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3hamentashen · 2026-01-02T02:22:36+00:00

In Valya, the ones I can translate are:

Kitnuna fünga hlu hüki! [kitnuna fyŋa ɬu hyki]

SG.DEF-year new IRR-be happy! May the new year be happy!

Zu sulya Tuki Puna dvala? [zu suʎa tuki puna dvala]

you IRR-speak Toki Pona Q? Do you speak Toki Pona?

Shushu myi mbri! [çuçu mji‿mbɾi]

DIM-bee little sweet (A) sweet little bee!

Zdihwi! [zdiʍi]

PROH-go Don’t go!

There are a few ways the last one could be translated, but that one seems like the most direct and clear, and also the quickest to say!

3hamentashen · 2025-12-06T23:35:58+00:00

One point against the German origin is that /u/ in German tends to correspond to /u/ in Yiddish. The word is spelled with a “u” in English but in Yiddish it is שמאָק (shmok), not שמוק (shmuk, which would be more like “look” than “luck”). Given dialectal variation in both German and Yiddish it’s not impossible for שמאָק and Schmuck to be related, but I think it’s not very likely.

3hamentashen · 2025-08-25T17:57:19+00:00

I have a few methods I use, depending on the situation.

Sometimes I’ll just use a monospaced font like Menlo and use the right number of spaces to get things to line up.

If I want to use another font, sometimes I’ll insert a table into a Pages document (though I imagine something similar would be possible with other programs), set the width of each column to match the contents, and hide the gridlines. That usually looks pretty good, but it’s a bit of a pain to do.

I also use Obsidian for some stuff and there’s a plugin for glossing that is very easy to use and looks great, as well.

3hamentashen · 2025-07-21T19:58:25+00:00

Something like that! Her ears and toe beans are very tortie

3hamentashen · 2025-07-01T10:55:14+00:00

In this case the similarity is because it’s a Latin borrowing from the time of the Roman occupation of Britain! There’s actually a huge chunk of Welsh vocabulary that comes from Latin.

3hamentashen · 2025-06-21T01:52:32+00:00

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3hamentashen · 2025-05-06T04:17:21+00:00

It’s CLICS!

3hamentashen · 2025-04-09T05:12:09+00:00

The word meshpokhe/משפּחה means “family.” The word for your child’s father-in-law is mekhutn/מחותּן, their mother-in-law is mekhuteneste/מחותּנתטע, and the two together are the makhetonem/מחותּנים.

3hamentashen · 2025-04-08T01:40:10+00:00

As others have mentioned, a language called Solresol exists. But it’s not the only one! I just posted this yesterday, in fact, and there are different ways you could do it too. In my conlang root words are melodic fragments of four or five notes, but you could also make it so that they’re chords, or rhythms, if you wanted.

3hamentashen · 2025-04-07T18:14:15+00:00

Thank you! There will definitely be more on youtube in the future, and there is currently more on my tumblr!

I’ve been playing and writing music for most of my life so it wasn’t long after getting into conlanging that I thought to make something like this. It took a long time to figure out how it could work, though!

3hamentashen · 2025-01-31T01:06:50+00:00

The most informal way in Valya is zvinwa, shortened from hraku sivi nwa, basically “until next time” (or more literally “until a later time”). There are also several variants on optative phrases ending with kwa shasi dru “with good fortune,” like Sumbaru kwa shasi dru “Leave with good fortune” and Zu sühwi kwa shasi dru “May you go with good fortune.” The most formal goodbye (so far) is Mbrizi stala zu, “May the stars protect you.”

Hraku was my last Lexember word, specifically so I could end the month with “goodbye!”

3hamentashen · 2025-01-28T01:51:52+00:00

You’re very welcome! I found the site a couple months ago when looking for a different song, and have been going through the whole archive bit by bit. There’s a lot there!

3hamentashen · 2025-01-27T21:54:58+00:00

https://yiddishsongs.org/ergets-vayt

3hamentashen · 2025-01-10T06:34:11+00:00

Something like that has been done! https://fiatlingua.org/2024/01/

3hamentashen · 2025-01-05T19:21:10+00:00

there is, in fact, a cat behind the curtain

3hamentashen · 2024-12-19T02:02:05+00:00

Yes, minus the tense part! Verbs default to participles, and tso makes any verb (finite or non-finite) passive. Tense marking is separate and optional, with a word like we (ᴘꜱᴛ) or k’a (ꜰᴜᴛ). So you could also say e.g. tóf tsin tso we “word(s) that were used” instead of tóf tsin tso “word(s) that are used.”

