrote: ↑

Mon 13 Aug 2018, 02:17

(The story of Hans putting his finger in a dike was also with an i.)

Well that's a relief.

How would you pronounce /c/ /ɲ/ when they occur in the coda position, especially when they are not word final. I can pronounce them when they occur as onsets, but I noticed some languages have them occur word finally, and wanted to try that. Do you know of any natlangs where these occur as codas? H...