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- 18 Nov 2016 08:01
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 431153
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Hi guys, I'm ilaeriu. I'm not really new to CBB -- in fact I've technically been on CBB since just before CBB moved to be hosted on this particular site six (!!) years ago. But I sadly gradually stopped posting and conworlding about five-ish years ago, until today I had a sudden longing for my old c...
- 30 Oct 2013 09:40
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 946
- Views: 266334
Re: You
Now that I'm back, thought I'd fill this out again since I've probably changed somewhat since then: Alias(es): ilaeriu, Nick Location: Vancouver, Canada Date of birth: 1995 Gender: Male Occupation: University student Interests: Nutella, conlanging/worlding (especially conscripts), languages and ling...
- 02 Sep 2012 20:25
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: What has been written must occur
- Replies: 62
- Views: 13670
Re: What has been written must occur
:kor: 쓴 것은 곧 이러날겠어야 됌니다. sseun geoseun god ireonalgesseoya dwaemnida sseu- n geot- eun god ireona-lgesseo -ya dwae-mnida write-PAST.ADJECTIVAL thing-TOPIC surely occur -INTENTIONAL.FUTURE-must must-FORMAL.HONORIFIC That which is written must occur. (Not quite sure how to conjugate into the perfect t...
- 31 Aug 2012 09:45
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: hases san|anai (Gotta catch them all!)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4072
Re: hases san|anai (Gotta catch them all!)
By the way, does anyone see any major problems with having 'them all' as being homophonous with 'everything/everybody'? If your language doesn't distinguish them grammatically, then there shouldn't be a problem. Filipino Tagalog doesn't really have separate words for those concepts, we use <silang ...
- 27 Aug 2012 20:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Poll: Best/Worst Natlang Orthography
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15386
Re: Poll: Best/Worst Natlang Orthography
I think the Welsh orthography is one of my favourites. I love how they use <w>. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt8b4r1oLK1qckgmgo1_500.gif But Korean Hangul wins by far - how I just love it! It's really beautiful. Greenlandic is cool, but that has more to do with how the language actually look i...
- 27 Aug 2012 18:59
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1013293
Re: Language practice thread
Oh, I didn't know about that first thing! Cool! My Korean buddy who I ask about stuff sometimes usually just uses <u> for it, the romanization he writes with is pretty hard to understand so I normally just ask him to write it in Hangeul. I just think it looks very visually unappealing, there's noth...
- 25 Aug 2012 09:35
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1013293
Re: Language practice thread
근데 좀 더 연습 피려한거 같요, 얘기할 수있기 전에 ㅅ.ㅅ geunde jom duh yuhnseup piryuhhanguh gatayo, yaegihal suittgi juhne But I think I need a bit more practice before I'm able to converse ^.^ I'm no Korean expert and I can't say much about the actual content of the message, but you should have 같어요, you always have to...
- 24 Aug 2012 09:50
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1013293
Re: Language practice thread
我在学习中文! wo3 zai4 xue2xi2 zhong1wen2! I'm learning Chinese! 歡迎你!來 這裡 跟我們練練看吧! Huānyíng nǐ! Lái zhèlǐ gēn wǒmen liàn liàn kàn ba! いらっしゃいませ! ここ に来て一緒に練習しましょうか。 irasshaimase! koko ni kite issho ni renshuu shimashou ka Welcome! Come practice with us here ! 谢谢! xie4xie4 Thank you! 근데 좀 더 연습 피려한거 같요, 얘기할 ...
- 21 Aug 2012 22:17
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1013293
Re: Language practice thread
我在学习中文! wo3 zai4 xue2xi2 zhong1wen2! I'm learning Chinese! 아직 너무 쉬운 문장밖에 할 수 없어도 진짜 재미있어요ㅅ.ㅅ 앞으로 더 많이 공부 하고 싶어요. 그리고, 한국의 어휘는 중국어세서 많이 빌었으니까 저의 한국어 어휘 좋아지고 있어요! Although I still can't do anything but simple sentences it's really fun ^.^ I want to study more in the future. Also, because Korean vocabu...
- 21 Aug 2012 08:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Rosetta Stone Software: Yes or No?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3938
Rosetta Stone Software: Yes or No?
So I just torrented Levels 1-3 of Rosetta Stone for Mandarin, and I have to admit that it's not bad at all. (Please don't comment on the fact that I torrented it - please take the piracy wars to another thread, thanks :D) I'm learning vocab pretty quickly, quicker than if I just studied lines of tex...
