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ieuan wrote:… I'm a monolingual Welsh speaker … I'm planning on learning Welsh.
Croeso i CBB! But wait … I suppose that first ‘Welsh’ was supposed to be ‘English’, given the language you wrote in?
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plathhs wrote:
ieuan wrote:… I'm a monolingual Welsh speaker … I'm planning on learning Welsh.
Croeso i CBB! But wait … I suppose that first ‘Welsh’ was supposed to be ‘English’, given the language you wrote in?

...that's what I get for writing my intro on my phone. Diolch! :P
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Adarain wrote:Yes, I’ve seen the German area. Btw, are you the guy who talked about Romlangs at the LCC? If so, we’ve already met, we quickly talked about the awesomeness of the Romansh word s-charpa :P
Sorry, I wasn't even at the LCC. But I also have romlangs - and one is developed just well enough for sporadic use.
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Hello, I'm bur_sangjun, more commonly known as Sam, from the UK. I'm also on the boat out of Reddit, though as one of the moderators there I'm responsible for shutting it down as part of the shitstorm, not worth going into the reasons behind it, anyway, coming here as Reddit appears to be slowly dying off now, not our community, but the site as a whole.

Anyway, the only Conlang I'm remotely known for is "Vahn", an Oligomorphemic (Oligosynthetic is such a terrible word) language based off of 37 primitive morphemes. It has one other speaker other than myself (named Arthur), and is designed to be more naturalistic than a lot of Oligo's (aUI, Toki Pona).
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Why hello there, par/sam/. I thought you were on the /siː biː biː/, not the /siː biː biː/ :P
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
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Hi, finally got the required courage to start posting here. People tend to truncate my username from the left to three to six characters. I have about fourteen languages under my belt, and speak about a sixth as many languages. I wrote most of my notes in an increasingly top-heavy pile of notebooks. To date there are about sixteen of them.

The only problem is, I don't actually know how to show you these things short of just giving you the scans themselves.

Otherwise, I think I would do well here.
Conlangs: EP (EV EB) Yk HI Ag Cd GE Rs, Ct, EQ, SX Sk Ya (OF), Ub, AKF MGY, (RDWA BCMS)
Natural languages: zh-hk, zh-cn, en
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Hi, Isoraqathedh, welcome to the board! [:D]
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Isoraqathedh wrote:Hi, finally got the required courage to start posting here. People tend to truncate my username from the left to three to six characters. I have about fourteen languages under my belt, and speak about a sixth as many languages. I wrote most of my notes in an increasingly top-heavy pile of notebooks. To date there are about sixteen of them.

The only problem is, I don't actually know how to show you these things short of just giving you the scans themselves.

Otherwise, I think I would do well here.
Hello Isoraqathedh!

There's nothing wrong with showing scans of notebook pages, and you won't be the first to do so! Though it might be wise to start working on some kind of digitization scheme...

I do have to say that writing in piles of notebooks is generally a strong indicator of a glossopoet who's been at this longer than about twenty minutes. I gave up on the pile of paper notebooks about twenty years ago. [O.O] If I may ask, how long have you been working at these fourteen languages?

Also, I very much appreciate how you are able to speak two and two-sixths languages! Not many people so boldly cast about sixths the way you do; for most folks seem more comfortable with halves or quarters! [xD]

Lastly, is there any meaning or story behind your name?
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Isoraqathedh wrote:People tend to truncate my username from the left to three to six characters.
Does this mean
Iso or
Isoraq or
Isoraqath ?

Or does this mean
Edh or
Athedh or
Raqathedh ?
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We usually call him Iso or Isora, even though the stress is on the ķa
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
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elemtilas wrote:There's nothing wrong with showing scans of notebook pages, and you won't be the first to do so! Though it might be wise to start working on some kind of digitization scheme...

I do have to say that writing in piles of notebooks is generally a strong indicator of a glossopoet who's been at this longer than about twenty minutes. I gave up on the pile of paper notebooks about twenty years ago. [O.O] If I may ask, how long have you been working at these fourteen languages?

