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- 04 Feb 2024 03:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369602
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The trouble is, I really like -g, especially how weird and cludgy it is after stops or consonant clusters. So I'm thinking of reintroducing it in these environments via analogy. Which option sounds best? 1. Have it be reintroduced by analogy, regardless of the new consonant cluster rules. 2. Have i...
- 25 Jan 2024 02:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 770
- Views: 220961
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Oh, I guess I misinterpreted your meaning. Apologies if I came off as rude.
- 24 Jan 2024 20:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 770
- Views: 220961
Re: What did you accomplish today?
The thread seems unamenable to slow, incremental, unflashy progress. No one will stop you from posting about it, though. [;)] However, I'm still feeling great about my increasing and ever-more cohesive tweaks to things like moods, temporal nouns, root patterns actually being attested, etc. There’s ...
- 31 Dec 2023 04:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Can we agree on that simplified Chinese is way simpler than English?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4268
Re: Can we agree on that simplified Chinese is way simpler than English?
I have locked this thread. Oligey, perhaps you should take some time to cool off and get a sense of the people here on the CBB and their interests. Then, if you want to make a new thread, you should choose a topic that doesn’t involve you enforcing prerequisites. It evidently leads to more frustrati...
- 30 Dec 2023 08:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Can we agree on that simplified Chinese is way simpler than English?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4268
Re: Can we agree on that simplified Chinese is way simpler than English?
I am happy to exchange opinions, but please make sure the following before participating in the discussion: Hi Oligey, I’m one of the site moderators. Since you’re new to the forum, I’d like you to read the House Rules , with particular emphasis on the first. You’re behaving more than a little rude...
- 19 Dec 2023 17:16
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Why is there no honey in the clay pot?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9984
Re: Why is there no honey in the clay pot?
Attempting a Faux Phrygian translation: Θί μέλιτον ου έσσι έν δοΰτρα (μελερίνα); Thí méliton ou éssi én doǘtra (melerína)? /ˈtʰi ˈmeliton uˈu̯‿essi ˈen ˈdou̯tra meleˈrina/ why honey-NOM NEG be.3S in pot-DAT (clay-DAT.F) Why is there no honey in the clay pot? Saying δοΰτρα μελερίνα rather than just δ...
- 08 Dec 2023 06:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369602
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
But as for the actual pronunciation though, that seems incredibly weird to me. Does your dialect reduce vowels to /e/ instead of schwa? Or does it lack the alternation between reduced vowels in unstressed syllables and for some reason realise <a> as /e/? In unstressed syllables, I have /ə/ and /ɪ̈/...
- 06 Dec 2023 19:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 770
- Views: 220961
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I determined that thematic adjectives and nouns in Faux Phrygian can be divided into five groups based on the stress shifts they undergo. While thinking about what to name the groups, I realized that I can just number them, because, by coincidence, each of the first five ordinals fits into a differe...
- 28 Nov 2023 22:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Which conlangs are you working on and/or still plan to work on?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1682
Re: Which conlangs are you working on and/or still plan to work on?
Which kind of Phrygian phonology are you using? Because some people say that Phrygian underwent an Armenian-like shift of the stops, while others say that it didn't. The Armenian-like shift. You can actually see an example in the endonym I provided (Greek pʰ g = Faux Phrygian b k). I find that hypo...
- 28 Nov 2023 17:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Which conlangs are you working on and/or still plan to work on?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1682
Re: Which conlangs are you working on and/or still plan to work on?
Besides Silvish, I’ve been working on two new conlangs lately. The first is an Indo-European language loosely based on Phrygian. Right now, I call it Faux Phrygian or βρουκικά /brukiˈka/. The early sound changes are similar to what has been reconstructed for Phrygian, but beyond that I’m using it a...
- 28 Nov 2023 01:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Which conlangs are you working on and/or still plan to work on?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1682
Re: Which conlangs are you working on and/or still plan to work on?
