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thinking about hypothetical verbal idiosyncrasies of Sibawshaka speakers who've learned English as an L2 I say so, this pipe wanna burst any! (The pipe is going to burst, you know!) There are a couple things going on in this example, but all of them make sense if you consider Sibawshaka grammar.
whenever y'all be mean to me, just know that this is who you're being mean to
a girl in a suit and bow tie stands in front of a window
ALT: a girl in a suit and bow tie stands in front of a window
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genetically modify an animal to have copper bones instead of whatever mineral it usually has
why dont we just grow minerals
I gave the cashier a 20 and he dead ass pulled out a strip of paper with "IOU" on it from the register and gave it to me as change, man fuck australia
cryšk: cwmk crņ /úmaka áran/ |want-1s sleep| "i want to sleep" estóra: غىس اسب اپىد بهرتپز [ˈʀiːs əsˈnæ əpeːð ˈbəɦræt‿poz] |bed onto RFL=1s turn-?=VOL-1s| "i want to go to sleep"
Been a little bit since I've conlung around here, so in Soc'ul': Secxeý seclaidzi 1>1-want 1>1-sleep sə˥kʃə˩ɰˀ sə˥kla˧jdzi˧ And a more recent one Wiera: Yáhpááʔdumũ fall.IND-DESID-V.EYE-1SG ("to sleep" being composite yáh-ʔ(V́)d- lit. "to fall with one's eye(s)") ᵈjáhpááˀɖùmũ̀
sy ĝt krk mŵty rw nxhyņ • ssņý cryškryšk hņ cygw nxhyņ cycy "while the krk can be many birds, we all think of one in specific" cny kyšý hny ŵkw rw hņ sy "you can see an image of it here"
is this enough?
tratar de hablar español es siempre una vergüenza a mi alma, pero sabes lo que dicen: "sin dolor la gente no puede hacerse mejor" o algo así
#estóraWODT نون <N•W•M> /nwæm/ vt. 1) dispose of something 2) bring out or give (to the demise of the speaker); rat out about, expose, steal, etc. 3) [of a projectile] take out game etym: *nʔäm, Ultimaly related to اىموت <ʔ•Y•M•W•N> /iːmoːn/ "dead"
i think that an interesting consequence of humans being highly intelligent social creatures is that like 95% of human culture is best described as language
reconsidering my approach with TBP, maybe a fixed area with story isn't quite what what would work. Maybe something a bit more randomised per play would work, and a bit more gamey mechanics. though i fucking hate godot, so I might try to just make a few utils in raylib before i decide on anything
things to tell conlangers: -let me teach you your conlang -how many morphemes do you know -what is "infant mortality rate" in your conlang -add gubuhboobooblub to your conlang -have you ever considered natlanging instead? -so you can speak Esperanto? -youre moreso an ugly fraud
i've been doing some code cleanup and thinking about map generation. i've always been very discontented with the angband style templated room approach to generating interiors, because i feel it doesn't correctly recognize the problem.
yall ever think horses are basically like cats but bigger
#estóraWOTR هاته <H•ʔ•T•H> /ˈhɑːtæ/ n. wing etym: uncertain, possible irregular clipping and derivation of رهت <R•H•T> /rə̆ˈhət/ "fly"
nothing bad has ever happened to me in my life, for every bad event, something equally as good happens to negate it