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I am thinking of examples like these (in English and Vietnamese from Google Translate):
creationism: thuyết sáng tạo
create: tạo
creatable
creatively
When do you make it one word, and when do you ...
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In the latest episodes of The Rings of Power, several orcs say something in Black Speech, which is not translated in the subtitles. I had a brief look on the web, but cannot find anything about the ...
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I have basically landed on the desire to create a conlang with the following features (for now):
Only one syllable base words, which have the form cvc ccvc or cvcc (consonant and vowel). There are ...
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All of the SVO example sentences I see are very basic, such as this from Mini:
[subject] i [verb] a [object]
Tu i manja. You eat.
Man i bibe a vasa. Someone drinks water.
Bobi i ...
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In Toki pona, words are never inflected, and many words can act as a noun, verb or adjective in different contexts. The word "li" usually separates the subject from a predicate, and “e” goes before ...
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Has anyone tried to put one of Tolkien's Elvish languages Sindarin or Quenya into everyday conversational use? I can imagine fan groups doing this, but I can also imagine big problems with the ...
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I would like to translate Bismillah Ir-Rahmani Ir-Rahim into Toki Pona.
The parts I'm struggling with are the Rahma part, and the Raheem part, as they encompass similar but subtly different meanings ...
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Pandorum is a generation ship movie. Generation ships are a fairly big sub-genre of sci-fi where people live for many generations in a ship while travelling to a distant star.
The movie Pandorum did ...
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There have been many good writeups on Tonogenesis, i.e. how language acquire tones. But never have I seen such a writeup on the opposite phenomenon, which one might call Tonoexodus. Obviously, one way ...
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The question is sparked in part by an article about Phyrexian language on Polygon.
Imagine you have a text written in a language that nobody knows. You might have some loose idea what the text is ...
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How to translate to Black Speech phrase "Eye of the Sauron is always watching"? or more simply: "Sauron is always watching", or even more simply "Sauron is watching".
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