Besides Silvish, I’ve been working on two new conlangs lately. The first is an Indo-European language loosely based on Phrygian. Right now, I call it Faux Phrygian or βρουκικά /brukiˈka/. The early sound changes are similar to what has been reconstructed for Phrygian, but beyond that I’m using it as...
- 21 Nov 2023 01:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Words/forms avoided because they "look/sound" strange
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1008
Re: Words/forms avoided because they "look/sound" strange
Chiot “puppy” has no feminine form in French. I can’t claim causation, but that absence is probably no coincidence because the obvious feminine form, chiotte, happens to be identical to a (separately derived) vulgar word for “outhouse.”
- 10 Nov 2023 18:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 369602
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What happens to a script when two characters "merge"? (e.g. c and e in some people's handwriting in some contexts are written the same, or a and c) Are diacritics introduced? Are the differences between them intentionally accented and emphasized, transforming the glyphs in the other direc...
- 29 Oct 2023 18:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: It is possible to nasalize every vowel?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18207
Re: It is possible to nasalize every vowel?
One can nasalize every vowel? How do you nasalize things like /y/? Yes, any vowel can be nasalized. I’m not sure how to answer your second question, because you can nasalize /y/ in the same way you would nasalize any vowel; no special trick to it. The technical explanation is that you lower your ve...
- 26 Oct 2023 08:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 232
- Views: 73049
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
Aràukuàx x·masaúḳ z·rá láktal x·ḳaẓaṭa Ḷuìmtumraıá. [˹ɐˈ˻rɑvgvɑχ xmɐˈ˹sˤuŋ ʃrɛ ˈɬak˻tɐl ˈxŋɐd͡ʒɐtʼ ˈt͡ɬfem˹dɤmrəja] ru<àv>k-u-à-x xa=mas<aú>ḳ za=rá lákt<a>l xa=ḳaẓ<a#a>ṭ ḷu<ì-mtu>m-ra-ı-á choose<1.4>- DEO-CONC-VOL.ACT BEN =costume< PAT > GEN =this linguistics.department< OBL > BEN =party< OBL > gre...
- 10 Oct 2023 07:20
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 804
- Views: 202289
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I guess it’s not surprising that a big city would have a whole herd of museums, but it’s still striking to see so many listed so systematically in one place. That section on past and future museums is a neat idea. It's not complete, unfortunately - one I spotted is that they don't mention the Anaest...
- 29 Sep 2023 23:04
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is English a logographic writing system?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 45328
Re: Is English a logographic writing system?
I've never heard anything but /ˈvi.ə/ for "via". I know I say /ˈvi.ə/. Checked Wiktionary and it turned out one can rhyme it with "shyer" or "Mariah" Carey. Huh. For me it's always rhymed with how do you solve a problem like "Maria"? Perhaps the/ˈvai.ə/ pronu...
- 28 Sep 2023 09:27
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is English a logographic writing system?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 45328
Re: Is English a logographic writing system?
I only recently read my notifications after several years away, so sorry for the late reply. English is not alphabetic. It has a series of “phonograms”, as explained at this phonics website: https://phonograms.logicofenglish.com/chart It’s easy to confuse it for alphabetic since each phonogram cons...
- 26 Sep 2023 23:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 158
- Views: 110029
Re: Surprising cognates
In case nobody's pointed this one out, though they probably have... Don’t think anyone has. It’s fun to see them all laid out together! French: maillot , 'bikini line' Maillot is also a general garment word. It can refer to jerseys; with optional modifiers, it refers to swimsuits and undershirts.
- 08 Sep 2023 18:32
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 460
- Views: 207079
Re: Jokes
— What does a French person say when they’re starving to death?
— C’est la faim de ma vie !
Faim “hunger” and fin “end” are both pronounced /fɛ̃/ (and both take feminine agreement), so in speech, the phrase above means either “This is the hunger of a lifetime” or “This is the end of my life”.
— C’est la faim de ma vie !
Faim “hunger” and fin “end” are both pronounced /fɛ̃/ (and both take feminine agreement), so in speech, the phrase above means either “This is the hunger of a lifetime” or “This is the end of my life”.