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Is ye Pfårgnor smïccjll, gæ!
[be.3SG DEF.NEU pig_flesh taste-PFT.ADJ, yes]

Pork is tastable, yes!

MAJOR PROMETHEUS SPOILAGE below Hey PIE (not pie, though I'm a fan of that, too) fans: In the film Prometheus , there is a line of Proto-Indo-European used when the android David tries to communicate with the Engineers. [Frankly, I don't understand how a majorly advanced space-civilization billions ...

Coptic (Sahidic) - NIM ЄPNTK; / nim e.rən.tək/ [INT be called.2sg.m.REFL] NIM ΠЄ ΠЄKPAN; / nim pe pek.rɒn/ [INT BE.sg.m DEF.2sg.m.name] AϢ ΠЄ ΠЄKPAN; / aʃ pe pek.rɒn/ [INT BE.sg.m DEF.2sg.m.name] What's your name (m)? NIM ΠЄ ΠЄPAN; / nim pe pek.rɒn/ [INT BE.sg.m DEF.2sg.f.name] AϢ ΠЄ ΠЄPAN; / aʃ pe ...

:con: Martian (Helene Smith) - Ké né che viniâ? /kɛ nɛ ʃe væ̃ .ɳɒ/ [INT be-3sg 2sg-POSS.m name] What is your name? êzi viniâ né Cêné Misaïmé. /ɛ.zi væ̃.ɳɒ nɛ sɛ̃.nɛ mi.zɒ.i.mɛ/ [1sg-POSS name be-3sg beautiful.f flower] my name is Beautiful Flower. Tès, ké né bi viniâ? /te, kɛ nɛ bi væ̃.ɳɒ / [DEM.m.s...

Me gusta mucho el té y el café.
I like tea and coffee a lot.

Pero el café de Arka es el mejor café de todos.
But Arkan coffee is the best of all.


Sin embargo, hay que esperar largo tiempo mientras que se cuela.
You have to wait a while, however, while it brews.

How could I have forgotten! Marvellous!

ON egg = Go *addi (NOM.PL addja attested) and Crimean Gothic ada.


Your synthesis of these Glossotectonics will be SA-WEET - Excellent, Ralph!

Oh yes, about the food. What are three other foods (grains, fruits, vegetables, tubers, nuts, game) that these folks eat? Since they grow corn and tomatoes, do they concoct dishes similar to the gustatory pleasures of corn bread, tomato pie, tomato omelet, quiche, corn tortillas, piki bread (google ...

Did you mention the name of this world in the tongue of the Amjati and/or Inyauk? Does this world habe any moons? If so, how many? If someone had to travel very far in a short amount of time (not on foot), how could they do it on this world? By boat, on mammoth or how else? You mentioned that they u...

A moss-garden that grows into a world - How incredibly deep and beautiful and Zen! I would love to walk barefoot in that world. Questions- the Cats live in one hemisphere, and the Salamanders in the other. Was there a war or something that divided them? You say that the Cats resemble humans in physi...

Tocharian isn't especially "european", but it does have an undeniable "Indo-" character to it.

Shrdlu - Sure: TOBAPHA means "merchandise" or "vendible stuff". Not exactly, factory, but maybe what's inside. [;)] lsd - Ya pegged me! Reading your post gave me the same sort of Aha! moment when I first heard Cityspeak in Blade Runner . It's like you were channelling Gaff! [:D]

Ralph, The following was found in Loprieno's Egyptian: an Introduction , Crum's Coptic Dictionary , and Budge's Hieroglyphic Dictionary . There are digitized versions of the latter two, so you can refer. Here's an example of the combination of fortition and affrication from Coptic, specifically Sahi...

Ah, Fortition, Ralph! You seek Fortition!! It's not as frequent as the more common lenition (weakening), but very cool! So, ya wanna go from d < [dʒ] first. This reminds me of the sound change (affrication) of [di] in diurnus to become [dʒ] in giorno in Italian and [ʒ] in jour in French. The next, d...

Conversely, a language like Greek has these marvellous little particles that help set up that kind of context. I refer to men...de . :grc: Ancient Greek - οἱ μὲν πρόεδροι, οἱ δὲ τύραννοι /hɔ men ‘prɔ.e.drɔj // hɔ de ‘ty.r:ɒ.nɔj/ As soon as an Ancient Greek hears the "μὲν" involved, (s)he k...

Piggybacking on what Micamo said, if this is an idiom we're trying to translate, it's not going to obtain. Most folks are decoding word for word, but are they getting at the implied meaning. I think Micamo's post gets closer to what's at stake. It also reminds me of what my old friend's mom, Mrs. Sh...

Ossicone wrote:

Él es el más alto de los niños.

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O tambien-

Es el niño más alto (de todos).

:esp: Español- Hace frío. Hace calor. Llueve \ está lloviendo \ cae la lluvia está nevando \ cae la nieve Hace sol \ el sol brilla NB: you can also say nieva for "it's snowing", but the hispanohablantes I know almost always used the progressive form, or caer + la nieve (esp. for the past t...

:con: Sadraas - Næghen is ye Ötrlegdz Shunstoue! /næ.xən is je ɔj.tɝ.legʦ çyn.stoʊ.wə/ [ Near be-3sg DEF.n.sg summer-GEN sun.place] The Summer Solstice is nigh! OR Næghen is ye Ötrjole! /næ.xən is je ɔj.tɝ.jɔ.lə/ [ Near be-3sg DEF.n.sg other.christmas] Anderchristmas is nigh! {In the future conworld...

No hay problema -

Sadraas -

Callðe mj nej!
/ʦɒl.ðə mɪ nɛj/
Kill-2sg 1sg-OBJ NEG
Kill me not!


Moja på Tvoja-
Davaj ju ikke moja slagom!
/da.vaj ju i.k:e mo.ja sla.gom/
[JUSS 2SG NEG 1SG strike-INF]

Please, don’t strike me!

Ita vere; de gustibus non est disputandum.

Quite so; there's no arguing about tastes.


lingua islandica mihi quoque placet.
gomul íslensk hugnar mer.

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