- 12 Jul 2012 07:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The worst sounding natlang ever
- Replies: 234
- Views: 51505
Re: The worst sounding natlang ever
Someone at wikipedia has humour. It must be said: the worst sounding natlang has to be the Anal language, which, as Wikipedia helpfully tells us, is not to be confused with the Anus language. The first sample vocabulary on the "Anal" page is 'deep hole' I think I'm actually tearing (as in...
- 24 Jun 2012 08:39
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Affixes hatred
- Replies: 105
- Views: 22645
Re: Affixes hatred
(I hope you don't mind if I re-do the Korean.)
소년이 나무 주위에서 달리고 공을 찼어요.
sonyeon-i namu juwi-eseo dalli-go gong-eul chass-eoyo
girl-SUBJ tree around-LOCATION.ACTION run-and ball-OBJ kick-PRES.POLITE
The girl ran around the tree and kicked the ball.
6 words, 17 syllables. Heavily agglutinative.
소년이 나무 주위에서 달리고 공을 찼어요.
sonyeon-i namu juwi-eseo dalli-go gong-eul chass-eoyo
girl-SUBJ tree around-LOCATION.ACTION run-and ball-OBJ kick-PRES.POLITE
The girl ran around the tree and kicked the ball.
6 words, 17 syllables. Heavily agglutinative.
- 30 Mar 2012 09:20
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The man sees the woman using the telescope.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16777
Re: The man sees the woman using the telescope.
Pretty sure there can be no ambiguity when written in Korean. In the first example, the particle -로 is added onto the noun "telescope" which I'm pretty sure is some sort of instrumentative marker, instead of using the word "using". In the second example, the "woman using the...
- 30 Mar 2012 09:11
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: My mother made me supper for my birthday.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3492
Re: My mother made me supper for my birthday.
저의 생일로, 어머님이 식사를 만들었어요.
jo-ye saengil-lo omonim-i shiksa-reul mandeur-osso-yo
1PS-POSS birthday-for mother-SUBJ dinner-OBJ make-PAST-HONORIFIC
Nothing too funky going on here.
jo-ye saengil-lo omonim-i shiksa-reul mandeur-osso-yo
1PS-POSS birthday-for mother-SUBJ dinner-OBJ make-PAST-HONORIFIC
Nothing too funky going on here.
- 16 Mar 2012 09:52
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1013293
Re: Language practice thread
저는 코끼리임니다. 반가워요.Theta wrote:Wičhaša heníčha šni ki slolyáye ȟča he?Visinoid wrote:Arraina bat naiz. :3
I'm a fish.
Diné doo ánítʼé da éí nił bééhózinísh?
Anh thì chắc chắn không là một người không?
Are you sure you aren't a person?
I'm an elephant. Nice to meet you.
- 09 Mar 2012 01:54
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: I don't drink alcohol
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4425
Re: I don't drink alcohol
I don't think the ambiguity is retained in Korean. 종교적인은 이유는 술 마실 수 없어요. religious-ADJ reason-ADJ alcohol drink can't "I can't drink alcohol-that-is-for-religious-reasons." The adjectival system works by tacking on the dependent clause onto the front of the noun, so instead of saying "...
- 09 Mar 2012 01:33
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1013293
Re: Language practice thread
그거 영화이나요? 아니면 TV에 있나요?
Is that a movie? Or is it on TV?
Is that a movie? Or is it on TV?
- 12 Feb 2012 10:20
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Are your main conpeople human or of a different species?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 46995
Re: Are your main conpeople human or of a different species?
Theres a good eight or nine "races" in my conworld, with one of them being human. I guess you could call them the "main" race, since the period of history I'm fleshing out right now has one of the human empires in control of much of the world. After humans, the next closest race ...
- 12 Feb 2012 00:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2053826
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
One single monosyllabic CV word is enough to make you ask that question? [:S] You never know, you know? That's actually just a rather odd coincidence; I haven't really smoothed out the vocabulary of the lang yet, and as of now, /bi/ has no set meaning. I chose "rain" and "to rain&quo...
- 11 Feb 2012 07:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2053826
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I might be butting in on a discussion, but is a vowel inventory of /i e ɜ ɑ ʏ ɔ o ɒ/ to unnatural for a lang to have? The last four are occurred through a process where, for example, /i/ morphed to /i:/ to indicate a verb for which a noun root already exists (as in /bi/- rain, and /bi:/-to rain, ra...