Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

[lurker]

Commonthroat:

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G   sGJDF-qn rCF-0       g   rjGJ-Mr j   G   smrCB-0 
IMP mighty-2 behold-AUTH POS work-3P and IMP despair-AUTH

sGJ-DF: "strong" + augmentative suffix = mighty
rj-GJ-g: passive coverb + to work or to make Literally "that which is made" or "that which is wrought"
sm-rCB: un-, opposite + to hope. Not be confused with HrCB "hopeless"

[Reyzadren]

griushkoent (without script here)

xuabar arendaei.
/'ɣuabar 'arəndei/
checkout-V-IMP V-IMP-N-PASS-T3-POSS-A

[Man in Space]

griushkoent (without script here)

xuabar arendaei.
/'ɣuabar 'arəndei/
checkout-V-IMP V-IMP-N-PASS-T3-POSS-A

I parsed that as “checkout line (at a store)”
before I realized it was “check.out”.

[Visions1]

If it was black Friday, it'd fit the title.

[lurker]

If it was black Friday, it'd fit the title.

Not to drag the thread off topic, but I always thought "Black Friday" was a fitting name. I know "black" refers to being "in the black" financially, but the fact that people literally kill each other over sales on Black Friday lends a darker tone to the name.

[Arayaz]

If it was black Friday, it'd fit the title.

Not to drag the thread off topic, but I always thought "Black Friday" was a fitting name. I know "black" refers to being "in the black" financially, but the fact that people literally kill each other over sales on Black Friday lends a darker tone to the name.

That's an urban legend / folk etymology.

From black (“bad; ill-omened; marked by disaster”). Friday is an ill-omened day according to ancient superstition, so a Friday that was darkened by another ill-omen (such as being the 13th) or an actual disaster became known as "Black Friday". Philadelphia police applied the term to the day after Thanksgiving because the large number of people out shopping made traffic chaotic. Later, PR efforts purposely invented the incorrect, more positive "etymology" (which is a very popular urban legend and false etymology that was even in Wiktionary from 2008 to 2015) that the name was given because this day is supposedly the first day of the year on which retailers typically posted profits ('in the black') rather than losses ('in the red').

[Khemehekis]

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".

[lurker]

Pssst -- it should be "despair".

I must once again curse English orthography. I feel like, if a language has competitions dedicated to seeing who can spell the most words correctly, that's the surest sign its orthography needs an update.

At least this isn't Reddit and I can change the OP title.

[Khemehekis]

Pssst -- it should be "despair".

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 syllables are stressed with clearly pronounced vowels.

I feel like, if a language has competitions dedicated to seeing who can spell the most words correctly, that's the surest sign its orthography needs an update.

I participated therein!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... 834ab7eab/

I was and am James Landau.

[Znex]

Experimenting a bit with archaic Yorkish here:

Old Yorkish
Lit iþr auʒn uppai min uerk, i mattiʒ, oʒ biuesʒ!
Mod: /lɛit jər ɒːn pʰɛa mə wɛrk | jɛi ˈmati | ɒ ˈpɛif(ɪ)s/
look.IMP 2PL.POSS eye-PL upon 1SG.POSS.N.PL work | 2PL mighty | and tremble.IMP-REFL
Light your eyes upon my works, ye mighty, and tremble!

[Eivuhekoi]

Mist-Ashen
Ngeseselpa az mah eli títe zegui ol zusanli!

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Nge -se<se>lpa az  mah eli          títe zegui ol  zusan -li
NMLZ-make<PLU> 1SG 2PL be.important see  hand  two be.sad-very

See my creations you mighty and be greatly saddened!