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Today is the last day to put in your presentation proposals for the 11th Language Creation Conference! Get them in!

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We're live in about 30 minutes to continue our work on Sylvan! Gonna have to work out constructions for passives and... antipassives? We'll see how that works out.

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Hello,

The way you worked on prepositions in Ndakaga and Sylvan reminded me of the correlatives in Esperanto for some reason. I just wanted to mention that in case it is useful or interesting to you. Idk how much you know about Esperanto though, so maybe it’s not really useful or interesting. Anyway I hope we get to work on verbs soon

Happy conlanging 🤘

Just in case it wasn’t clear I know correlatives and prepositions are different categories. But maybe you can apply something like it if it’s relevant Happy conlanging 🤟

That's kind of interesting. I'd be curious what you see that's similar. I suppose I do have a sort of systematic approach to how I do prepositions, but it's not a fixed table like the correlatives table.

Fun fact, we had an early episode called "Correlatives (mostly Indefinites)", which is where I learned that the correlatives table is a thing that mainly just makes sense in Esperanto. In natural languages the table would be so irregular that it's just not that useful.

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We are back in Faerie today, and we're going to start in on creating inflected prepositions! Join me in about 30 minutes! (8 AM Central Time)

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It's premiering RIGHT NOW!!!!

I was a guest on the Artifexian Christmas Quiz! Come listen as myself, @dedalvs, @quothalinguist, Biblaridion, Madeline James, and Artifexian himself all ask each other some unique trivia questions. You might just hear me sing! The premiere is tomorrow, January 3, at 1 PM Central Time (1900 UTC)!

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I was a guest on the Artifexian Christmas Quiz! Come listen as myself, @dedalvs, @quothalinguist, Biblaridion, Madeline James, and Artifexian himself all ask each other some unique trivia questions. You might just hear me sing! The premiere is tomorrow, January 3, at 1 PM Central Time (1900 UTC)!

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Get your Conlang Year Started!

Before the first day is up, I want to give a shoutout to Jessie Peterson's Conlang Year. If you missed it last year, you can jump in right now and start a new conlang this year! Just start with this entry and begin your conlang journey.

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I was a guest on the Theory Neutral Podcast talking about Peperkamp and Dupoux (2001), which discusses how speakers of different languages with different stress patterns interact with lexical stress in a foreign language. I'd recommend a lesson and a read of the papers mentioned in here for conlangers, because if you are looking to do any loanwords, this can give you a framework to decide whether the stress pattern from the source language is preserved.

* Peperkamp, Sharon, and Emmanuel Dupoux. “A Typological Study of Stress ‘Deafness.’” In Laboratory Phonology 7, edited by Carlos Gussenhoven and Natasha Warner, 203–40. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001

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It’s the last day of Lexember! I will likely continue to do featured word Shorts in 2025, probably on a weekly basis. But for now, here is a word for knowledge.

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The Okoki word for Lexember 30 is “‘u” [ʔu] (“to perch, to stand”), from *ʔux. It occurs with the non-past and third-person singular suffixes in the sentence “Khuu tãna ga ‘uanu” (“An owl perches on a branch”).

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A word for earth

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A word for freeze

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Lexember (December 28th)

Today's Valyrian glyph is mōzugon "to drink". It's a side view of someone drinking, but I don't quite remember how... But yeah, the word for "drunk" is derived from this, and the line is from a Game of Thrones episode with Melisandre and Thoros of Myr.

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A word for chest

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We are back in Faerie! Last time we started to give a name to Middle Fae, the language that existed before the split into four dialects. Today, in about 30 minutes, we'll work out some of the structures that will finalize that name and possibly move on to some other parts of the grammar.

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The Okoki word for Lexember 27 is the verb “su’u” (“to crack open”), as in the sentence “Tii isana su’udonu” (“A young squirrel cracked open an acorn”).

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A word for safety