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May 25th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
 | 05:29 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "W"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "W."
English .......... Torn Tongue
to wait .............. eto
to walk ............. ene
to waste ........... urde
to wave ............. orsho
to weigh ............ ifeme
to whip ............. igil
to whistle .......... irii
to work ............. eni
to write ............. are
Current Mood:  busy
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May 21st, 2012
fairylang
 | 07:05 am - Three Little Pigs Translation
I just posted a translation of The Three Little Pigs into FairyLang if anyone is interested in checking it out. http://fairylang.livejournal.com/35816.html
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April 27th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:34 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "V"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "V" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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April 20th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:50 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "V"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "V."
English .......... Torn Tongue
to value ............ eroi
to view ............. av
to visit .............. ilei
Current Mood: busy
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April 16th, 2012
james0289
 | 11:00 pm
Announcing my latest conlang's new, revamped web page! Now in glorious technicolor (well, the headings, anyway...) and with shortened, simplified text. I've also put it into Arial, which makes it a lot easier to read. Plus that little bit of prettiness at the top.
(The thing about the Basque monks is an in-joke aimed at members of the Zompist Bulletin Boards...)
Comments, suggestions, critiques welcome!
PS. I don't know what tags to put with this post, so I've just left them blank...
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April 13th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 08:35 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "U"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "U" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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April 6th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:45 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "U"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "U."
English ............... Torn Tongue
to understand ........ eleth
to undertake .......... ofel
to unite ................. enelo
to update .............. oness
to upset ................ ubar
Current Mood: busy
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March 23rd, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:34 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "T"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "T" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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March 22nd, 2012
sodyera
 | 10:24 am - Meme: Seven Important Phrases
IN any language I've tried to learn I've found I needed to know how to say some basic things:
Hello
Good-bye
Yes
No
How much is this?
Which way to the washroom?
Thank you.
For Yal Dawo, the answers are:
SyuMa (Hello), or Domss'a ("hi" between friends, lovers or family)
Domod'éä (good bye (formal)), or Doma (casual good-bye)
Taz'u Na, or simply "Taz" (yes)
VissNa, or simply Viss (no); also the negative sentence prefix Viyssan ("It/this/that is not")
Ko viëd'e TijNa ("How much is this (thing)?")
Ko viëd'e Ta'ezNa ("How much is that (thing)?")
Ko bian'a ej Adou Vrithet ("Where is (a/the) Washroom/Loo/bathroom?)
Dtoé Demass'i ("I thank you." (formal)), or Dema (Thanks)
Respond in your own LJ post and pass along to those you'd like to answer these questions.
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March 20th, 2012
mrsan95
| 10:22 am - introduction
Hello. I just joined. Right now I'm working on my main conlang, Vuladiu/Vuladian(in english). It's a romlang that sounds mostly like french and spanish but also borrows from italian, portuguese, latin(of course), catalan, romanian, german, russian, english(mostly pop culture stuff and and slang), and their ancestral Vúuradeian tongue. Some are borrowed from more than others. Apart from that, I also have many side projects. Some I work on continuously along with Vuladiu, some I work on on and off, some I work on once and then forget about forever.
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March 16th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:28 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "T"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "T."
( Read more... )
Current Mood: busy
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March 9th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:34 pm - Torn Tongue: Abstract/Miscellaneous Nouns Beginning with "S"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts, including Natural/Living nouns beginning with "S" and Technological/Concrete nouns beginning with "S." Here are some more nouns beginning with "S" in the class Abstract/Miscellaneous.
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Current Mood: busy
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March 2nd, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:29 pm - Torn Tongue: Technological/Concrete Nouns Beginning with "S"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts, including Natural/Living nouns beginning with "S." Here are some more nouns beginning with "S" in the class Technological/Concrete.
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Current Mood: busy
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February 24th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 10:38 pm - Torn Tongue: Natural/Living Nouns Beginning with "S"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "S" in the Natural/Living class; the other classes will appear in subsequent posts because there are so many.
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Current Mood: busy
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zireael07
 | 07:55 pm - Working on a dialect of drow for my world
I want to create a working language, based on drow and elven from FR and (maybe) on Tolkien's - I like the way Tolkien's languages flow.
My friends criticised the 'ss' that's so common in the drow. What could be put there instead of the double s? I thought of a single s, but that makes some of the offensive words ('ssussun' and 'ssinss' for example) sound almost like English ('susun' and 'sins').
Maybe I should put a th? Or what other voiceless sounds could I put instead of /s/ there?
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February 17th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:23 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "S"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "S."
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Current Mood: busy
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February 13th, 2012
fayanora
 | 11:55 pm - Why Arabic is great
Posting this because the article mentions that Arabic looks almost like a constructed language.
Why Arabic is great.
...don't fall for the bait and switch with Chinese or Japanese! They might tempt you with an exotic writing system, but after a few months you find out that the underlying language is pretty vanilla, and meanwhile there is a stack of three thousand flash cards standing in between you and the ability to skim a newspaper. Arabic, on the other hand, twists healthy minds in twelve ways:..
