For padparadscha

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I think I did OK. I hope I did better than last time. The essay portion actually came pretty easily, and it wasn't just regurgitating my previous HW essays-it was still a bunch of direct comparisons between English and Japanese, but it wasn't phrased the same, and I covered some stuff I didn't in the HW, like some more parts of grammar and the ( Read more... )

for padparadscha, stormeteller, et al.: LoCoWriMo

(I won't be participating. None of my conlangs have enough lexicon to write a sentence, let alone a story, no matter how crude.)

The first verb: yseul, "to commit adultery, cheat on, cuckold". Yeah, I know it's an odd choice, but I couldn't resist the cross-linguistic pun (slightly more obvious with the imperative ending -t).

Yes, this means that is now a vowel. Specifically, a compressed (semi-rounded) central close vowel. Orthography and phonology have been in flux ( Read more... )

I got this from steerpikelet by way of metaquotes, but my Latin is really rusty. Can anyone translate?

Numquam te reliquam
Numquam te sumissam
Numquam circumcursabo
Te deseritque

How would you pronounce "suffixaufnahme"?

I love you, Hanzi Smatter.

Words to the unwise:

"New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to 'beef with broccoli.' The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just ( Read more... )

Okay, following up on that last post. It was mainly an exercise in characterizing people's dialects. I was less interested in finding out which people considered "proper English" according to a standard than what people felt natural by ear ( Read more... )

Just out of curiosity, which of these sentences do people feel are ill-formed or "ungrammatical", and which are acceptable?

1. Is it yourself?
2. You need your hair cutting.
3. The beer here is lousy any more.
4. I ain't seen him.
5. I ran into Janet while enjoying herself.

Jst plāyŋ r̈ʊnd wð mī Ŋ̀lʃ Φn̊ēmk Æbjæd prajkt. Ī wund˞ f n̈ēwn kn figy˞ t ʊt wðʊt mī telŋ ðm hʊ t w˞ks.