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Mándinrùh wrote: ↑08 Nov 2023 23:00 I must apologize; I've been feeling unwell again, so I've only gotten a little bit translated. I hope to be done some time next week, but I definitely won't be done by the weekend.

Hey Mándinrùh, it's been a bit over a week since you sent this message, how is the progress on the torch going?

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑05 Nov 2023 04:52

qwed117 wrote: ↑05 Nov 2023 02:59 ask a French speaker for more detail not me please

I once did ask a French speaker and they insisted that French had initial stress.

I should clarify, a French speaker who insists that French only has prosodic stress

How does stress-ogenesis work? Does it work like tonogenesis or can stress just spontaneously appear in languages without word stress? Tone and stress are linked and there's that but I don't think there's a true stress-less tone-less language. In cases where there's no phonetic word level stress th...

And even when we know which language is encoded in a script, it may resist decipherment. A case in point is the Rongorongo tablets from Easter Island. We know which language this must be - it can hardly be anything else than an archaic form of the Rapa Nui Polynesian language that is spoken by the ...

Oop, timing - just sent the torch to Jackk! I'll send it on to Mándinrùh instead. Apologies again for the delay, all, the timing on this just happened to clash perfectly terribly with a whole host of things. Don't worry about it yet, I haven't yet gotten confirmation from Mándinrùh that they will t...

Since we're drawing close to November, just giving advance notice that I will be unavailable from November 23-28, as I will be visiting family for US Thanksgiving in case I end up landing there. -- With current delays in mind, just wanted to know if you two are okay with switching, so that Mándinrù...

How developed does my language have to be? Can I still sign up? Can this be done over email? There’s no minimum for developedness but you should feel confident enough in your language and your abilities that if you had a short simple text you’d be able to translate it. Part of that comes from the l...

Yrusia wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023 23:47 Received! Starting to work on it now, though I'll probably be more productive once Yom Kippur is over

Hey Yrusia! one week check in just to see that progress is happening on the torch!

One final question: if there is a sentence that looks like it would be an idiom/saying, should I translate it literally? Oh, and this is officially the last time I will use Laakitlantu 1.0 for anything, continuing the tradition of all of my relay languages being scrapped / redone. You should transl...

Would I still be able to sign up? Preference would be for going near the end here, so as to avoid as much potential conflict with the preparations for my older sister's wedding on October 14th as possible. If the answer is yes, I would like to join with Atruozan as per the usual (it's finally an ex...

This is taking a lot longer than I expected, sorry! Just a notification to confirm that I am working on it. Hey Üdj, it’s been a week since the torch was passed, and I just wanted to check in on what the timeline for finishing your segment would be! As a reminder, you still have another week in the...

The first torch has been sent to loglorn! (formally as of September 6th)

It will still be possible to sign up for the relay, for any hesitant straggler, until this Sunday.

Thank you! Let the fun begin!

I'd like to (tentatively) sign up with Stách'í Góónína - hopefully before my classes start back up at the beginning of October! Great to see you, (I feel like the last time I talked to you was on the CBB IRC days, long long ago). If it works I'll try to put you earlier in the queue. There's a lot o...

I'm creating a proto-langauge for what are essentially sentient, anthro rabbits ~295 million years in the future. I want this language to have an overall softer sound, but I also want the sounds made to be plausibly made by a rabbit, assuming these evolved ones are not nose-breathers. This means fo...

opipik wrote: ↑17 Aug 2023 09:49Puluwatese?

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...

an English-Conlang dictionary that contains only the words found in the text, homophones, and near-homophones Oh that is devious …this is going to not so much go off the rails as somehow launch itself into orbit. I should phrase that, less as a requirement, and more as a suggestion. It is probably ...

A couple of months ago I floated the idea of an 'audio relay' out here and on the discord, and received some general appraisal that it was an interesting idea. Today I propose the first ever CBB Audio Relay. For those who haven't ever done a relay before, it is a conlang version of the children's ga...

opipik wrote: ↑15 Aug 2023 12:53Chuukic?

I'd like to make a suggestion: what if we didn't include a sample of the language? This would allow better-known languages to be done, and may increase the accessibility of the game without outside resources. This is just an idea, but I think it could work well. There are like 10000 languages on ea...