alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
a problem: how to keep track of the fact that the analogue to the reconstructed proto-indo-european sky-god in this conlang's speakers' ancient religion is (loosely speaking) a trans woman when i'm not currently really recording facts about the culture of its speakers (except insofar as they might be inferred from the lexicon or sample texts)
solution:
nobihél (b-h-l): nf. a sort of priestess to Bihêl that will be so popular among tw if this setting ever develops a tumblr-analogue
awkward moment where i realized that a bunch of my derivational patterns violate my phonotactic rule against having a coda in syllables with long vowels
just saying that was not the best choice of examples to follow with the comment about some languages utilizing both
«English places adjectives before nouns, as in black cat, while a language like Spanish places adjectives after nouns, as in gato negro, literally “cat black.” There are a number of languages that utilize both orderings.»
yes, like, spanish. and english.
@Lady you should have included a “… well now i’ve backed myself into a corner” option on these polls
nice thing about triconsonantal-root and pattern morphology in this conlang is that every root gives me dozens of words. bad thing about triconsonantal-root and pattern morphology is ever root require me to decide what the dozens of words mean.
@Lady yeah seems reasonable. for 2 yeah the derived stems are indeed considered words (a speaker of the language would be aware of the root and pattern and what each tend to mean but the specific meaning of each combination has to be learned separately). so i guess i’ll go with not marking the root or pattern explicitly and glossing for the meaning of the particular stem. (if people need to know the root they can look up the stem in the lexicon)
@Lady kinda.
i think the main points i'm undecided about are:
- should i mark the pattern morpheme within the Midêkʰ text? is that worth the ugliness of ending up with "
gn-\<hi>m\<i>dkʰ\<í>-k" (glossed as perhaps "DAT(F)-word-PL")... - well, i hadn't thought about this problem before yours but, the question of whether to include a gloss for the meaning of the derived stem or that of the root or both...
@Lady do you have thoughts on notating Semitic-style triconsonantal root morphology in glosses
food
how common is plum jam in the US? i feel like i do not remember ever seeing it. here it is very common
is it making the same consonant twice in a row? is it a single consonant but longer? does it matter? who can say
i think maybe nobody in the whole world has ever been sure what exactly a geminate consonant is
possibly undesirable conlanging outcomes, bodily fluids
oops, maybe i should either not have chosen "p-s-ŋ" as the root for liquids and also decided to have most patterns for forming nouns insert "i" between the first two consonants of the root.
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@wallhackio @Satsuma i just have read the majority of the supers and ww2 marvel comics from the 60s. probably. i did skip most of the thor and hulk and all of ant man.
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@wallhackio sadly i don’t expect to be in your state this year
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@wallhackio the howling commandos were nick fury’s commando unit (originally) world war 2. probably some other time frame in the MCU. gabriel jones, dum-dum durgan, dino… i don’t remember his last name, rebel ralston, izzy cohen. entirely possible i got some or all of those last names wrong but i think the first names/nicknames are right.
el secreto de sus ojos in fact a pretty good movie
english translation
bad luck for my learning that the school near the apartment (and that we can hear every day) has a bilingual program, and the part we can hear is often the english part.
mala suerte para mi aprendizaje que el colegio cerca del departamento (y el que podemos escuchar cada día) tiene un programa bilingüe y la parte que podemos escuchar a menudo es la de inglés.
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Joined May 2022
