The CBB

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".

Kankonian has reached the milestone of 91,011 words. That's 9-10-11 words. Word #91,011 was Bristo , meaning "Bristo", as in the square in Edinburgh. And to balance it out, I created Aochalli (in Kankonian, Autshalli ), a square in the Durbenian city of Ambrao. Ambrao and Aochalli are both...

lurker wrote: ↑06 May 2024 19:18 What I want to know is why all the thread necromancy with this user’s threads? OP hasn’t been on here in over 10 years.

It started when I made a post linking Arayaz to Arpee's threads: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=330534#p330534

I don't think so. Oligosynthetic languages are pretty rare, from what I know. lsd's 3SDL is oligosynthetic, I think, but I don't know of any others on the CBB. And no famous auxlang that I can think of is oligosynthetic (aUI not being an auxlang). We used to have this poster on the CBB named Arpee,...

Set my Kankonian work aside for the day after kametwa, meaning kametua (a Povoian chocolate ball filled with crème and cocoa powder and covered with chocolate sprinkles). The kametua is Kankonia's answer to the brigadeiro.

Yep, the old CBB had an address at a website called Aveneca.

When I was 1% of the way through the wordlist, I did a calculation with how many new words I had added to Kankonian and predicted I would get about 22,000 new words out of that, ending up with 109K-110K Kankonian words. Now that I'm 10% of the way through, I calculated again. Going from 87,780 to 90...

I think it's great that you're writing a story in your conlang. Its grammar and lexicon will come to be developed in that way, to the point where you can actually say stuff in the language. Then the CBBizens can hold a Hóubenk conversation.

I have just reached word #6,089 in the alphabetical list of words from the IGCE corpus, "bombproof". That means I am now exactly one-tenth of the way through my wordlist! I have 90,686 Kankonian words now. Is it a coincidence that the number of Kankonian words is composed of the same arra...

I have just reached word #6,089 in the alphabetical list of words from the IGCE corpus, "bombproof". That means I am now exactly one-tenth of the way through my wordlist! I have 90,686 Kankonian words now.

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%22...

Do these strange creatures use a dozenal numeral system, perhaps? The yinrih from my conworld also have six finges (technically four finges and two thumbs) and use a base 12 number system. Yep, we have a discussion about that here: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=328231&hilit=octodecimal#p...

Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu. Oooo, <x> could look quite nice. I usually dislike it for /ʃ/, but as in this case I think it tends more towards [xʲ] it could work very well. Thank you! You're welcome! Glad to be of hel...

Arayaz wrote: ↑03 May 2024 02:07 I'm also thinking about romanization ─ I dislike <sh> here, and I've been considering replacing <ni> and <sh> with <nı> and <sı>. Thoughts?

Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu.

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑02 May 2024 20:30 I don't remember if I've asked this already or not, but can anyone tell me about how topic-prominence works in Imonda?

I'm just really curious how a topic prominent language works outside of Asia.

Here's a good post on it:

https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=32 ... da#p329472

Arayaz wrote: ↑02 May 2024 14:17 ỳlku nm. squirrel (sessile if dead)
ỳlku vi. to shoot a squirrel

fish -> Let's go fishing!
squirrel -> Let's so squirreling!

Zero-derivation bloodsport for the win!