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08 Feb 2009, 3:45 pm

LostInEmulation wrote:
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A synonym would be: AstrayInTakingafter (English speakers, correct me!)

Or AstrayInImitation :)

By the way, what language is that in your signature. It looks interesting.


The first paragraph hopefully in English, the second is in a conlang, I created. It means: A dream only exists until you reach it. It becomes something trivial after that.

I'd love to write a conlang but I don't understand language well enough. I'd also find it rather disatisfying in the end though - no one else would be able to speak/write it!


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08 Feb 2009, 4:38 pm

Tallyman also means a debt collector: So give me all your money :twisted:


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09 Feb 2009, 12:43 am

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09 Feb 2009, 2:57 am

TallyMan wrote:
Tallyman also means a debt collector: So give me all your money :twisted:


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09 Feb 2009, 3:06 am

Irateitude

Opposite: Gladitude


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09 Feb 2009, 1:19 pm

Greyhound wrote:
I'd love to write a conlang but I don't understand language well enough. I'd also find it rather disatisfying in the end though - no one else would be able to speak/write it!


You do not need much knowledge to start. I didn't and had to search whenever problems arose. The fun about it is that it is an excercise in beauty (oh my $randomdeity, that sounds pretentious) -- and that you can express things which can not be expressed in English or whatever language you happen to be native speaker of. Like my conlang has many more forms for comparison including one which indicates that something fits the adjective more even though none of the compared entities actually fitted the description if used alone. An example: Jasu has 2 dollars, Jenve 2 dollars and 30 Cents. No one of them is rich but Jenvi is `richer' than Jasu.


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09 Feb 2009, 1:50 pm

LostInEmulation wrote:
Like my conlang has many more forms for comparison including one which indicates that something fits the adjective more even though none of the compared entities actually fitted the description if used alone. An example: Jasu has 2 dollars, Jenve 2 dollars and 30 Cents. No one of them is rich but Jenvi is `richer' than Jasu.

But...you can do that in English. I don't understand, sorry :? :)


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09 Feb 2009, 1:51 pm

As for information on conlanging, which I'm starting as a hobby myself, here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Language

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Conlang

http://www.zompist.com/kitgram.html


As for a synonymous statement of my username:

"Non sum psittacus"

Which is Latin for "I am not [a] parrot".



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09 Feb 2009, 2:24 pm

Synonym: celestial sphere

Antonym: earth


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09 Feb 2009, 2:35 pm

Sora wrote:
Synonym: celestial sphere

Antonym: earth


What language is your username in?



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09 Feb 2009, 3:50 pm

Lliencam_salgoud for my mirror self.

Hmm...could anyone pm me with their ideas
on just how my Imperial Terran self would work,
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10 Feb 2009, 12:40 am

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10 Feb 2009, 1:44 am

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10 Feb 2009, 1:52 pm

Greyhound wrote:
LostInEmulation wrote:
Like my conlang has many more forms for comparison including one which indicates that something fits the adjective more even though none of the compared entities actually fitted the description if used alone. An example: Jasu has 2 dollars, Jenve 2 dollars and 30 Cents. No one of them is rich but Jenvi is `richer' than Jasu.

But...you can do that in English. I don't understand, sorry :? :)


Not as easily: "Jenvi mi'eha alna Jasu" (if at least Jenvi is rich) vs. "Jenvi mi'eha alsina Jasu" (is none of them is).


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11 Feb 2009, 12:07 am

Flecksofher :P



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