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by DesEsseintes
14 Mar 2024 16:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Replies: 27
Views: 786

Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber

Charming thread of conversation. This is basically how I read it:
"Mark Rosenfelder is WRONG and doesn't understand transitivity because he called intrans subjs Experiencers!!! I also hate all his conlangs!!!!"
But idk. I’m just strange like that.
by DesEsseintes
18 Dec 2023 05:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Speedlanging Challenge XI during the Christmas holiday
Replies: 21
Views: 1694

Re: Speedlanging Challenge XI during the Christmas holiday

I’m gonna try to participate using a generator and probably ignoring the constraints. :mrgreen:
by DesEsseintes
17 Dec 2023 11:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155271

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

/p t t͡ʃ k/ p t ch k /f s/ f s /m ɾ w/ m r w /a e i o/ a e i o All consonants except /ɾ w/ can occur geminate. Onset clusters include /ps ks/ and some Cw clusters but not much else. /s/ palatalises to /ʃ/ sh before /i/. Words cannot start in coronals /t s ɾ/ Words can end in any vowel, or one of /t...
by DesEsseintes
16 Dec 2023 08:13
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155271

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

/p t t͡ʃ k/ p t ch k /f s/ f s /m ɾ w/ m r w /a e i o/ a e i o All consonants except /ɾ w/ can occur geminate. Onset clusters include /ps ks/ and some Cw clusters but not much else. /s/ palatalises to /ʃ/ sh before /i/. Words cannot start in coronals /t s ɾ/ Words can end in any vowel, or one of /t͡...
by DesEsseintes
15 Nov 2023 15:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Project K
Replies: 8
Views: 2393

Re: Project K

Imralu wrote: 15 Nov 2023 01:08
Corphishy wrote: 13 Nov 2023 07:11/ŋ/ cannot occur in onset position.
... which is unsurprising as it doesn't exist.
I laughed.
by DesEsseintes
15 Nov 2023 13:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Large Inventories
Replies: 5
Views: 431

Re: Large Inventories

My conlang TLFKAT had several iterations where the consonant segments numbered nearly a hundred. I believe this version contained 101 consonants?

I should go back to working on it.
by DesEsseintes
26 Oct 2023 18:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155271

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Inspirations: Tlingit, Pali, Bengali /t c k kʷ/ t c k kw /tʰ cʰ kʰ kʷʰ/ th ch kh kwh /d ɟ g gʷ/ d j g gw /ɾ j w/ r y w /ɾ̥ j̊ w̥/ rh yh wh /h/ h /a e i o u/ a e i o u /aː eː iː oː uː/ aa ee ii oo uu /ai̯ au̯ ei̯ eu̯ oi̯ ou̯/ ai au ei eu oi ou Lovely. What do you plan to do with ìt morphologically? ...
by DesEsseintes
16 Oct 2023 14:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155271

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Latest toy thing. I apologise for the lazily spaced table. m n ɲ ŋ pʰ p b tʰ t d kʰ k g ɸ θ ð s z ʃ ɣ h w l̥ l j The vowels - untabulated (I’ve no standards these days) - are: a ɛ ei i ɔ ou u ʌ ɤi ɯ Syllable structure is (C)V-ish, but syllables can be nasalised. glottalised or post-aspirated (read: ...
by DesEsseintes
03 Oct 2023 13:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207029

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I lost sleep adding o to Apwapɨrɨng. Please elaborate! It’s not very interesting I’m afraid. Apwapɨrɨng is a language with two phonemic vowels /a ɨ/ and much allophony which thus far had only yielded the graphemes a i ɨ u . I’ve now decided verbs starting in /wɨ/ wu- when combined with the prefixes...
by DesEsseintes
02 Oct 2023 14:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207029

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Üdj wrote: 08 Sep 2023 16:54 Cleared up the mess that is Hánásö plural marking. Also gave it a name.

Here are some examples of regular plural marking:

ano → ásánó
[…]
ngosyo → tökosyo
Lovely!
I have a disproportionally large number of CVssV words.
This is the opposite of a bad thing.
by DesEsseintes
01 Oct 2023 14:11
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193757

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Knox Adjacent wrote: 30 Sep 2023 20:05 Betty left, but at least I can get back to conlanging more.
Who is Betty?
by DesEsseintes
24 Sep 2023 07:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207029

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I lost sleep adding o to Apwapɨrɨng.
by DesEsseintes
11 Sep 2023 15:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What do you do when a conword happens to match a slur?
Replies: 12
Views: 779

Re: What do you do when a conword happens to match a slur?

I wouldn’t do anything. A word the spelling or pronunciation of which happens to appear similar to that of a slur or expletive or embarrassing body part noun in another language is bound to occur in almost any language, constructed or otherwise. A string of sounds without intent to offend or harm is...
by DesEsseintes
24 Aug 2023 12:38
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Audio Relay I (Half way done!)
Replies: 102
Views: 35061

Re: CBB Audio Relay I (Sign ups)

This sounds amazing and I would love to take part in something like this one day, but I’m pretty sure my present circumstances won’t allow it. I will be following though and really look forward to seeing the results of this! quick observation: the torches will need to contain somewhat detailed desc...
by DesEsseintes
23 Aug 2023 14:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Audio Relay I (Half way done!)
Replies: 102
Views: 35061

Re: CBB Audio Relay I (Sign ups)

This sounds amazing and I would love to take part in something like this one day, but I’m pretty sure my present circumstances won’t allow it. I will be following though and really look forward to seeing the results of this! quick observation: the torches will need to contain somewhat detailed descr...
by DesEsseintes
13 Aug 2023 15:58
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155271

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

VaptuantaDoi wrote: 12 Aug 2023 06:33 Something sillycool
Love this! [<3]
by DesEsseintes
11 Aug 2023 03:09
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207029

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Khemehekis wrote: 09 Aug 2023 21:59 Yeah, that was what I thought, since Andy Warhol famously painted Campbell's soup. But moving the aitch two spaces earlier is a pretty strange misspelling (especially since we pronounce the /h/ after the R).
I’ve heard L1 speakers pronounce it with silent h.
by DesEsseintes
15 Jul 2023 09:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207029

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I'd hesitate to call this an "accomplishment", but according to my user profile, I apparently created this account and joined the CBB at 5:09pm (UTC−04:00) on July 12th, 2013 - exactly 10 years ago. [:D] Also, it looks like this is my 10000th post. Congratulations! I believe we joined aro...
by DesEsseintes
11 Jul 2023 14:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Euta language
Replies: 37
Views: 15151

Re: Twinga language

Omzinesý wrote: 11 Jul 2023 09:28 It seems that my langs last around a week.
Felt.
by DesEsseintes
24 Jun 2023 10:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347263

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So, my current project has no grammatical tense. Time is marked via a combination of particles, mood, and aspect. However, despite having to tense marking, verbs are still conjugated for aspect and mood. Is this too weird? It is not at all weird. Many languages have more developed aspectual systems...