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Lexember 4, 5 duk 1 -duk 1 n. hammer Hëc duk1-duk1 áng4 IMP.LOC hammer do(PRS) "Stay and hammer [this]" ğôj 3 n., adj snail, spiral; ğôj 3 loc 2 , n. screw Güy 2 áng 4 om 2 duk 1 duk 1 sya 1 ğôj 3 loc 2 ! NEG do(PRS) 1PL hammer on screw "We don't hammer screws!"

You could in theory run an eternal relay by posting torches with a delay, ie. Participant 1's torch is published after Participant 2 passes the torch to Participant 3. I would rather not have to do that. Torch received. Hey VaptuantaDoi, how has progress on the torch been proceeding? Forwards. Slowl...

Lexember 3 lok 2 -tëh 3 n abs. machine-making, engineering, invention qwed117: Lexember 1 zak 4 -ang 2 [t͡sa˩˥kaŋ˥] - v. 'to split, to separate, to cleave' Zak4-ma1 për4 ák3-me1 split-PST mother twig "The mother split the twig" Zak4-ma1 ic4ke1 ta3nak1-ma 1 2 phrò'1 ük3tá1 split-PST husban...

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ic4-ke1 ğèm1 npl. couple, husband-wife

Lexember 1 zak 4 -ang 2 [t͡sa˩˥kaŋ˥] - v. 'to split, to separate, to cleave' Zak4-ma1 për4 ák3-me1 split-PST mother twig "The mother split the twig" Zak4-ma1 ic4ke1 ta3nak1-ma1 phrò'1 ük3tá1 split-PST husband wardrobe-PL OBJ clothes "The husband separated the clothes into the wardrob...

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑19 Nov 2023 01:56 Torch received.

Hey VaptuantaDoi, how has progress on the torch been proceeding?

Mándinrùh wrote: ↑08 Nov 2023 23:00 I must apologize; I've been feeling unwell again, so I've only gotten a little bit translated. I hope to be done some time next week, but I definitely won't be done by the weekend.

Hey Mándinrùh, it's been a bit over a week since you sent this message, how is the progress on the torch going?

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑05 Nov 2023 04:52

qwed117 wrote: ↑05 Nov 2023 02:59 ask a French speaker for more detail not me please

I once did ask a French speaker and they insisted that French had initial stress.

I should clarify, a French speaker who insists that French only has prosodic stress

How does stress-ogenesis work? Does it work like tonogenesis or can stress just spontaneously appear in languages without word stress? Tone and stress are linked and there's that but I don't think there's a true stress-less tone-less language. In cases where there's no phonetic word level stress th...

And even when we know which language is encoded in a script, it may resist decipherment. A case in point is the Rongorongo tablets from Easter Island. We know which language this must be - it can hardly be anything else than an archaic form of the Rapa Nui Polynesian language that is spoken by the ...

Oop, timing - just sent the torch to Jackk! I'll send it on to Mándinrùh instead. Apologies again for the delay, all, the timing on this just happened to clash perfectly terribly with a whole host of things. Don't worry about it yet, I haven't yet gotten confirmation from Mándinrùh that they will t...

Since we're drawing close to November, just giving advance notice that I will be unavailable from November 23-28, as I will be visiting family for US Thanksgiving in case I end up landing there. -- With current delays in mind, just wanted to know if you two are okay with switching, so that Mándinrù...

How developed does my language have to be? Can I still sign up? Can this be done over email? There’s no minimum for developedness but you should feel confident enough in your language and your abilities that if you had a short simple text you’d be able to translate it. Part of that comes from the l...

Yrusia wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023 23:47 Received! Starting to work on it now, though I'll probably be more productive once Yom Kippur is over

Hey Yrusia! one week check in just to see that progress is happening on the torch!

One final question: if there is a sentence that looks like it would be an idiom/saying, should I translate it literally? Oh, and this is officially the last time I will use Laakitlantu 1.0 for anything, continuing the tradition of all of my relay languages being scrapped / redone. You should transl...

Would I still be able to sign up? Preference would be for going near the end here, so as to avoid as much potential conflict with the preparations for my older sister's wedding on October 14th as possible. If the answer is yes, I would like to join with Atruozan as per the usual (it's finally an ex...

This is taking a lot longer than I expected, sorry! Just a notification to confirm that I am working on it. Hey Üdj, it’s been a week since the torch was passed, and I just wanted to check in on what the timeline for finishing your segment would be! As a reminder, you still have another week in the...

The first torch has been sent to loglorn! (formally as of September 6th)

It will still be possible to sign up for the relay, for any hesitant straggler, until this Sunday.

Thank you! Let the fun begin!

I'd like to (tentatively) sign up with Stách'í Góónína - hopefully before my classes start back up at the beginning of October! Great to see you, (I feel like the last time I talked to you was on the CBB IRC days, long long ago). If it works I'll try to put you earlier in the queue. There's a lot o...

I'm creating a proto-langauge for what are essentially sentient, anthro rabbits ~295 million years in the future. I want this language to have an overall softer sound, but I also want the sounds made to be plausibly made by a rabbit, assuming these evolved ones are not nose-breathers. This means fo...