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You should learn IPA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA This is useful if you want to make your own language if the new person doesn't know it. Been there, done that. I'm about 85% sure these are correct. I don't know what IPA has to do with glossing though? https://www.scribd.com/doc/275632...

That's called a blend word or portmanteau, not a ligature. Where has that term been for the past 10 months? That would've been useful for me to know an eternity ago. It seems that it happens in over a dozen major languages, and you're the first linguist to bring it forward to me. I mean... seriousl...

Periods vs. Hyphens vs. Underscores as I understand them: We'll be using this sentence as our example in Spanish and English Voy a vender mi- s perro-s. to_go.PRS.1sg PRP to_sell 1sg.POSS-PL dog- PL Voy a vender mis perros. I'm going to sell my dogs. One uses a period to indicate that one morpheme ...

There's no need to use stuff like 'DEF=The'. For one, you can just use etiher "the" or "DEF". If you must indicate both, use a semicolon the;DEF, and don't capitalize "the". = indicates a clitic in the glossing rules, a word that is grammatically independent but phonol...

For a test of the first paragraph then, is this better?

*EDITED This is a response to something in the thread "Poem - In the Dark - In Etihus," but I figured it would fit better here. This is because each morpheme in Etihus represents a family of related concepts which grants them multiple, flexible meanings. Additionally, the morphemes (all o...

For "quick brown fox", Etihus grammar demands the order is always: "Fox brown quick." In English, brown and quick are technically interchangeable as they both modify/describe fox as adjectives. But Etihus grammar does not see it that way, you have a fox that is brown (an attribu...

These aren't linguistic concepts that are simply allowed and can happen. They are fundamental to the grammar itself. What does this mean? Do you just mean that constructions like this are relatively common? Oh I see you edited your post. It isn't that they are common. It is that they are necessary ...

These aren't linguistic concepts that are simply allowed and can happen. They are fundamental to the grammar itself. What does this mean? Uh.... don't exactly how to explain that. It means what it means. Let's see, uh... Etihus grammar/morphology share some of the same rules and have similar ones. ...

Changing the order of words and morphemes is a small part of the language. Yoda can speak English with different word order and still be understood. Yes, flipping the order of morphemes in an English compound would give you different meanings, even if they don't make a lot of sense. Houseboat and b...

OK, thanks. So ' is an interfix, like in many compounds in Germanic languages? You might want to add that to your list of morphemes then... Ooooh... I suppose it is. Thanks! Would/Could you gloss an interfix as CONN? I went back to the list of glossing terms and didn't find interfix in there. Sí lö...

Glosses, please. I can tell there are for some reason no conjunctions, but I can't tell what all the hyphens and apostrophes are for... I'm going to try my best at this, but remember a few things: 1. I'm purposefully ignoring the glossing rule about morphemes. This is because each morpheme in Etihu...

clawgrip wrote:Interesting challenge, and difficult to translate to Yabushionese, but I've done my best.

Excellent! I didn't expect anyone else to try, but now I have a few glossing examples to follow (I haven't fully glossed anything and I'm still trying to figure it out).

So what? Every single one of these corresponds to an English piece of semantics and grammar. The only thing that differs is the surface realization, which is called surface for a reason. You do remember, right, that Etihus is an oligosynthetic language? I'm working with about 60 morphemes to flush ...

Lol, I was vacationing in LA. ... So to translate: 1. Syh'syh = [one word] "Girly girl", an effeminate girl 2. Syh-syh = [noun phrase] "Girlish girl" 3. Syh syh = [2 words] "Girling girl", girl acting or being girly as a state-of-being, "girl being girly".. on...

How about you do this poem, it seems to have many kinds of grammatical structures: https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/ich-bin-der-welt-abhanden-gekommen/ At first I was afraid because my lexicon is only up to about 750 words (plus maybe a few hundred more on variation) but it looks like mo...

*comments* Thank you. Sew'Kyetuh, everything you said in that post is utter bullshit. That is not a very good rebuttal. Your sources, please. Once you provide them, I can then have resources myself with which to read. Because I don't know you, I can't trust you as a source (you can't use yourself a...

Oh, and one more thing -- many of the things in language are inherently results of how human psychology works. You can't simply plug in another system of language that easily. In theory , so far as we might can tell. I understand Noam Chomsky laid a lot of foundations for that type of thought, and ...

This brings me to a question. Is there religion on Meer'Et? How many? Is atheism hated? Accepted? Beloved? How do the religions interact together? Are there multiple ideologies? Ideological splits (eg Mao-Leninist) Religion in Meer'Et? Absolutely. It's one of the primary focuses in some of the stor...

I read on the Internet that you're not supposed to say "second" with a /t/ sound at the end (although I don't really believe that at all), but I'm going to continue saying it that way, and even a godlike dragon creature thing would have to work pretty hard on me to get me to say it with a...