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Yeah! Thanks for taking over, Click

I'm in too, but this time I'm going to use Yélian.

I was new in Germany, had a job, and a lady told that a guy came with full 'carajo' down the street, and i asked myself what she ment with it, since she seemed to be a quite decent lady, and for me what she was saying was that the guy came with a "full penis" down the street. 'Carajo' is for me a p...

The whole town does some external inclusivity during the morning twilight mist. That being said, how about a new relay, guys? When would it be? I might be able to hurry up and get K'otê to a level where I could participate. I'd love to host it, but I'm on vacation for the entire September. So eithe...

I feel like Khemehekis has killed this thread - no offense at all, but every small achievement pales in comparison to this incredible amount of vocabulary that Kankonian has. [:(] That being said, I'm still proud of Caelian that has finally reached the 1,000 word mark. The 1,000st word is the root *...

Found another structual one:

all but
alles außer (everything except)

In a sentence like "nowadays, smoking in restaurants is all but forbidden", if you translate it too literally into German it sounds like smoking in restaurants is everything, but not forbidden.

Ranking of objects for verbal inflection As described before, Caelian inflects after subject and object of a noun. A speciality of the Caelian declension is that the object needn't necessarily be the direct object, but all other objects and adverbials can be used too. It is not arbitrary though, an...

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Reyzandren wrote:The whole town does some external inclusivity during the morning twilight mist.

That being said, how about a new relay, guys?

As Caelian has finally reached the mark of 1,000 words I'd like to add it to the conlang census. Bath'aso and Paatherye both stagnate at about 800 words so I don't want to add them as for now. Caelian (2014) - agglutinative/fusional, nonconcatenative, large phoneme inventory (29 consonant phonemes, ...

:con: Caelian Güzernal, Zanëz kë tirumit galapuil Zabyeng birgyoses!! Käitüsed parruiw të ganbajung dacijederri Tyeng tijetoknily hat pëc Rer Tef huvokrinför hondus gen. Folcës. [gyzɛɾˈnal, zaˈnəs kʰe tʰiruˈmit galaˈpʰʊɪ̯l zaˈbʲɛŋ biɾgʲɔʒɛʃ | kʰæɪ̯tʰyˈʒɛd pʰaˈrʊɪ̯ɥ̯ tʰə ganbaˈjuŋ daʝɪ̯ɛdɛˈri tʲɛŋ tɪ...

It is most definitely "貓" which Google Translate says is cat. (Not sure if you know this, but Google and other translators have a handwriting option so that you can literally write the character and pick from a list of approximations that best fit what you wrote. It is an awesome feature for determ...

Sorry for derailing btw And i dont feel this is something regional, it just seems that germans havent found a clearly preferred word so far... Silly billy -- you didn't tell us how you say "wallet" in your varietal neck of the woods. <Porte­mon­naie ~ Port­mo­nee> [pɔː.mɔ.ne~pɔːt.mɔ.ne] is the only...

Stumbled across this one: :deu: Postbote - postman :lux: Bréifboîte - postbox It may not be immediately clear why this is a false friend. But in German, you could also say "Briefbote" and even though the word does not exist everyone would understand that "Postbote" is meant. So when I stumbled acros...

:con: Yélian Acat, sanim dinum o'yigáran cidepuravasut pas pastor!! An'igatyan væcurʻi iy veta u paru can totʻi, èpa cenʻit værbaldest pi tyáfadʻi. Anaslocan. [ˈaːkɐt, ˈsaːnɨm ˈdiːnʉm ɔ̈ɕɨˈxaːɾɐn kɨdəˈpuːɾɐʋɐsʉ‿pɐs ˈpastɔ̈d̟ | ɐnɨˈxaːt͡ʃɐn vəˈkuɾʔi a̯iː ˈveːtɐ u ˈpaːɾu kɐn ˈtotʔi, ˈɛpɐ ˈkenʔɨt vəɾˈb...

As with previous posts, I also endorse using one's conlangs to really get a feel how they run. Maybe find a "Positive Thought for Every Day", "A Prayer for Every Day", "A Sutra for Every Day", "A Grook for Every Day", "A Hadith for Every Day" or "A Randy Limerick for Every Day" calendar, or whateve...

呼啸：the component characters kind of tell you where you're going with this verb (海啸 is a tidal wave). Wuthering Heights is translated into Chinese as 呼啸山庄, so we can translate 呼啸 as the obscure "wuther". Oops, well that's what the dictionaries don't tell you. I literally browsed MDBG and looked for ...

:chn: Mandarin 你杀掉他吗？是的。/ 不是。 Nĭ shādiào tā ma? Shìde. / Bùshì. 2SG kill-COMPL 3SG.MASC POL | yes | no Did you kill him? Yes. No. 你没杀掉他吗？不对。对了。 Nĭ méi shādiào tā ma? Bùduì. Duìle. 2SG NEG.PST kill-COMPL 3SG.MASC POL | false | true Didn't you kill him? Yes. No. Note that in Mandarin polar questions a...

Mandarin (attempt)

男人一边走在街道上，一边呼啸一支快乐的曲。
Nánrén yībiān zŏu zài jiēdào shàng, yībiān hūxiào yīzhī kuàilè de qū.
man at_same_time walk at street up, at_same_time whistle one-CL happy ATTR song
A man came walking down the street, whistling a happy tune.

:chn: Chinese F*** the last sentence. I used google translate for it. 别判断我... 尊敬的朋友， 我向某人从来没展示过这本日记。一旦我死掉，大家就可以读。请把这本书带到图书馆。使他把这本日记放在图书馆的我的短篇小说、诗和书的收藏的里面。 我对每个人的爱。 尊敬的朋友， Zun1jing4 de peng2you3 beloved GEN friend Dear Friend, 我向某人从来没展示过这本日记。 Wo3 xiang4 mou3ren2 cong2lai2 mei2 zhan3shi4guo zhe4ben3 r...

:fin: ilma - air :isl: ilma - to smell pleasant It looks to good not to be true, but apparently they are really not related. The Finnic word is of Proto-Uralic origin and I doubt that there are too many Uralic loanwords in Icelandic, let alone ones that have maintained their original form so well.