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We're coming up on 237,000 CBB posts! This one is #236,990. I expect I'll be asleep for the big moment, so would y'all keep an eye out for me? (I just enjoy number milestones like this, lol.)

lsd wrote: ↑15 May 2024 08:59 l¿k°k¿W‚Á6°cRk¿
(your speech about me necessarily whose thought seeing nothing but me...)
tell me about myself, it's the only thing I'm interested in...

Óasos tà ngùoka?
What do you mean?

[Unnamed] Nominal Inflection Nouns in this language inflect primarily for number. They may be pluralized with a prefix də- , but there is also a distributive plural məlaŋ- . The distributive plural marks a disassociation between multiple referents: in different places, acting independently, etc. ki...

The auxlang whose vocabulary is built from proper names - for example "watt" is "electrity", "bell" is phone etc. I used the last names of inventors and discoverers, but it can be any proper name related to that thing. The whole vocabulary? That seems quite unworkable,...

Kesshin wrote: ↑16 May 2024 17:57 Ao meaning "white hot lava" in Daas

Is that not two morphemes? Isn't Daas a language where every segment (consonant or vowel) means something?

I'm certainly a sweat factory right about now. Gulf coast summer has arrived. Mood. As someone whose favorite temperature is 70°F, summer is not kind to me, nor is my region's climate in general. Are you fine saying where on the Gulf Coast you live? We may live near one another! And I know a fair n...

All you people making first conlangs that are actually kind of language-like [¬.¬] Could not be me [¬.¬] [:x] Creyeditor, are those glosses ? Did you, like, already have knowledge of linguistics before you began? (My first "conlang" was called Hîmnà, and had almost exactly English's phonol...

The morpheme -ko, I termed Volitional, derives from a word that means (more or less) 'to want'. (I have to think how it affects person paradigms. Are the volitional paradigms more adjective-like?) When it combines with Realis form, it expresses votionality. syko 'willingly does'. When it combines w...

I've decided not to include evidentials in this language after all. I think the verbal system is already enough, and honestly, I'm a bit worried about working out their interactions with the moods. I might re-evolve them later, though.

How do you say "river"? Is it just suhakkak or do you only use that when you say you're going somewhere? "Let's see. If I wanted to say 'that is a river,' I could say 26) taa suhak . I would only say suhakkak if something was ... at a river, or ..." He furrows his brow. "Or...

[Unnamed] Verb Agreement Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , and agreement . SUBJECT sg/pl 1 -ṡu / -cu 2 -la / -(ə)ljə 3 -m * / -(ə)rr *unmarked in intransitive clauses OBJECT sg/pl 1 -ṡu / -cu 2 -la / -(ə)ljə 3 -m(ə) / -(ə)rr Reflexive: -nyung nyajamcunyung nyajə-m-cu-ny...

lurker wrote: ↑14 May 2024 14:11

• Furthermore, some anti-human slurs find their way into English. Caudally challenged sweat factory is a particularly colorful one.

That's a wonderful insult ─ it looks like it's straight out of Calvin and Hobbes! It does seem too long to be a regular-use slur, though.

My personal favorite weird world shape is an infinite flat plane. Because of the fact that gravity bends light, it would appear as though you were inside an immensely large sphere, and you'd be able to see parts of the word you'd never be able to reach. (Well, I'm not sure if you actually could, sin...

Aaaaaa ʒe wil harthle tekke lot in at, ennae ʒe giar'k ennou ha no interessent tunger for at scape ei sʒain. Ʒe kun nitte eurcisc, ut the wirth nittet is meir interessent en ats grammatik. Ahhhhh I want to take part in it so much, but I don't have any interesting languages for making a thread yet. ...

[Unnamed] Mood Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , and agreement . This language distinguishes realis (unmarked), subjunctive ( mə- ), conditional ( rru- ), and imperative ( ji- ) moods. The realis mood is used for factual statements. jinymiṡu jiny-mə-ṡu run- PRES - 1sg &...

[Unnamed] Tense and Aspect Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , and agreement . TENSE AND ASPECT This language distinguishes past (usually -gə ) versus present ( -m(ə) ) versus future ( -w(ə) ) in tense, and distinguishes nonpersistent ( -n(ə) ) versus persistent (usually ...

Hmmm. So kuŋ means "language," but it also means "we (exclusive) sense them"? And r̼ɔt means "tree," but it also means "some (singular ???) are the two of us"? And how do you have number inflections on an anaphoric item meaning "all"?

Khemehekis wrote: ↑14 May 2024 03:03 Well, thanks for that link, @Arayaz, even if it is in a language I don't speak. At least I speak Spanish!

No problem! If I had a lot of time I might try to translate the relevant section into English, since I have some limited Portuguese knowledge, but I doubt I have the time to do it.

Has anyone ever made a lesson/guide for Xavante? That'd be useful for getting into the mindset of a realistic OSV conlang. I did a quick look for resources, and all I found was this set of lessons , which is in Portuguese. On an unrelated note: while trying to navigate to this post, I got a few err...

:con: griushkoent (without script here) raeskoz. saroz. eksoz. /'reskɔz. 'sarɔz. 'əksɔz/ win-ITJ. PL-V-IMP-ITJ. plus-ITJ Congratulations! Come on! There you go! You have a suffix specifically for interjections? Or is the thing you glossed as ITJ an interjection on its own? Also, your post was the C...