The CBB

In Kankonian, I'd say it's vruis. This word refers to lint stuck in your urethral opening.

Furthermore, some anti-human slurs find their way into English. Caudally challenged sweat factory is a particularly colorful one. That's a wonderful insult ─ it looks like it's straight out of Calvin and Hobbes ! It does seem too long to be a regular-use slur, though. Yeah -- more like a "chee...

Here are a few subtle changes that First Contact has on the English Language: The words "person" and "people" no longer refer only to humans, but to humans or yinrih. The term "misanthropy" and related words shift meaning to refer to anti-human prejudice rather than mi...

Well, thanks for that link, @Arayaz, even if it is in a language I don't speak. At least I speak Spanish!

Has anyone ever made a lesson/guide for Xavante? That'd be useful for getting into the mindset of a realistic OSV conlang.

Today I added 21 new entries: bell pepper to go crazy, to go mad (insane) to go crazy, to go mad (excited) to go crazy, to go mad (angry) to go crazy, to go mad (with boredom) crazy, mad (about a thing) crazy, mad (about a person) fairy tale field trip glass eye glove compartment lima bean pinto bea...

Lamprian (Bright Way) doctrine combines tenents of pantheism and animism. They believe Starmaker willed the universe into existence and is the same as it at the same time both creating and transforming into a cosmic womb (star-womb) from which they brought forth the stars. They believe everything h...

Well, it finally happened. and one night it did. [:D] You know what this means? that you're immensely creative, yes. That and that Kankonian now has more words that Classical Yiklamu, but thank you -- thank you, indeed. When you have a fictional language spoken on a fictional planet, by a spacefari...

I've seen some conlangs that use the name "dedative case" for this . . . https://www.google.com/search?q=conlang+%22dedative%22&sca_esv=f6308176a63567fc&sca_upv=1&ei=x2s1Zu7cH9GS0PEPzdKHQA&ved=0ahUKEwiu3NSeyvKFAxVRCTQIHU3pAQgQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=conlang+%22dedative%2...

TIL that the candytuft did not get its name from a visual resemblance to sweets. Rather, it was named after Candy, the older name for Crete.

Even if only for a moment as I dash between worlds, I would always stop to toss a coin to a person who has achieved something momentous. [:D] Momentous indeed! Does this prove anything? I would say the surpassment of Classical Yiklamu by Kankonian shows that imagination wins out over programming gr...

I materialize on the floor, gasping for breath. "Hey, Khemehekis!" I call out. "I'm busy here, so I can't ─" *gasp* "─ stay long, but I wanted to pop in and congratulate and encourage you. Keep up the good work!" Hey, thanks, Arayaz! I knew you'd be there to congratula...

Well, it finally happened. At 6:44 p.m. Pacific Coast Time on May 8, 2024, Kankonian acquired its 91,592 nd word: Nizap , meaning Delta Cancri. I'll just say it comes from a language of a people who live close to Delta Cancri. You know what this means? It means Kankonian now has MORE words than Clas...

Did you call it Cute because Neko are kawaii catpeople? And Inu are kawaii dogpeople?

I will say that, for Lexember, I kind of "push" myself to come up with a number of different senses/meanings for each word, because I feel like, if I'm going to go to the trouble of making a post, I want it to feel worth my time, so to speak, and I feel like I'm somehow being more "p...

Upon creating dukdzhiph , the Kankonian word for "bytecode" that was borrowed from the Achel dukdibb , I finished my trek through the B-words on the IGCE corpus list. I now have 91,369 words. The 91,592-word milestone, whereupon Kankonian will surpass Classical Yiklamu in lexicon size, is ...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑07 May 2024 03:19 [I've noticed a trend in some modern YA-ish shows for everyone to act as though they're characters in a TV show about young people written by someone whose only knowledge about young people comes from obsessively watching TV shows about young people, and I find it offputting]

Beautifully put.

I'm a cat person, but I agree. The real clever animals? Crows. And dolphins. And octopi. Parrots are awesome too. I have the sapient species known as the parrotpeople on the planet Psittacotia in the Lehola Galaxy ("parrotperson" and "Psittacotia" both being LIE exonyms, obvious...

Pssst -- it should be "d e spair". 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 syll...

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".