Search found 3929 matches
- 11 May 2024 02:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 681
- Views: 175125
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Well, it finally happened. and one night it did. [:D] You know what this means? that you're immensely creative, yes. That and that Kankonian now has more words that Classical Yiklamu, but thank you -- thank you, indeed. When you have a fictional language spoken on a fictional planet, by a spacefari...
- 11 May 2024 02:24
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: The partner of the benefactive is...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 411
Re: The partner of the benefactive is...?
I've seen some conlangs that use the name "dedative case" for this . . . https://www.google.com/search?q=conlang+%22dedative%22&sca_esv=f6308176a63567fc&sca_upv=1&ei=x2s1Zu7cH9GS0PEPzdKHQA&ved=0ahUKEwiu3NSeyvKFAxVRCTQIHU3pAQgQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=conlang+%22dedative%2...
- 09 May 2024 05:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Today I learned ...
- Replies: 122
- Views: 102635
Re: Today I learned ...
TIL that the candytuft did not get its name from a visual resemblance to sweets. Rather, it was named after Candy, the older name for Crete.
- 09 May 2024 04:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 681
- Views: 175125
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Even if only for a moment as I dash between worlds, I would always stop to toss a coin to a person who has achieved something momentous. [:D] Momentous indeed! Does this prove anything? I would say the surpassment of Classical Yiklamu by Kankonian shows that imagination wins out over programming gr...
- 09 May 2024 03:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 681
- Views: 175125
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
I materialize on the floor, gasping for breath. "Hey, Khemehekis!" I call out. "I'm busy here, so I can't ─" *gasp* "─ stay long, but I wanted to pop in and congratulate and encourage you. Keep up the good work!" Hey, thanks, Arayaz! I knew you'd be there to congratula...
- 09 May 2024 03:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 681
- Views: 175125
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Well, it finally happened. At 6:44 p.m. Pacific Coast Time on May 8, 2024, Kankonian acquired its 91,592 nd word: Nizap , meaning Delta Cancri. I'll just say it comes from a language of a people who live close to Delta Cancri. You know what this means? It means Kankonian now has MORE words than Clas...
- 08 May 2024 01:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Cute Galaxy (Commentary and Collaboration Encouraged)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 278
Re: Cute Galaxy (Commentary and Collaboration Encouraged)
Did you call it Cute because Neko are kawaii catpeople? And Inu are kawaii dogpeople?
- 07 May 2024 17:39
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 804
- Views: 202308
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I will say that, for Lexember, I kind of "push" myself to come up with a number of different senses/meanings for each word, because I feel like, if I'm going to go to the trouble of making a post, I want it to feel worth my time, so to speak, and I feel like I'm somehow being more "p...
- 07 May 2024 08:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 770
- Views: 220989
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Upon creating dukdzhiph , the Kankonian word for "bytecode" that was borrowed from the Achel dukdibb , I finished my trek through the B-words on the IGCE corpus list. I now have 91,369 words. The 91,592-word milestone, whereupon Kankonian will surpass Classical Yiklamu in lexicon size, is ...
- 07 May 2024 03:48
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
- Replies: 149
- Views: 116613
Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Beautifully put.Salmoneus wrote: ↑07 May 2024 03:19 [I've noticed a trend in some modern YA-ish shows for everyone to act as though they're characters in a TV show about young people written by someone whose only knowledge about young people comes from obsessively watching TV shows about young people, and I find it offputting]
- 07 May 2024 02:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28482
Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
I'm a cat person, but I agree. The real clever animals? Crows. And dolphins. And octopi. Parrots are awesome too. I have the sapient species known as the parrotpeople on the planet Psittacotia in the Lehola Galaxy ("parrotperson" and "Psittacotia" both being LIE exonyms, obvious...
- 07 May 2024 02:15
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 338
Re: Look on my works, ye mighty, and dispair!
Pssst -- it should be "d e spair". I must once again curse English orthography. An easy way you can remember the vowel in the first syllable of "despair" is to think about the difference in meanings between "disparate" and "desperate", in which the first syll...
- 06 May 2024 23:37
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 338
Re: Look on my works, ye mighty, and dispair!
I always considered "black" to be a contronym. In "Black Friday"? Very, very good for the economy. In "Black Tuesday"? Very, very bad for the economy.
Pssst -- it should be "despair".
Pssst -- it should be "despair".
- 06 May 2024 23:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 681
- Views: 175125
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Kankonian has reached the milestone of 91,011 words. That's 9-10-11 words. Word #91,011 was Bristo , meaning "Bristo", as in the square in Edinburgh. And to balance it out, I created Aochalli (in Kankonian, Autshalli ), a square in the Durbenian city of Ambrao. Ambrao and Aochalli are both...
- 06 May 2024 22:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What would YOU do?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2581
Re: What would YOU do?
It started when I made a post linking Arayaz to Arpee's threads: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=330534#p330534
- 05 May 2024 19:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 28057
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
I don't think so. Oligosynthetic languages are pretty rare, from what I know. lsd's 3SDL is oligosynthetic, I think, but I don't know of any others on the CBB. And no famous auxlang that I can think of is oligosynthetic (aUI not being an auxlang). We used to have this poster on the CBB named Arpee,...
- 05 May 2024 05:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 770
- Views: 220989
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Set my Kankonian work aside for the day after kametwa, meaning kametua (a Povoian chocolate ball filled with crème and cocoa powder and covered with chocolate sprinkles). The kametua is Kankonia's answer to the brigadeiro.
- 05 May 2024 01:54
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What happened on November 18th 2019 at 18:41 UTC?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 310
Re: What happened on November 18th 2019 at 18:41 UTC?
Yep, the old CBB had an address at a website called Aveneca.
- 05 May 2024 01:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 770
- Views: 220989
Re: What did you accomplish today?
When I was 1% of the way through the wordlist, I did a calculation with how many new words I had added to Kankonian and predicted I would get about 22,000 new words out of that, ending up with 109K-110K Kankonian words. Now that I'm 10% of the way through, I calculated again. Going from 87,780 to 90...
- 05 May 2024 01:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 129
- Views: 6608
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
I think it's great that you're writing a story in your conlang. Its grammar and lexicon will come to be developed in that way, to the point where you can actually say stuff in the language. Then the CBBizens can hold a Hóubenk conversation.