Also, I very much appreciate how you are able to speak two and two-sixths languages! Not many people so boldly cast about sixths the way you do; for most folks seem more comfortable with halves or quarters! [xD]

Lastly, is there any meaning or story behind your name?
The first 15 notebooks are all A4 notebooks with 52 pages in them (book 14 has an extra 18-page-long appendix, and starting with number 16 I'm moving to 80-page notebooks), and I've been hacking at them for six years, give or take. Starting from Book 6, the scans are all backed up and tagged with enough metadata to make searching easy. It is however extremely annoying to scan the remaining notes, although I should do it soon as the spines are more cellotape than paper or card at this point.

The name is simply mashing some random syllables together until they sound good.

Also from-left means that people tend to give up spelling my name after the sixth letter. Like how in programming languages, (subseq "Isoraķatheð" 0 3) would yield "Iso", up to (subseq "Isoraqathedh" 0 6) → "Isoraq".
Conlangs: EP (EV EB) Yk HI Ag Cd GE Rs, Ct, EQ, SX Sk Ya (OF), Ub, AKF MGY, (RDWA BCMS)
Natural languages: zh-hk, zh-cn, en
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Adarain wrote:We usually call him Iso or Isora, even though the stress is on the ķa
I pronounce it [iːsɔ'rɑːqaθɛð]
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I'll reintroduce myself since I appeared here in 2012 and then disappeared shortly after, contenting myself with the manifold facebook groups.

I'm Fred, born and raised in Germany (yet educated and socialised in English), now living in the South of England, soon moving to the North of Scotland to study Computing Science, although my actual goal is eventually to become a priest.

As my signature tells you, I have language learning ADD. I get to roughly B1, then move on to another language; meanwhile, the old one deteriorates for lack of practice. This is why my Spanish, French and Irish are so pitiful. At least I'm keeping up my Swedish reasonably well. Unfortunately, the same syndrome affects my conlanging, and so my attention gets split and my progress is rather slow.

However, I now have one (Strathan) that's actually related to a different project, so I hope that'll motivate me to stick at it more.
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Ȝe spic Scots?
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
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Welcome (back), Friedebarth!

By the way, what do those letter + number codes some people use to indicate languages they speak mean, exactly (like C2, B1, A0, etc.)?
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L1 means first language (native language), L2 second language and so on.

The others are based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Eu ... nce_levels
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Prinsessa wrote:L1 means first language (native language), L2 second language and so on.

The others are based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Eu ... nce_levels
Well, yes, L1, L2, and so on are ones I'm familiar with, but I hadn't heard of these Common European Reference abbreviations before; thank you for the link.
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Also, A0 basically means «I know a few words». Fluency kicks in around B1-B2, and C2 means you're hardly distinguishable from a native speaker (but there can still be minor flaws. For example, I'm certified C2 in English, but I cannot really distinguish /s/ and /z/ and do th-stopping for the voiced dental fric. And sometimes I may use a word in a non-english way.)
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
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Adarain wrote:Ȝe spic Scots?
Aye, tho A dinnae uis the "Staunirt Scots skreivin" lik ye seem tae be - no maist o the time onyweys. A 'hink it's no a bad project at aw, but A masel wus taucht ane o the mony variant "naturo"/etymologico screivins tae stairt, an sae A jis fyne masel preferin 'at aestheticwise. As wel, maist o thae wha blethir Scots day tae day unnerstaun ye better in screivin whan ye uis ane o the "naturly occurin" wuns, onyweys. Which A spose is the main catch o a prescribit screivin.

Ah wel, in ma ain humbo mynd, diversitie's awways better 'an uniformitie, onyweys! In simlar veins, A dinnae uis ony o the prescribit screivins whit hae been creatit fir Ripuarian, ane o ma mither tongues, aither.
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C1 :gla: SCO
B1 :swe: SV
A1 :gla: GD / :esp: ES / :fra: FR / :gle: GA
A0 :fao: FO / :lat: LA
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Okay, just to clarify, I don’t speak Scots :P However, I know the guy who came up with that orthography (he’s got an account here on the board too). What I wrote is just information from his scots lesson he posted here :)
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
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