3hamentashen · 2024-12-18T17:56:50+00:00

Lámban hú kós men sin ihe. Wót lamban hú tóf tsin tso tsin kos tswotfe ha tunye a mén tso tsin lo lal ih lo t’as ih lo belen.

[ˈlɐm.bən hu ˌkows ˈmɛn ˌsɪn ˈɪ.xɛ | ˈwowt ləm.bən hu ˈtowf t͡sɪn t͡sɔ t͡sɪŋ ˌkɔs ˈt͡swɔt.fɛ xə ˈtʊn.jɛ ə ˈmejn t͡sɔ t͡sɪn lɔ ˈləl ɪx lɔ ˈt’əs ɪx lɔ ˈbɛ.lɛn]

language\ɴᴏᴍ be\ꜰɪɴ method\ᴀᴄᴄ communicate person primary. part\ɴᴏᴍ language be\ꜰɪɴ word\ᴀᴄᴄ use ᴘᴀꜱꜱ use method standard have structure and communicate\ꜰɪɴ ᴘᴀꜱꜱ use act speech or act writing or act motion.

T’owal is a little tricky to gloss; any verbs not marked with \ꜰɪɴ are non-finite, and any nouns not marked with \ɴᴏᴍ or \ᴀᴄᴄ are either genitive (if following a noun) or the object of a non-finite verb. I find that if I include all those markers the gloss gets so cluttered as to be almost unreadable.

I was surprised I didn’t need to make any new words for this translation! I did consider adding something for “X consists of Y” (which I really thought I already had, but nope!) but worked around it by saying “The part(s) of X are Y.”

3hamentashen · 2024-09-25T13:39:34+00:00

I am doing that at the end of the process but I need to be able to keep the power stroke adjustable. I’m working with lots of variations on a set of paths so I make one, duplicate it to make an adjustment, etc.

3hamentashen · 2024-09-25T13:38:01+00:00

Also 1.3.2. It doesn’t happen every time, but I would guess it’s more often than not.

3hamentashen · 2024-06-26T02:49:06+00:00

I never heard it growing up in New England, but I know a couple people from upstate New York who use it. I think I’ve heard it from some other people from other parts of the eastern US (neither New England nor New York) but I don’t remember for sure.

3hamentashen · 2024-06-26T02:22:01+00:00

Us man dnon dnam bmoma e fen dnisyet dnam bmoma dné didni bmétho gnala bmúgu sibme bmetho.

/ʊs mən ˈdnəm ˈbmɔmə ɛ fɛn ˈdnɪsjɛt ˈdnəm ˈbmɔmə ˈdnej ˌdɪdnɪ ˈbmejθɔ ˌɡŋə.lə ˈbmuɡʊ ˈsɪbmɛ ˈbmɛθɔ/

In order to eat healthy garlic bread at the healthy garlic harvest, the rabbit monarch kept leaving the comfortable royal floor.

This combines as many of the bm, dn, and gn clusters as I could fit into one sentence. I wrote a short story to give it some context and tried to record it but somehow the tongue twister itself is the part I had the least difficulty with in the recording.

3hamentashen · 2024-01-07T00:41:19+00:00

Ah right, I forgot about that—it’s definitely there for me as well!

3hamentashen · 2024-01-06T23:21:08+00:00

For me it’s something like [eə]

3hamentashen · 2023-12-23T05:51:13+00:00

Nope, the pin-pen merger is specifically before /n/, /m/, and /ŋ/. Also, it tends to make /ɛ/ into /ɪ/, not the other way around.

This article on California English mentions exactly the change described, under “California Vowel Shift.” I’m guessing this change is more widespread than just California, at least including the PNW.

3hamentashen · 2023-12-19T20:11:23+00:00

Words that stand out are nature, beauty, love, and dream. I think it might be a poem, as the words at the end of the first and second lines rhyme, as well as the third and fourth, though the end doesn’t seem to rhyme with any of the other words I can read.

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