The CBB

Visions1 wrote: ↑25 May 2024 01:20

lurker wrote: ↑16 May 2024 23:08 How about were-humans? Humans that just turn into another human during the full moon.

Still powerful. Imagine having two identities, just like that. Perfect for espionage, crimes, existential crises...

If you can custom-design your alternate form, could be nice for trans folks as well!

"Khaþ ota?" he says, cocking his head to the side. "Do you mean 29) khayh otaklu? Or 30) khaþ otahak?" He claps his hands together once. "Whatever you meant, though, you're right. It's getting late, anyway. Come on, everyone, let's get back." The board's post #237,273!

2c2ef0 ■ ■ ■ ■ ( 6ca950 0111fd 424220 99a9fd ) Here begins ends my ramble. Haššáya W̌a! Hello! Lhvver Áéyidít, ne xuňáégawoluf. I've come to talk with you again. Lhfọvevier Elh eyieševo éweš, I don't know what I'll say, Erụụħangụjerụ a kụụw ụụħụjel ụụħụket. but I want to say something. Arskiilz Gvu...

I'd hate to see this die.

"Bi 'lesian' cananar," I say. "Lesian le?"

I would say that this looks like a pitch accent plus word melody system, which has definitely been suggested before for some natlangs. Oh, cool! Which natlangs? I find the terms upstep and downstep a bit confusing because they usually refer to tonal registers (the overall pitch level that tones are...

Tones The Kahóra tonal system is one of the following: A pitch accent system A misunderstanding of what pitch accent is The least naturalistic tonal system in existence There are four "tones" in Kahóra: The UPSTEP <á> ─ all syllables before it are mid tone, and it and all after are high. ...

I really should stop trying to be smart I was going purely off of my own internal compass of "this rhymes / this doesn't rhyme," which are calibrated to what I think is the modern English tradition (the one found in, say, rock music, or poems that people write for school). Most of your exa...

https://imgur.com/a/1EPlaDp idk if that works, but it should be like a thing showing how one talks about time in Hvednakpa. K, didn't work..... It worked, I think. There's an image there; I (and I assume you) just can't see it because of some other problem. Images on the board never display for me,...

Miscellany and Cleanup 2 Mountains, locations, timelines, relations LOCATION OF NJABAD *ə *ʌ → e / V[+front](C)_ ; → o / V[-front](C)_ I realize I've done basically exactly this in Njabad, lol. So Njabad's speakers might have contact with the Jóvojie. Perhaps I'll situate the Njabad-speaking island...

Upriver and Delta Xúuuatxia It's time to do diachronics again! CULTURAL BACKGROUND The urheimat of the Íouatxia is a bog and wetland environment along a large river and delta. The river is called kouxìbasáah , or "slithering river." In English, I'll call it Kouxibasaah, following the trad...

Y'all, I really messed some stuff up [m] is an allophone of /b/ in Xúuuatxia, and I've been getting its distribution wronggggg. I've gone back and corrected it, but ... ugh.

he hasn't (to my knowledge) actually written a grammar for Tžuro Sorry to bump an old thread, but he has ! Oops ─ I was somehow under the impression that this thread had been active relatively recently. More than likely, he hadn't at the time Ketsuban wrote this. Ugh, I feel kinda dumb for not chec...

UCOnceagain This time I'm hoping to finalize some things for UC1. *ahem* ETETAESU In the northeastern hemisphere of UC1, there is a medium-to-small continent called Etetaesu (from Xúuuatxia etek àesu "place of rising"). There are two distinct language families on it: a large family descen...

All right, I've decided to not write spaces between anything pronounced as one phonological unit. Each phonological unit has one stress, which means that unstressed particles next to the verb should be considered part of the verb. Thus rather than iyá yax, we have iyáyax.

I've actually done quite a lot of thinking about this topic, so I'll just leave my two cents on the table: In English, we actually can't rhyme most of our inflectional endings. Let me explain. The simplest proposed definition of rhyming is "they end the same way," which isn't very useful. ...

I like this. For some reason it's giving Tibetan vibes. I really like the compounding, too. What happens to the tone of the first vowel in a compound?

Maybe manti , referring to east, the direction of the rising sun and beginning of the day, can also metaphorically mean "beginning" or perhaps "before"? In that case, ni canar i lesian i manti nana tutu was instructions about how to form what I'm assuming is some sort of genitiv...

In a language with allophonic variation that is predictable but can be triggered by an affix, how should one gloss it? Let's say a language has a consonant that's [d] before back vowels and [dʒ] before front vowels. Then let's say we have a word ráad and a suffix -i on it. How would I gloss this: rá...

Um... ─ they point to their mouth ─ Barbarbarbarbar. Ni "barbarbarbarbar" canar. Bi "canar le" cananar. Plenty of infixes here, hm! That <na> seems to mark past tense, but it wasn't there with ni "barbarbarbarbar" canar . I do also wonder if it's reduplication, or actu...