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Languages of Ea: January 2013
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Conlanging, in plain English. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. À alíta na-lahéap vó'c ki'tyraisödàhlv'n! O year which-is-beginning, you may-it-make-happy! Technically, it's not the right time of the alíta. For this greeting, but in honor of our Earthly New Year, may it be a happy one! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is where I write about. My languages. At my other blog, mirexu.blogspot.com. I write posts in. Mërèchi, one of my languages. Other blogs about conlanging. View my complete profile.
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Languages of Ea: September 2010
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Conlanging, in plain English. Sunday, September 26, 2010. Occasional Word in Merechi: lóba. An important food word: to eat! I want to eat! I will eat parsnip(s). Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Occasional Word in Merechi: cúlü. Root vegetable native to the mërèchi. Is similar to our parsnips, which they call cúlü apatívi. They also think of carrots as a type of cúlü. Cúlüc càli jàni lómbasav'da, ní cúlünic fúi döshërükidàv'da ne döccípav'da. Collective plural of cúlü. So something like "varieties of cúlü.
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Languages of Ea: October 2010
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Conlanging, in plain English. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Occasional Word in Merechi: chàri. Bitter (to the taste). Third of four tastebud words (the mërèchi don't appear to have a separate word for umami. Refers to bitter tastes. Pëàman lielúcür hlífia'c chàri hlíp'të. People across the ocean drink a bitter drink. Don't eat bitter nuts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is where I write about. My languages. At my other blog, mirexu.blogspot.com. I write posts in. Mërèchi, one of my languages.
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Languages of Ea: Occasional Word in Merechi: nípa
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Conlanging, in plain English. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Occasional Word in Merechi: nípa. Today's word is nípa. A new one of which I will have in týat tèpsë-të-shóji. 30 days. The more psychologically significant number to the mërèchi would be a tèpsëty. Or twenty-day month. Let's hope I don't have this one quite that soon. This baby will be my àrma. I already have a pèhla. Who is my husband's àrma. The new baby will be his nína. Click for the explanation! Nípa'aë mèmacüm àgë dísöp'n. To be located; -p.
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Languages of Ea: chèmbel time again!
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Conlanging, in plain English. Monday, February 7, 2011. The five-day intercalary end-of-year chèmbel pëpícümnö. Has come around again, surprising me since I blogged about it already last time. Niftily, its beginning nearly coincided with Imbolc, the new moon, and Chinese New Year. Today was the fifth day, and tomorrow begins a new alíta. The 64th since recordkeeping began in December 1985. Um Anyone who knows me is laughing at this point.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I write posts in.
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Languages of Ea: New Year's greetings
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Conlanging, in plain English. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. À alíta na-lahéap vó'c ki'tyraisödàhlv'n! O year which-is-beginning, you may-it-make-happy! Technically, it's not the right time of the alíta. For this greeting, but in honor of our Earthly New Year, may it be a happy one! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog is where I write about. My languages. At my other blog, mirexu.blogspot.com. I write posts in. Mërèchi, one of my languages. Other blogs about conlanging. View my complete profile.
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Languages of Ea: November 2010
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Conlanging, in plain English. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Occasional Word in Merechi: nípa. Today's word is nípa. A new one of which I will have in týat tèpsë-të-shóji. 30 days. The more psychologically significant number to the mërèchi would be a tèpsëty. Or twenty-day month. Let's hope I don't have this one quite that soon. This baby will be my àrma. I already have a pèhla. Who is my husband's àrma. The new baby will be his nína. Click for the explanation! Nípa'aë mèmacüm àgë dísöp'n. To be located; -p.
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Languages of Ea: February 2011
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Conlanging, in plain English. Monday, February 7, 2011. The five-day intercalary end-of-year chèmbel pëpícümnö. Has come around again, surprising me since I blogged about it already last time. Niftily, its beginning nearly coincided with Imbolc, the new moon, and Chinese New Year. Today was the fifth day, and tomorrow begins a new alíta. The 64th since recordkeeping began in December 1985. Um Anyone who knows me is laughing at this point.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is where I write about.
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Languages of Ea: February 2010
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Conlanging, in plain English. Sunday, February 7, 2010. All, every, each. I have decided on a simple scheme for non-numeric quantifiers in Mirexu. It is not the degrees of quantification that I was concerned with. Whether there will be more degrees than "all, none, some" . "enough"? I can leave till later. The distinction that I needed to figure out how to capture was distributionality. In English, it is the difference between "all" and "each" or "every". Now what could be the distributive of "none"?
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Languages of Ea: August 2007
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Conlanging, in plain English. Thursday, August 23, 2007. Thoughts on the seasons. The original seven-season cycle which interacts dynamically with the mërèchi calendar was as follows:. Flower and leaf of what, exactly? So here is a set of seven I am contemplating replacing them with, to better spread out the seasons across my Zone 6 year:. Green (when most of the trees begin to look green from a distance). Gold (when the leaves turn). Putting the two together, I decided that languages in the mërèchi lang...