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Experimenting a bit with archaic Yorkish here: :con: Old Yorkish Lit iþr auʒn uppai min uerk, i mattiʒ, oʒ biuesʒ! Mod: /lɛit jər ɒːn pʰɛa mə wɛrk | jɛi ˈmati | ɒ ˈpɛif(ɪ)s/ look.IMP 2PL.POSS eye-PL upon 1SG.POSS.N.PL work | 2PL mighty | and tremble.IMP-REFL Light your eyes upon my works, ye mighty,...

Jajaja, el vocabulario puede ser lo peor.... Encuentro que mantener palabras tan dificil, especialmente si no tengo una referencia rápida para retenerles. Ahaha, vocabulary can be the worst.... I find keeping hold of words so difficult, especially if I don't have a quick reference for remembering t...

¿Qué pasó? ¿No se reemplazará para nada el profesor? Suena extreño... What happened?? Aren't they replacing the teacher at all? That sounds bizarre... Ta waeth, mi wn i sut wyt ti'n teimlo am ddysgu ieithoedd - wir i di, dw i'n ymdrechu â chadw ffocws. Fedra i ddysgu yn iawn am wythnos neu ddwy ar ...

Hakuvayebiyumogárifoŋā. But I am learning to be like an elephant. Hwarniʒ gis noen lere asʒen at ware sam en olifont? Gis tha lere at ganne deup stepper oʒ weive than airm sam ei tromp, els gis tha lere at seine thasʒen oʒ minse pae thasʒen? /ˈʍarni cɪs nʊən lɪər əˈɕɛn ə wɒːr sam ən‿ˈɒlɪfɒn | cɪs‿t...

:con: Yorkish Gin tha cens tha fiend oʒ cen thasʒen, tha thar'k rethe the leithaf frae ei hundriʒ slauer. /cɪn‿tə cçεns‿tə fɪənt ɒ cçεn θəˈɕεn | θa ˈθar(ɪ)k rɪəθ t‿ˈleːθˌaf frεa‿ə ˈhʊntri slɒːər/ if 2SG know-PRS.2SG 2SG.POSS enemy and know.PRS 2SG.REFL.PRO | 2SG need=NEG fear DEF=lead_off from IDEF ...

:con: Yorkish Has tha etten ʒer? /has‿tə ˈεtɪn jeːr/ have.PRS.2SG-2SG eat-PST.PART already Have you eaten already? Ʒe sa hun ʒer. /jə sɒː‿ɪn jeːr/ 1SG see.PST 3MSG.OBL already I saw him already. Ska han ware thar ʒer thae wi kom? /skɒː‿ɪn war θar jeːr θɛa wɛi kʰɒm/ FUT.AUX 3MSG be.INF there already ...

Yorkish
I himmen is aullat braw.
/i ˈçɪmɪn ɪs ˈɒːlɪt prɒː/
in heaven be.PRS.3 all.PRO fine
In heaven, everything's fine.

Yorkish
At's kauld.
/ats kʰɒːlt/
It's cold.

At's warm.
/ats warm/
It's warm.

At reʒns.
/at reːns/
It rains.

At sneues.
/at snʏə̯s/
It snows.

The suil scines.
/t.sʏə̯l scɛi̯ns/
The sun shines.

Amggggg saeeee guith! Ʒ'am sae glath for tha! Ʒe kan'k bithe tils ʒe kan mesʒen wende me namn offisielt. Omggggggg soooo good! I'm so happy for you!! I can't wait until I can change my name officially. [:D] The stuirst hinder for me nou is ill hygre: ʒe recce mesʒen ennou um opnen mesʒen for me for...

I've come to write that I am almost finished with my first Spanish course. I finish in seven weeks. I am learning to make some maps for the game "Celeste". I want to make a map about food (smores). Da iawn! Wyt ti'n dal yn cofio popeth ti wedi dysgu yn y dosbarth? Well done! Do you still ...

English bingo vs. Cantonese 邊個 bin1go3 "who? whom?"

Spelling conventions Traditional Yorkish The traditional (and to this day still very common) Yorkish spelling is little different from the spelling of Old Yorkish, although in the last century it has received some reform to reflect the modern-day pronunciation and regularise rhyming correspondences...

An older meme, but it still checks out. :usa: English When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade, take those lemons back! Make life take those lemons back! Get mad! I don't want these damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thoug...

Yorkish
Kan tha ganne out me suil?
/kʰan‿tə kan uːt mə sʏə̯l/
can 2SG walk out_of 1SG.POSS sun
Can you move out of my sunlight?

A minimally polite request.

Hooray! I was hoping for a thread on this. Your samples looked juicy. Yorkish ( Eurcisc /ˈʏrcɪsc/) is an Insular North Germanic language spoken in Yorkrice (ie. across our Yorkshire and going partway south) and in pockets in Angland. It is closely related to its southern sibling Markish, I assume M...

So I've been posting translations in this lang around the place and I figured I might finally start writing up some detail about it. This first post will be more a synopsis post for the whole language, but my plan for this thread is to write up snapshot posts about the features I'd really like to ta...

Yorkish
The stuirer ar thei, the swarer fall thei.
/t‿stʏərər ar θeː | t‿swɒːrər fɒːl θeː/
DEF big-COMP be.PRS.3PL 3PL | DEF heavy-COMP fall 3PL
The bigger they are, the heavier they fall.

Just doing up to no.6 at the moment, but I might do more later. :con: Yorkish 1. Ick aullan at wandres is farn will. /ɪk ˈɒːlɪn ə ˈwantrɪs ɪs ˈfarɪn wɪl/ NEG all.PRO.ANM REL wander-PRS.3 be.PRS.3 go.PST.PART astray Not everyone who wanders has gone astray. 2. Oʒsa then licklest man kan wende then fr...

:con: Yorkish At scit ware ʒen thing at hat han spirt efter forginning, ut han gi'ck ʒens seʒe at hunsʒen war angret. /at scɪt war jeːn θɪŋ ə hat han spɪrt ɛftər fɒrˈcɪnɪnk | ʊt han cɪk jeːns sej ə çʏnˈɕɛn wər ˈankrɪt/ 3NSG COND.AUX be one thing SBORD have.PST 3MSG ask-PST.PART after forgiveness | b...

The weʒ mi at ei man gans gen biʒ: um ei "gate".
The way by which someone walks through a village: along a "road".