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dedalvs
 | 01:18 pm - Interlinear Plugin for WordPress
I don't know how many people use WordPress for conlanging purposes, but if you do, Carsten Becker (creator of Ayeri) has created a WordPress plugin that will automatically format interlinears. As someone who uses WordPress for conlang-related blogs, I found this quite exciting!
You can download the plugin and read more about it here.
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February 10th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 09:36 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "R"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "R" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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February 5th, 2012
fairylang
| 01:44 pm - 1,000 Words!
I just hit 1,000 words in a conlang for the very first time! (not FairyLang, another one, but I'm shooting for the same milestone in FairyLang by the end of the year) Yay!
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January 31st, 2012
sodyera
 | 10:55 am - D'al Thyann: My Cutesy Cat Picture
 Cat + Cat Toy ©2012 Ariel Cinii
It's a Soudti Sodyera, one of the flying cats from back home. Remember the children's book idea I had back around Lunacon last year? Very little material has come in as far as artwork. Hopefully, this étude will get us back to it again. The cat's about the size of a lynx or bobcat and the imagery that drifts in shows me at least four colour combinations: all white (or Dessel {mountain peak}), brown & orange tabby stripes with white on the bottom (common, or Abpëd'a), black & white (Dijav Parzen, a rare breed, I believe), and all grey (Belii {smoky}). There are probably others.
The cat toy is in the shape of a traditional prey, the To'esh Avoni, or Fool's Arrow, a prolific white bird about the size of a Terran starling. Red markings on their rear-facing delta wings and tail always point back where they'd been. It was believed that the Soudti Sodyera were genetically engineered to handle a severe bird population problem somewhere during the First Era {Seasons 01-334 in the Era of Hezdin. See: Flying Stone by Ariel Cinii: "When We passed through the Shimmering Door connecting there and here," }. Some insist the species was bred on the Fejia homeworld and smuggled across. There is no evidence of the species existing before the Era of Hezdin.
This is an example of how my past-life recall works. It's sort of an internal Socratic dialogue with my mental database, each answer revealing more bits of trivia. The image for this sketch popped into my mind's eye right before Meditation last night. The news came on at 5 and by 6, Jerné the art persona was done.I wish I had all the tools available to me now back when I started doing this in 1987. In the best-case scenario I can generate a post like this and just save it into my writting files intact, saving a whole lot of transcription time. I still haven't gotten around to writing down things I'd recorded on my iPod® back in the fall.
Current Music: The Kronos Quartet {pick something}
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January 27th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 01:30 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "R"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "R."
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Current Mood: busy
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January 21st, 2012
doranwen
 | 05:37 pm - Lexique Pro-related question - marking stem of nouns as singular or collective
I've been using Lexique Pro for a few years to organize my language's dictionary (and it's very handy to have indexing for English, Cerstan, and Cerstaní script). I've been going through my grammar and re-organizing (considering that I created it when I didn't understand quite a bit of grammar in general), and in the process came across my plural system. I have since decided to make a split system between singular/plural vs. collective/singulative/plurative. (I am not worried about creating any sort of history for my language--this is only for my personal enjoyment of writing/translating/etc.)
What would be the best way to mark the default form of the word in the entry? I have about 500 words in there so far, 180 of which are duplicate noun/verbs (I have a lot of words that can switch categories without any sort of marking--whether I should mark that in some way is another question altogether, and one I want to address at some point).
Example:
Let's take "baclís" (statue). All I have for part of speech is "n." currently. Should I mark it "n., sing." to show that the default stem "baclís" is a singular stem? As opposed to "críth" (wood) which is collective in default (should I mark that as "n., coll."?). Or is there a better way to mark which way the stem is by default?
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fairylang
| 09:55 am - Possession
What are some ways that a language can compose a sentence indicating possession? I've read that in Irish, the sentence "I have a book," is composed "There is a book at me," so you don't necessarily need a verb for "to have," but what other kinds of constructions are used in natlang and/or conlangs?
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January 20th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 09:34 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "Q"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "Q" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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January 18th, 2012
Ethan O'Mara
 | 06:14 pm - Hello...........
Hey Guys I have just joined and i am working on a new language called 'Chevianios' i'll back back soon with more info. :)
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January 13th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 07:57 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "Q"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "Q."
( Read more... )
Current Mood: busy
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January 6th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 01:37 am - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "P"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "P" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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January 4th, 2012
qiihoskeh
 | 08:33 pm - getting stuck
It seems that whenever I start a new conlang lately, I have no serious trouble outlining the grammar, but get stuck when it comes time to specify the actual affixes, particles, and roots. Is there a trick to getting unstuck? Also, I've never had the ability to conculture, which limits the vocabulary of my older conlangs.
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December 30th, 2011
ysabetwordsmith
| 12:03 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "P"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "P."
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Current Mood: busy
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