The CBB

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.

Yep, the old CBB had an address at a website called Aveneca.

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...

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.

I have just reached word #6,089 in the alphabetical list of words from the IGCE corpus, "bombproof". That means I am now exactly one-tenth of the way through my wordlist! I have 90,686 Kankonian words now. Is it a coincidence that the number of Kankonian words is composed of the same arra...

I have just reached word #6,089 in the alphabetical list of words from the IGCE corpus, "bombproof". That means I am now exactly one-tenth of the way through my wordlist! I have 90,686 Kankonian words now.

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%22...

Do these strange creatures use a dozenal numeral system, perhaps? The yinrih from my conworld also have six finges (technically four finges and two thumbs) and use a base 12 number system. Yep, we have a discussion about that here: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=328231&hilit=octodecimal#p...

Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu. Oooo, <x> could look quite nice. I usually dislike it for /ʃ/, but as in this case I think it tends more towards [xʲ] it could work very well. Thank you! You're welcome! Glad to be of hel...

Arayaz wrote: ↑03 May 2024 02:07 I'm also thinking about romanization ─ I dislike <sh> here, and I've been considering replacing <ni> and <sh> with <nı> and <sı>. Thoughts?

Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu.

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑02 May 2024 20:30 I don't remember if I've asked this already or not, but can anyone tell me about how topic-prominence works in Imonda?

I'm just really curious how a topic prominent language works outside of Asia.

Here's a good post on it:

https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=32 ... da#p329472

Arayaz wrote: ↑02 May 2024 14:17 ỳlku nm. squirrel (sessile if dead)
ỳlku vi. to shoot a squirrel

fish -> Let's go fishing!
squirrel -> Let's so squirreling!

Zero-derivation bloodsport for the win!

Arayaz wrote: ↑01 May 2024 17:28

Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 May 2024 17:20 This sounds like a replacer.

Hmm, a replacer is a filler-scrapper? Sounds a bit like me.

Another type that's a mix of filler and scrapper is the remapper!

Flavia wrote: ↑01 May 2024 17:25 It's probably midway between replacer and perfectionist. I don't remake the language completely different right away, it's like Ship of Theseus.

Ah, if it's like the Ship of Theseus, that sounds like a perfectionist.

I'm more of a perfectionist or whatever that's called in Khemehekis's typology. I scrapped Abaniscen multiple times and remade it, and the only thing the versions have in common is a single syntactical feature. And doing that actually helped me make "better" conlangs later. So maybe it's ...

For Honesty Day, two songs about presidents who lie.

"The Bush Lie Song"

"Would Trump Lie to Me?"

Today I created the ya ya nang, a red flower of Chatony that grows on graves, Chatony being where the nila bioswath (Dorsals) live. It's my first non-animal creation for that planet and bioswath. I needed the word to provide an etymon for "vulture", as in one who profits from another's/ot...

Just wow. I'm going to repeat what I, as an anthropologist of scrappers and other conlanging types, said in March: It's in the nature of the scrapper to find that one fatal flaw with each of his/her languages, be it a logistical, proof-of-concept, or strictly aesthetic flaw. Maybe Ruykkarraber can b...

Just realized that I reached word #90,210 -- as in Beverly Hills! The word was blumia , meaning "bindery, bookbindery". Blum is a verb meaning "to bind", like binding books, and -ia is a suffix for place words, including Kankonia itself (unlike the Indo-European suffix -ia, thoug...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑30 Apr 2024 01:21

Khemehekis wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024 03:32 Today I learned a new replacement pun: alief.
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/alief

Did you ever hear of Alief Texas?

I'd heard of Nacogdoches, Palestine, Plano, Highland, and Pearland. But never Alief.