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06 Aug 2015, 8:41 am

Traditionally, cats are called moggies in Scotland.

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06 Aug 2015, 2:31 pm

^My dad is from London, and he used the word 'moggy' frequently too.

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07 Aug 2015, 5:34 am

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It's never appealed. I don't know why, it's a language without its own home country. It should appeal to me. But it doesn't.

Right you are. There is no Esperanto poetry, no theater plays, either. Artificial is artificial.

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07 Aug 2015, 8:30 am

I think Kip made up his own language.

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07 Aug 2015, 8:55 am

Kipian?

Balhatian?

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07 Aug 2015, 6:46 pm

^ both good suggestions

kraftiekortie wrote:

I think Kip made up his own language.

He did. He calls it heillese.

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07 Aug 2015, 6:52 pm

Kiprobalhato wrote:

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Interesting. Is zae meant to be either he, she or it, or is it meant to be neutral for people? In Swedish they have used han for he and hon for she, but now they have recently added hen, for a neutral word that refers to a person without saying anything about the person's gender.

good for sweden.

zae is a neutral pronoun for people.

or anything else referred to as "he" or 'she". the male is za and as for females, they're zie.

i have an equivalent of "it", tes (or tess). it works much the same as it's English translation, except for in sentences with "it is", where tes itself is used instead without the "it".
it's often 'compressed when it comprises a compound word with a grammatical suffix/prefix, like the acccusative prefix a for pronouns, shortenign it to ats/atz instead of "ates". contrast azae, azie.....

also with the possessive suffix 'rie", being shortened and reversed. tserie.

This is really great and complex! Thank you sharing some of your language with me, Kip

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07 Aug 2015, 8:54 pm

I can foresee a future when Kipian will be official. In the meantime, Portuguese and Finnish will do.

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13 Aug 2015, 5:38 am

^No. Both of them are incomprehensible to the average human.

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15 Aug 2015, 8:27 am

Haha, no argument there. As we all know, it's Norwegian that will do

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15 Aug 2015, 12:01 pm

What about that African 'click talk'?

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15 Aug 2015, 12:10 pm

^ That would be an interesting choice!

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23 Sep 2015, 4:10 am

I only know Xhosa with its clicks. It's in the SA anthem and Trevor Noah seems to be able to speak it.

It's so cool:

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28 Sep 2015, 6:21 am

Do you speak Kiwi?

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02 Oct 2015, 11:08 pm