Conlangers

After forming each sentence in your head, you consider it as a stream of syllables, map every syllable to a byte sequence, and OTR-encrypt it before converting it back into syllables and saying that near-gibberish to the person who you are talking to.

Just in case the NSA is listening, you know.

Exchanging the private keys initially should be done by tongue movements when you French kiss someone. This means that everyone has to have French kissed at least once before they can talk to each other.

Make a conlang where the morphemes are arranged to always be closer to the accusative than the roots they are attached to, or “Object Oriented,” if you will.

So an unmarked sentence might look like

Amnam-nom nayim-voib ak-adem-ak
Cookie-SUBJ. please-PRES.SING. OBJ-scholar-OBJ
The cookie pleases the scholar.

But one where the object is fronted to topicalize it looks like:

Ak-eidi-ak nom-orsup voib-poinde
OBJ-archeologist-OBJ SUBJ-cook PRES.SING-excommunicate
It is the ARCHEOLOGIST that the cook is excommunicating

Mark the polarity of your sentence on the nouns in core cases. This means that you express yes/no on the nominative and accusative cases. The subject is used for opinions, and the objective is for facts.

Huver-mag-yo kipu-ken sotiri

Hoover-Lord-nom.pos pangolin-acc.pos pet

Lord Hoover pets the pangolin, I know this is a fact.

Huver-mag-nit kipu-lo sotiri

Hoover-Lord-nom.neg pangolin-acc.neg pet

Lord Hoover does not pet the pangolin, I know this as a fact.

Huver-mag-yo kipu-lo sotiri

Hoover-Lord-nom.pos pangolin-acc.neg pet

There is no real reason to think that Lord Hoover pets the pangolin, but my opinion is that he does.

Huver-mag-nit kipu-ken sotiri

Hoover-Lord-nom.neg pangolin-acc.pos pet

There is reason to think that Lord Hoover actually pets the pangolin, but I hold that he doesn’t.

Now whatever subjective truth or objective falsities that you want to express, you can. On the subjects and objects, respectively.

A conlang that is really Middle English, but every third vowel is replaced by an excessively loud burp.

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Hi everyone,

Sorry for the last two empty posts. Somehow, the IFTTT recipe that I use to copy my Tumblr Moten Word for the Day posts to Blogger is not working correctly. I'm looking into it and hopefully I'll be able to solve the issue quickly (we'll see when the next Word for the Day post goes online...).

In the interim, I've gone back and updated the empty posts with the correct contents. You can view them here and here

Thank you all for your understanding. I'm doing my best to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the last two empty posts. Somehow, the IFTTT recipe that I use to copy my Tumblr Moten Word for the Day posts to Blogger is not working correctly. I'm looking into it and hopefully I'll be able to solve the issue quickly (we'll see when the next Word for the Day post goes online...).

In the interim, I've gone back and updated the empty posts with the correct contents. You can view them here and here

Thank you all for your understanding. I'm doing my best to ensure it doesn't happen again.

kirolki = triangle (shape) (noun) (some things Google found for "kirolki": a very rare term; user names; appears on a number of Polish websites; in Basque similar kirol means sport; in Finnish somewhat similar kirota means to curse, swear)

Word derivation for "triangle" :
Basque = hiruki, Finnish = kolmio
Miresua = kirolki

Another Basque word for triangle is triangelu.

Both the Basque word and the Finnish word appear to be derived from their language's word for three. (Three in Basque is hiru, three in Finnish is kolme.) My Miresua word for triangle somewhat resembles the Miresua word for three, kire.

The word triangle doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-glass.

• With the copula 'to be', expresses to be x-like or x-ish.
• With the verb 'to have' and no object case marking on the adjective, it marks 'to be reputed to be' (alternatively, no articles - in case that is the way adjectives normally are marked when they are heads of NPs, i.e. in phrases comparable to 'the little one')
• with the verb 'to have' and object case marking (or articles, or whichever method the language uses), the phrase would simply mean 'to have a so-and-so-ish one/one reputed to be so-and-so'

William McGregor's Typology of Ergativity. Well worth reading. (Thanks to Vardelm for linking it in a thread on the ZBB.)