If I've got the meaning of "concatenative" right, my language is that.
I know I've succeeded, because when I've shown people it, they say it sounds like the languages I chose to combine the sounds of.
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- 22 Mar 2014 16:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Thread on Non-Concatenative Conlanging
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7793
- 21 Mar 2014 10:29
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Germanic qualities of language
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2236
Re: Germanic qualities of language
Word order:
- Verb second in declarative sentences.
- Verb first in closed questions.
- Verb second in declarative sentences.
- Verb first in closed questions.
Re: Depuy
No desire to stifle creativity - but does anyone else feel like the tense system's a bit kitchen-sinky?
- 21 Feb 2014 21:31
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: To be or not to be
- Replies: 90
- Views: 22358
Re: To be or not to be
Dorska: Era au en era - qe on onkona.
- 21 Feb 2014 01:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: 4-dimensional creatures and language.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3876
Re: 4-dimensional creatures and language.
It's also not the 4th dimension because dimensions are not ordered. Also, I thought about this 4D creature idea as well, but alas; 4 dimensional mouths. It's clearly ordered, otherwise it would not be called the 4th spatial dimension... Though 3D, 2D, 1D are not ordered, yet we give then names as s...
- 20 Feb 2014 19:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: 4-dimensional creatures and language.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3876
Re: 4-dimensional creatures and language.
It's also not the 4th dimension because dimensions are not ordered.
Also, I thought about this 4D creature idea as well, but alas; 4 dimensional mouths.
Also, I thought about this 4D creature idea as well, but alas; 4 dimensional mouths.
- 20 Feb 2014 18:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: 4-dimensional creatures and language.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3876
Re: 4-dimensional creatures and language.
The 4th dimension is not time. There are hypothesised up to 11 physical dimensions. Time is considered seperate to all of them.
- 12 Feb 2014 22:32
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Follow your bliss
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1805
Re: Follow your bliss
Dorska
Jos jor veseqie mara, ðos omme aumejen portað ai jorwen, qen nor moroi ende.
If a man follows being happy, everything will open doors for the man, when only walls were.
I'll gloss it later.
Jos jor veseqie mara, ðos omme aumejen portað ai jorwen, qen nor moroi ende.
If a man follows being happy, everything will open doors for the man, when only walls were.
I'll gloss it later.
- 11 Feb 2014 21:22
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Are english articles prefixes?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5504
Re: Are english articles prefixes?
It could be considered a clitic, perhaps. But as said - the people think it is a word, thus it is one. Language - the perfect democracy.
- 09 Feb 2014 15:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: ConWorkShop
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9693
Re: ConWorkShop
This website is truly beautiful. Thanks.
- 08 Feb 2014 22:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Notion of "love" in your conlangs?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4540
Re: Notion of "love" in your conlangs?
Yep - Elska is intransitive. The "object" of one's love is the indirect object. I suppose this is part of my philosophy; that we are responsible for our own emotions and they are quite separate from externals. "I love you." Male > Female: Ei vir elskar. Female > Male: El dir elsk...
- 06 Feb 2014 19:16
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What kind of conlanger are you?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 104467
Re: What kind of conlanger are you?
Former loyalist-Scrapper now Loyalist. The scrappings have all been in the name of creating the "perfect" Conlang. I'm very satisfied with the language's current form, and while it could still change, it won't change much at all.
- 05 Feb 2014 18:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Verbs in your conlang
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7801
Re: Verbs in your conlang
I work with: - 3 aspects (Simple/Perfective/Imminent (future version of perfective)) - 5 tenses (Present/Past/Far Past/Future/Far Future - 3 moods (inflected) (Indicative/Subjunctive/Conditional) - 3 persons (1st/2nd/3rd) Each inflection has a base suffix, one that is generally used to mark this gra...
- 02 Feb 2014 01:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: In your opinion, how would the most difficult language be?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3515
Re: How would be the most difficult language?
Making a "most difficult language" needs a reference. It seems you've used generally isolating/modern European languages or something as yours. There's no absolute.
- 27 Jan 2014 20:59
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Ordering Coffee
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3907
Re: Ordering Coffee
:con: Dorska : Jarai mei Kaven sun assi kermar ja onno ose. Jar-ai mei Kave-n su-n assi kerma-r ja onno ose have-1:SBJV 1:GEN coffee-ACC ADOR*-ADJ two cream-PL and:NMZ** one sugar *ADOR = Adornative **NMZ is used with this because the conjunction is used as "and" for connecting nouns alone...
- 27 Jan 2014 20:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: One old grouch and one nice lady lives here...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1860
One old grouch and one nice lady lives here...
My friend pointed out to me a sign someone hung up on their door. It said "One old grouch and one nice lady lives here." and he asked me "Shouldn't it be ' live here'?". I said that it depended on whether you grammatically class the two subjects as one plural unit or two singular...
- 14 Jan 2014 21:21
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Advice on behemoth vowel system
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4179
Re: Advice on behemoth vowel system
This isn't unusually large. It seems pretty standard to me really. I like it.
- 30 Dec 2013 23:01
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Whom did you see Jennifer and?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5083
Re: Whom did you see Jennifer and?
Not once have I ever seen the title of this thread's rule used. It's only ever been "You saw Jennifer and whom?". I honestly thought this was some kind of typo.
- 28 Dec 2013 19:32
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424652
Re: Self-Introduction
I'm looking forward to that Romance language.
- 26 Dec 2013 18:16
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Corso d'Italiano - Italian Lessons
- Replies: 162
- Views: 52014
Re: Corso d'Italiano - Italian Lessons
"I wish you well."?