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P.S. you can send attachments through PM? Didn't know of that. Actually, you can't send attachments through PM. The PM option would've entailed me sending you long lists of words in the text body of my messages. (The LCV is so long that it takes a few PM's to send it all.) Anyway, today I added som...

Even Indo-European languages often have "evidential" markers that aren't buolt into the verb. English, for instance, has "I hear" or "I heard" for hearsay, and "they say" for conventional wisdom.

All right, so yesterday I got this awesome idea for a futuristic technology that we could have by PS 13,000. You know virtual reality? Well, this is called cerebral reality. You go to a CR center and you see a tiger, or a dragon, or an abomhiz, or a spear, or a sword, or a tank, or a palm tree, or a...

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Yesterday I coined over a hundred new Kankonian words. Things we can now say in Kankonian include: ask-hupiyi : siphonophore ( ask , colony + hupiyi , hydra) halmazin : to fight to the death ( hal- , prefix for all + mazin , to fight) ezgrin halmazini : holy war (Internet/PAIMO fight over a religiou...

Declining body part nouns Body part nouns ending with a single, unaccented vowel nebu: nose Singular Nominative: nebu Accusative: nebam Genitive: nebau Dative: nebet Vocative: nebuk Instrumental: nebaiz Oblique: nebaz Plural Nominative: nebod Accusative: nebod'am Genitive: nebod'au Dative: nebod'et...

Dva_arla, would the list in the Snowball Game be the perfect compromise for you? Not counting the names, there are 625 word-entries. It has some animals, clothing words, technology, and other non-universals, but nothing too Latinate for a child-level vocabulary.

I like the sound of these :) Thanks1 Declining animal nouns Animal nouns ending with a single, unaccented vowel dzipe: spider Singular Nominative: dzipe Accusative: dzipik Genitive: dzipeu Dative: dzipou Vocative: dzipan Instrumental: dzipem Oblique: dzipaox Plural Nominative: dzipat Accusative: dz...

20. Rob *aizias ampat apashapes er nagar az wan bedeyas khazides na virakh na wan re sheiz we de ever meyez bedeyas horoboses na mem. Rob undergo-PRS so_many accident-PL LOC work that 3s change-PRS mark-PL of burn of 3s COMP fast ADV than other person-PL change-PRS pants of 3p Rob has so many accide...

No, jo̤, t h o . . . you've got an -o thing going on. I wonder if all three words will retain their original meanings after all those years! It's a good question! I suspect some of them may live on as suffixes only or in compound words. I have not made those decisions just yet :P The -o frequency i...

Newcomer here; on which site can the Landau Core Vocabulary-in-progress be accessed? Thanks in advance. It's not online anywhere. I need to send it to you via email or PM. I can PM it to you, or I can email you. If you'd like the LCV in email format, just PM me your email addy, unless you'd like ev...

ʔokabe(F) -> ʔokaβe ->ʔõkawe -> õkowa -> o̰kwa 'okabez: possession (from 'oka , sack + -bez , suffix for things) Haha I enjoy some of these quite a bit like this one. Thanks! Now that I have -bez, I'll consider using it kind of like the Japanese -mono. (d)zipe(F) -> dzepa -> repa dzipe : spider ( d...

No, jo̤, tho . . . you've got an -o thing going on. I wonder if all three words will retain their original meanings after all those years!

Khemehekis: I've updated the classifiers. If they interest you as possible roots stemming from Txabao. I've indicted the current semantic scope of the words. Just to be clear I imagine the classifiers would have stemed from lexical items, probably nouns. Awesome! ʔokabe(F) -> ʔokaβe ->ʔõkawe -> õko...

It fills me with joy to be doing this kind of collaboration actually and that we can feed each other ideas like this. The meanings you give things suggest all sorts of new compound forms. Like if gazhex is leader then through sound changes would be... /kʰara̰/ which isn't strictly obviously connect...

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The whole thing is ridiculous, but they can't even figure out how to get rid of spambots that are on the site without killing half the (sfw/rule abiding) art and writing blogs with them.

ISFP's and INFP's suffer.

Hopefully this ENFP won't go down that route.

From greg to ja̤ ! A truly spectacular change! In The Power of Babel , John McWhorter mentions an Amerindian language in which the word for "water" reduced from something polysyllabic in its ancestor to something like aa or o . It's fascinating to see how the Txabao words would look millennia later....

Declining male nouns Male nouns ending with a single, unaccented vowel ksapu: man Singular Nominative: ksapu Accusative: ksapis Genitive: ksapao Dative: ksapaeq Vocative: ksapan Instrumental: ksapen Oblique: ksapar Plural Nominative: ksapas Accusative: ksapas'is Genitive: ksapas'ao Dative: ksapas'a...

It might actually just be a new blog thing, for whatever reason. A {{new blog} thing}, or a {new {blog thing}}? The former :') probably in the interest of "stopping spam" or something else that doesn't actually work. Ah, yes. The term "feel-good measure" would probably be appropriate to apply to th...

Very nice. When I was young, I was very Chthonian .... like many young boys, I played outside and couldnt understand why girls and adults seemed to spend so much of their time in the bathtub. I even remember being offended at an advertisement for soap that implied there was something wrong with bei...